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Message: [QUOTE="CallMeBaby, post: 519811, member: 18869"] [b]my perspective on this for what it's worth[/b] I think any member of CC should be allowed to use the forum to ask questions that pertain to poker. It's up to the individual whether they take the time to read them and respond if they wish. Having said that I know where Aliengenius is coming from with his slight because there is a young breed of nouveau poker players out there who belittle all who don't sit with the maximum stakes at tables. (No offense to the author meant here). As a novice player (and I mean that more in a time sense than in a skill sense) I sit at stakes that I can afford to lose at. These are mostly low stakes (.25/.50) because I don't have a steady income as yet. After Christmas /birthday cash gifts and after I place in good money at tournies, I have played $2/$4 dollar NL and Limit Holdem and left with a profit but only if I sat with the Max stack. Now if only I could keep from spending my pokermoney on other things then I might be able to afford to keep playing those stakes. When I sit with the Minimum stack at those tables, however, I generally wind up losing because you have a limited time to get into the game before the blinds eat you down and the high stackers will pressure you out of the pot regularly - when I have stood up to the pressure some ninny lucks out at the river having only risked 1/5 of their stack while it cost me all mine. So that's when I move back down to lower stakes so I can afford to sit with max stack. I recently went on an epic ski trip to Whistler, however, from which I have yet to recover financially (and physically). That propelled me to the micro tables - which I really don't like because you can't bluff cuz they call everything there. So that's when I started playing multi-tables and pretty well folding everything that wasn't a monster. Because it takes a lot of hands at those stakes to get 1500 hands I, inadvertently put myself into the category of generating more bonuses than rake for the site - so they took all my bonus money AND kept my deposit as well. (I had foolishly, used my rent money for a reload bonus - which I felt I was in no danger of losing at penny stakes because I am disciplined enough not to gamble with money I can't afford to lose. Never in my wildest dream did I think that UB could confiscate my deposit money. So now call me freerollAnnie cuz that's all I can afford to play. With regards to your other questions. I play poker win or lose because I love the game and want to become an expert at it - and not to get rich - just because anything worth doing is worth doing well. Do I take advice, ABSOLUTELY! I am always looking for ways to improve my game. I am not enjoying the Freeroll and micro tables and hope I can afford to move out of them soon because if every hand is gonna be called down to the river, the most interesting aspect of the game (the bluff) is lost. Do I think micro players are putzes or beneath high stake players - absolutely not - some people have no choice but to play there because their household budgets are so tight (wife spends all the money and kids gotta eat) - others play there by choice and not to get rich- just cuz they enjoy the game. Nothing more exciting than to take a fish's whole stack even if it's just a dollar. Elle p.s. if we are good to each other we are all winners. HEY I think I will make that my signature. [/QUOTE]

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