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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 5954776, member: 397965"] Since you specifically say, you are playing for fun, and that you are willing to set aside a budget for poker, then I will go a little bit against the consensus here and say, that you dont HAVE to start with the lowest possible stakes, if playing a smaller number of higher stakes games feel more rewarding. With that being said you need to be aware, that "insane and loose" players are also found in low and even mid stakes games. Maybe there are a smaller percentage of them, but they are still there, so its something, you need to learn to deal with. And yes I get it. They can be annoying to play with, because they give you few chances to win small easy pots without showdown. And this can be frustrating, especially if you are card dead or miss all the flops. They call your C-bet, or they stick a donk bet in your face, and again and again you need to fold. Or they hit some ridiculous two pair with J4, and you lose a big pot with top pair top kicker. But the reward comes, when you finally have a big hand and win their entire stack, because they make some ridiculous call. And for those of us, who play for profit, either professionally like Collin Moshman and Evan Jarvis, or part time like myself, they are literally our customers. They pay our bills. So we need to learn to embraze these wild players and actively seek out games, where they are most abundant. And then also play well against them. Sometimes the problem is, we tilt, and then we make some bad call, when it should be obvious, they have gotten lucky on us. If you accept the fact, that the goal is to get your chips in good, then it can actually be a quite rewarding feeling to get value, when they are drawing, and then not pay them off, when they got there. Sometimes they are even kind enough to show their hand, so you know, you made a correct fold. Another thing to be aware of is variance. If you play MTTs with 1.000+ participants, then its completely normal even for winning players to have losing streaks of 1.000 tournaments or more. This is because, a lot of the price money is paid out in the top, and to consistently reach the top you need to put in insane amounts of volume. If you only play an amount like 50 or 100, then your results will be totally dominated by, weather you got lucky and took down a single big price or not. This is also the reason, why I mainly play MTTs with 300 or less participants. [MEDIA=youtube]dmLnxYreq-c[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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