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When you play poker, you’re going to make the most money when you play against bad players. For this reason, you should start playing at Cake Poker.
I have just started playing on Cake and the games are soft and the players are bad. So I like it.
3 reasons why you should play at Cake Poker:
1. The players are bad:
Cake Poker Review - Cake has soft games
In this screenshot, you can see a player limping and then calling a 4x big blind raise with K5o and then calling an allin bet on a 789 flop. I guess he was hoping for a runner runner flush or to hit his gutshot.
Plays like this are not uncommon playing on this site.
2. The games are good.
Cake Poker tournament review
Here’s a screenshot of the payouts for a sit n go single table tournament. It’s a $9 buyin and it’s 10 players and 4 get paid. You don’t have too many poker sites that offer to pay 40% of the field in a SNG.
If you are tight and patient, you should have no problem making the money in this kind of game. They run these SNGs from the lowest limits – $5 – all the way to the highest limits at $470.
3. Great way to build a poker bankroll.
With the SNG payout structure shown above and the bad players on this site, you can build a poker bankroll and by playing tight and aggressive. You can sit back and just wait for the bad players to bust each other and you make the money by playing only a select few hands and just doubling up or not even winning a hand and just taking the blinds as the levels go up.
If you want to make some money, I would recommend you start playing at Cake Poker. Take advantage of their 100% Deposit Bonus up to $500 now. Cake Poker is a US Friendly poker room.
Thanks for reading.
Good luck at the tables!
-Adam
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Depending on how many poker players you talk to, you will get several different answers to how much patience you need to play winning poker.
It depends on the game you are playing – SNG, MTT, Cash games.
And then it depends on if you are playing a turbo SNG or MTT to how patient you can be.
It depends on your style of play as well.
If you are comfortable waiting for your big hands kind of like Phil Helmuth and waiting for the right situation to put your chips in play, you may blind down so many chips that when you finally put your chips in late in a tournament, the blinds may be forced to call you with inferior hands and stand a decent chance to beat your hand range. And then you’ll be out and your patience will have been wasted.
But in this same situation if you are playing a cash game, you can open up 4 tables and just wait for good quality starting hands and wait and wait and wait until you get those hands and play them aggressively and more often than not, you will make money. And your patience will have been rewarded.
However, if the cash game players are paying attention to how few hands you are playing they may easily fold hands like AQ to your raise but happily call your raises in position with suited connectors or medium pairs that stand to do well against your big hands that you may have trouble letting go because you waited so long for your big hands and you don’t want to let them go easily.
So like most things in poker, it depends!
Good luck at the tables.
-A
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If you want to play good poker and make money playing poker, you need to learn how to minimize how many mistakes you make – be it a cash game, sit n go, or multi table tournament. The person who makes the fewest mistakes has a better chance to make the most money than the one who makes several mistakes throughout a cash game session, sng, or mtt.
You can minimize your mistakes by playing fewer hands to start with. The fewer marginal hands you decide to play, the easier your decisions will be when your chips are on the line and you flop top pair with your K6s or similar.
You can make better decisions when you are rested. I just started a cash game session today and quit after only 32 hands because I didn’t realize how tired I really was. I had spent most of the day running errands with my girlfriend and we were out in the sun and that wore me out. Trying to play good poker after a long day is not one of the better decisions to end the day.
If you still have to play poker after a stressful day at work and you just want to blow off some steam, drop down a level or two so if you do happen to make a bunch of mistakes, the financial consequences won’t be so bad when you come back to your sense and get some much needed sleep.
Now I’m tired and going to bed.
Good luck at the tables.
-A
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This month has been up and down. I’ve been playing more cash games due to my lackluster results of playing MTTs. I really need to control my emotions and stop going on tilt so much playing cash games. The players are really bad and when they suckout over and over again it really gets me off my game.
This past Saturday I played 2 sessions of cash. In the first session, I was 4 tabling and lost about $120 playing .25/.50 NL. I took a break to eat and then fired up the tables again.
I won all my money back and more in less than 10 mins of sitting down. I resucked out against a guy who flopped trip queens when I had pocket kings when the river brought my third king. There was another guy along for the ride who couldn’t fold 99 on a Q high flop so I tripled up on that hand.
And then it was downhill from there.
The bad thing about playing online poker is that you get to see more hands in a shorter period of time and the good thing about playing online poker is you get to see more hands in a shorter period of time. This works well when you’re playing good and winning but not so good when you are playing bad or on tilt.
I lost about 6 buyins after being up 3 buyins in less than 10 mins. You cannot quit while you’re running good and winning so that’s why I did not leave after I had recovered my losses.
That’s poker.
-Adam
How to play poker July 21, 2008
