I feel that one of the weakest areas of my poker game is when I get into a ring game. The reason for this is simple, I learned to play poker tournament style, and the skills and objectives of the two types of poker are somewhat conflicting. Is it the same game? Sure, NL Texas Holdem - but the objectives and goals are different. In a ring game marginal mistakes do not cost you everything, where as in a tournament marginal mistakes can - and usually do - cost you everything.
To address what I feel is a weakness in my game I have dedicated to playing 3 hours a week of ring games. Tonight was my first session and I ended with a 30% positive return on my money and avoided any major swings to the negative. I would say my play was tight and the area of glaring improvement that I found was betting less aggressively with a made hand, after all I want these guys to stay in and give me more money - not fold. I think working more on this will also help me in tournament play to extract as many chips as possible from players.
We will see how it goes, but tonight went well. I was patient, folded when I thought I was beat and avoided chasing from behind.
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