TSR Poker Society

Just downloaded real Money pokerstars and playing a really cheap tournament, lets see how it goes!


I almost always place in the play money tournaments but I assume real money will have better players

I find it's surprisingly tight even at ridiculously irrelevant money. The play is still pretty tight in $1 buy-in.

You've made me want to play one now so I might encounter you

Yeah I've noticed that too, that's why I absolutely despise real money cash games

Good luck if you do

how did you do?

I did a $1.50 sit and go and finished 3rd for $4.75 (from 18)

Just did a $1.50 sit and go, one table, finishing third for $2.30. It took me an hour to earn 80 cents.

Not too great haha did a couple of tourneys with 180 people playing, didn't manage to place in the top 27 although my excuse is that I had trash hands constantly hahah.

Made my money back slowly but surely on the micro stakes cash games.

That's the frustrating thing I find about it, take so much time to earn very little. I want to get to the stage where I obviously increase my bankroll. play at slightly higher tables and even multi-table at some point.

Just did a $1.50 sit and go, one table, finishing third for $2.30. It took me an hour to earn 80 cents.

Yeah my thing is I'm really busy writing a dissertation at the moment so I only really have time to play mini turbo games in the evening.

You'll get there. What levels are you playing? If you buy in for $10 on the $0.05/10 tables all you have to do is double up and all of a sudden you're getting somewhere.

Glad to see there is a Poker society here. I'm starting my uni course in September so I registered here today. I'm still learning poker and I hope to improve my game and play some live games (I have so far played mostly online).

Guess who learnt to play poker yesterday?! ...This Guy!


I downloaded Zynga and I'm loving it. Even though I'm really bad! lol.

What sort of study material should I be processing to become an awesome player?

Good video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvdvGlOkUoE&list=PLkb2eSKwRSqc9Ul84HnsaIO0sS3Fwgzmy

This book is good but very dense in parts: http://www.pokerbooks.lt/books/en/05_01_en.pdf

Thanks man! That playlist looks great!

Woah. Is that book all about No-Limit? I will definitely read it!

Do you guys play for real money? I don't think i'm at that stage yet unfortunately, I would probably end up broke lol

Yeah it's about no-limit

You don't need to risk much money. You can play for microstakes online, for instance $2 buy-in with $0.01 and $0.02 blinds cash, or similarly cheap tournaments. It's sometimes possible to find relatively cheap (e.g. £10, 15), and sometimes even free-to-enter, live tournaments at casinos, too, so you don't necessarily need to put lots of cash at risk to practise live poker.