One thing that confuses me so much is how many people are actually winning at poker ‘professionally’?

I had a little think and I believe there is only 1 way to win from playing poker.

Have a system

I absolutely love systems, it’s part of my personality.

One of the very few poker players I respect a lot is Azimut. He built up a sytem of playing poker with volume so much that he can fairly accurately predict how much he will make in a year. He does not claim to be a great player but he is probably making a lot more money than players who are better than him.

I hate to see good players being staked. It just really doesn’t make sense to me. They are either just not that good, have a fear of losing or don’t have a system.

How can any good player not play with their own money? Where does the money go that is won? The money seems to leak away and the player can’t reinvest. They turn to a backer and end up in an endless circle because the majority of winnings go to the backer. You’re in debt and the backer owns your life. In my eyes this is not winning.

Players that get backed, try to be great at the game and rise through the stakes but never really win. Those with a system, do the same thing over and over and get consistent, predictable results.

Stop trying to be so fucking great at poker and get a system.

 

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Goals For 2011

8 January, 2011

in General

2010 seems to have gone so fast so maybe that means it has been a good year i’m not sure. Consciously thinking about it thought, it seems to have been uneventful. The main highlight being my 4 week trek in America.

I had been on a break from poker for most of the start of 2010 and then I decided to a binions classic in Vegas which I managed to bink for shy of $5k. So that shows how beneficial a break from poker can be because you are playing with a fresh mind and determined to prove that you have ‘still got it’. However, despite a pretty decent win, instead of giving confidence to play more I decided that I officially retire from poker. I decided that I would play 1 more decent tourney, the G Club championships in Newcastle on 10th July just to give me the reassurance that it would be the right decision. [click to continue…]

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The Problem With Adding Money To Poker Tournaments

December 13, 2010

All of a sudden there has been a ridiculous amount of money being added to poker tournaments in the UK and very recently in Newcastle. It is a bit of a concern to me that this is going to have some long term problems. I’ve always been in massive favour of having poker tournaments with guarantees instead [...]

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Songs Of The Month: October 2010

October 31, 2010

I’m bringing back my songs of the week that I used to run although not update very often so this time i’m just posting a collection of music that i’ve been listening to for the month. First in is Pixie Lott with new single Brown Arrow. She is amazingly beautiful and very talented too. Next [...]

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What Do You Want To Read From Me?

October 10, 2010

I really love writing, giving advice and solving problems but being motivated to do something is a huge problem I have. So i’m looking for a bit of guidance for this blog and at least I can get a few more posts flowing. It’s a well known fact that i’ve retried from poker now but I still [...]

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2010 And Beyond

August 15, 2010

Well another long time since my last post and even longer time since I done any sort of personal update and since it’s pretty much the end of summer it seemed worthy of update. I’ve mentioned this previously that I probably wasn’t going to update often because i’ve stopped playing poker and so don’t really [...]

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