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Message: [QUOTE="lightning36, post: 475964, member: 4028"] :cool: The first 12-18 months I played online, I lost overall. That was the price, however, of learning to play. Now that I have paid my dues, I tend to come out ahead. Not every session or every tournament, but overall. I am way ahead because of several things I do to keep myself ahead: 1) I try to avoid sites that just, for some reason, do me in. I can't count the number of times I was ahead in a hand at Titan, only to lose on the river. I played the hand correctly, had the odds in my favor, but the Titan poker gods just screwed me. 2) I do not play while intoxicated or exhausted. If I start getting too tired or fatigued, I try to quit before I start making too many mistakes. I have made some really boneheaded plays in CardsChat tournaments and other places when I was really too tired to make good decisions. 3) I know my style of play -- what works for me -- and I stick with it. On one trip to Las Vegas, I tried playing a totally different style. A few hundred dollars later, I knew it was time to stop the experiment. 4) I like to play tournaments against good players -- like the CardsChat buy ins -- because of the competition and the opportunity to improve my playing skills. At ring games, however, I want to play against poor players. They will sometimes luck out and put a bad beat on me, but I know that I'll probably get it all back -- and more -- before the session is over. 5) When things are going bad, I try to just get off the computer -- easier said than done. I still need major work in this area. I think that what you will find is that players who invest their time, try to use logic and reason, and keep their emotions out of the game will tend to come out ahead. CardsChat has been instrumental in helping me to lose some donkishness. I really enjoy the buy in tournaments because the best players here are tough players. [/QUOTE]

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