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How could I have done better? Criticism welcome.

I only watched the first few hands, but your bets are too small when you hit top pair or better. Your min bets invite players to keep playing and hit a lucky turn or river.

In hand 24 you fold TT with 549 on the board and a half pot size bet from the aggressor. Hmmm...

Just calling with AK preflop is also bad.

First hand 78s you folded this is a good calling hand to see the flop for cheap, because you can get a straight and or a flush.
But then second hand you play k10o utg this is a easy fold in a full ring of players.
Pocket 66 is a good hand to see a flop for cheap and see if you can hit a set. Sneaky hand but don't want to invest.
Q9o is a fold.
1010 pocket tens in utg+1 postion you have to raise and raise a good amount 6 times the blinds if aggressive players at the table more. Narrow out the play field to give yourself a better fighting chance. Also you have a good hand invest in it make money. Then you flopped the nuts with 10c5c6s, you needed to bet aggressive 2/3 pot, then keep doing that till all the money is in by the river. You were in a multi way pot and didn't bet. You don't make money playing slow in low stakes games.
Ako needs to be played like pocket 10s.
Your big hand was pocket 33s you did good just calling and getting in cheap then when you hit your 3 on the turn giving you a boat, your oppent bet min and you reraised him min, then he went all in and you called.
When he bet the first time you need to think does he have a bigger full house does he have 10 9, 99, 10 3, 9 3, but with a check then a min bet you can less that worrie and through some math and having blockers pocket threes in our hand, we probably want to get our money in. Bet big you only got it all in because your oppent went all in with a over bet.
I would like to know what your thought process was during this hand like did you know you had him beat or was it like a I have to call and I'm beat.
Then it looks like you just fold your way to 2nd place not really winning or losing just passive playstyle to try and "grind it out?".
If you liked to get better I would study and watch videos on, suited connectors your first hand of the game. Playing AK playing pocket pairs, a hand chart to know what to fold in what position. I would study PFR and VPIP that helps me alot. And simple poker math that everybody has to know like the 2,4 rule. Johnathan little is a get start, blackrain79 has shorts that are fast like minute long video. And go to forums and internet sites it's all free. Books.
Hope this help if you would like me to go into more deep about a specific hand ever I'm always interested in discussion.

Hi nyx, You may want to check this players record before using they're advice.

player?p=10741

Huckleberry wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 1:56 am Hi nyx, You may want to check this players record before using they're advice.

player?p=10741

This is fake poker, without money. Money is how we keep score in poker. It's how we know if we are a winning or losing player and how others know to. Thats the main problem. no matter what you do on his site it's not going to be a real game.
In a cash game u want bingo players, u want easy games, u want to make money. So if one of the main parts of the game that makes it work is gone the games not going to be played right or enjoyed right. Even children understand this betting with candy, penny's, etc.
But unless someone reading this has played a lot of cash games they won't even realize that a free game and 0.01/0.02 cent games are so widely different.
Biggest tournament I won, I got $600 for 1st. Most cash in one night was $700 dollars for 8 hours. At yhe end of this year I'll be profit of $3000. So you guys kinda know where I'm at with the poker world.
I have no skin in this site I'm just saying what I think.

Huckleberry wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 1:56 am Hi nyx, You may want to check this players record before using they're advice.

player?p=10741

Hi nyx, You may want to check huckleberry record before using his advice player?p=82

Sterling800 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 5:41 am Your big hand was pocket 33s you did good just calling and getting in cheap then when you hit your 3 on the turn giving you a boat, your oppent bet min and you reraised him min, then he went all in and you called.
When he bet the first time you need to think does he have a bigger full house does he have 10 9, 99, 10 3, 9 3, but with a check then a min bet you can less that worrie and through some math and having blockers pocket threes in our hand, we probably want to get our money in. Bet big you only got it all in because your oppent went all in with a over bet.
I would like to know what your thought process was during this hand like did you know you had him beat or was it like a I have to call and I'm beat.

Yeah at that point I would have just thought "ok full house lessgo" I mean I suppose he could have had a quad but not likely. I've got two 3s already so the chance of him holding a T3 to make a better full house would be slim. I've played a few more games since then but I don't think my calculation would be different now.

If you liked to get better I would study and watch videos on, suited connectors your first hand of the game. Playing AK playing pocket pairs, a hand chart to know what to fold in what position. I would study PFR and VPIP that helps me alot. And simple poker math that everybody has to know like the 2,4 rule. Johnathan little is a get start, blackrain79 has shorts that are fast like minute long video. And go to forums and internet sites it's all free. Books.
Hope this help if you would like me to go into more deep about a specific hand ever I'm always interested in discussion.

Definitely looking to get better in 2025. I'm fairly new to the game but I want to be improving every game I play, learning something new. Really everything I've learnt so far is just picked up from playing a lot of hands on pokerth and maybe watching some games on youtube. I'm really just playing on instinct and intuition. I've just started watching Jonathan Little's channel, currently going through the pre-flop strategy playlist.

Thanks for the feedback I will be going over the game again and studying it against your comments.

Sterling800 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 3:04 am

Huckleberry wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 1:56 am Hi nyx, You may want to check this players record before using they're advice.

player?p=10741

This is fake poker, without money. Money is how we keep score in poker. It's how we know if we are a winning or losing player and how others know to. Thats the main problem. no matter what you do on his site it's not going to be a real game.
In a cash game u want bingo players, u want easy games, u want to make money. So if one of the main parts of the game that makes it work is gone the games not going to be played right or enjoyed right. Even children understand this betting with candy, penny's, etc.
But unless someone reading this has played a lot of cash games they won't even realize that a free game and 0.01/0.02 cent games are so widely different.
Biggest tournament I won, I got $600 for 1st. Most cash in one night was $700 dollars for 8 hours. At yhe end of this year I'll be profit of $3000. So you guys kinda know where I'm at with the poker world.
I have no skin in this site I'm just saying what I think.

My thinking is if I can crush pokerth.net then I should be ready to move onto live games in the real world. Saying that I watch some high stakes games on the tube and I do scratch my head thinking I would never play some of the hands these so called pros do. I don't know, still learning.

Even if you're not playing for money, people are still playing to win on here, that should count for something.

nyx wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 5:18 pm

Sterling800 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 3:04 am

Huckleberry wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 1:56 am Hi nyx, You may want to check this players record before using they're advice.

player?p=10741

This is fake poker, without money. Money is how we keep score in poker. It's how we know if we are a winning or losing player and how others know to. Thats the main problem. no matter what you do on his site it's not going to be a real game.
In a cash game u want bingo players, u want easy games, u want to make money. So if one of the main parts of the game that makes it work is gone the games not going to be played right or enjoyed right. Even children understand this betting with candy, penny's, etc.
But unless someone reading this has played a lot of cash games they won't even realize that a free game and 0.01/0.02 cent games are so widely different.
Biggest tournament I won, I got $600 for 1st. Most cash in one night was $700 dollars for 8 hours. At yhe end of this year I'll be profit of $3000. So you guys kinda know where I'm at with the poker world.
I have no skin in this site I'm just saying what I think.

My thinking is if I can crush pokerth.net then I should be ready to move onto live games in the real world. Saying that I watch some high stakes games on the tube and I do scratch my head thinking I would never play some of the hands these so called pros do. I don't know, still learning.

Even if you're not playing for money, people are still playing to win on here, that should count for something.

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As part of my New Year’s resolutions, I’ve decided to leave pokerth. I’ve learned what I could here, but the experience has run its course. The community is often rude and lacks the understanding or discipline required in real cash poker games, which undermines the value of the practice. It’s time to move on to environments that better reflect the skill, stakes, and growth I’m looking for in poker. Best of luck to everyone, but I’m off to focus on more meaningful pursuits.