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Internet Texas Hold'em Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro
By
Matthew Hilger
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Internet Texas Hold'em
Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro
First Edition
By
Matthew Hilger
Formatted
www.lnternetTexasHoldem.com
Introduction
“If you can't spot the sucker in your first half-hour at the table, then you are the
sucker.” This is a common poker saying spoken by Matt Damon in the classic poker
movie Rounders. I used to play in a tournament every Sunday night in Costa Rica
with some of the best players in the world. Unfortunately, I had no idea at the time
who those players were. Hopefully this book will help you spot the sucker rather
than be the sucker.
It takes a lot of experience and study of the game before one realizes what it takes
to play at an advanced level. Everyone needs to start somewhere. This book should
increase your learning curve, but there is no substitute for experience. The Internet
is an excellent vehicle to develop your game, no matter if you just play low limits a
few hours a week or strive to develop into a world-class player. The following story
gives you a glimpse into my poker life and the struggles I went through before I
started playing on the Internet.
My first memory of poker is sneaking out into the woods when I was about eight or
nine years old to play penny poker with my friends. In middle school, I remember
getting sent to the principal's office for playing craps in the bathroom. In high
school, I was assistant manager at a local movie theater and one night my friends
and I played poker in the projectionist booth while the movies were playing. To my
dismay, the manager decided to show up that night to check up on things.
Fortunately, the concession girl quickly alerted us. My friends were going down one
staircase as my boss was going up the other one. I had no idea that someday this
passion would become my profession.
I played very little poker during college except the occasional game with my old
high school friends. During my first real job with Andersen Consulting, I worked on
projects that lasted months at a time, and we soon found a way to get a weekly
poker game going playing the typical wild home games.
After a few years with Andersen, I decided to move to Phoenix to get Master's
degree in International Business. I soon discovered the local India reservations
where I first played Texas Hold'em. I would go and play $4-$8 Hold'em every few
weeks and managed a small profit. After graduating, went to work for Chiquita
Brands International at their headquarters in Cincinnati and my poker life was again
put on hold.
After a year and a half, Chiquita transferred me to Costa Rica. This is where I
discovered the thrill of poker tournaments and no-limit Hold'em. They had small
poker tournaments every Tuesday and Thursday night. I had no idea how to play
tournaments and especially no idea how to play no-limit Hold'em but I soon learned.
I then discovered a Hold'em club that had a tournament every Sunday night. These
players were a little more serious and the tournament was a little more expensive.
The buy-in was cheap, but Costa Rica has made a name for itself in the poker
community with its crazy rebuy tournaments (some players would rebuy over 20
times).
I slowly improved each and every month. Fortunately, I did not lose so much the
first six months to make me want to quit. Suddenly, I got on a nice streak and won
three of the small Tuesday/Thursday night tournaments in a row. These
tournaments only had between 16 and 24 players, but winning three in a row gave
me a lot of confidence.
I was still struggling however at the Hold'em Club on Sunday nights. These
tournaments had up to 40 entrants and typically paid a couple grand to the winner.
A lot of the players seemed to have a lot of experience, so it was difficult to
compete. But about eight months after I first started playing tournaments, I posted
my first big win. Then the next week I finished second. Finally, I felt like I was
starting to understand the game.
This story about the Hold'em Club shows just how little I knew about poker, but also
how I was able to gain some great experience to develop my game. I thought these
players at the Hold'em Club were just a bunch of rich Ticos (Costa Ricans) who
enjoyed a nice game of poker on Sunday nights. It wasn't until after I moved from
Costa Rica when I found out that I was playing against some of the lop poker
players in the world.
Some of the players included Humberto Brenes, who has won more than $1.0
million in prize money at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and was the 2002
World Poker Open champion, which paid a $500,000 top prize. His brother Alex
Brenes is also a successful player in U.S. tourneys. Another top player was Dr. Max
Stern who has won the WSOP 7-Card Stud championship and is the author of a
poker book. Jose Rosenkrantz won a World Poker Tour title televised on the Travel
channel and has placed in several events at the World Series of Poker. My Spanish
wasn't very good at the time, so I guess I missed them talking about all of their
poker successes in the states. Talk about a sucker I probably never would have
walked into that club if I had known whom I was up against.
Although those tournaments were a struggle for me starting out, they gave me a
tremendous amount of experience. The smaller tournaments during the week
prepared me for the larger tournaments on Sunday, which gave me invaluable
experience playing with some of the best players in the world. I finished the year
posting a small win, so it was a great learning experience, a lot of fun, and a little
profitable.
In early 2000, Bristol-Myers Squibb transferred me to Argentina. Unfortunately,
Argentina does not have any live poker, so I thought my poker game was again on
hold until I heard about Internet poker. At first, I was skeptical, since I had always
thought of poker as more of a game interacting with other people; however, I
downloaded a site and was impressed by the graphics, chat feature, and overall
feel of the game.
I decided that I needed to get a piece of the action, so I took the plunge and made
my first deposit of $600 at
Within a few weeks, I had won over $5000.
I was officially hooked and soon poker would be changing my life in a big way.
However, I was fortunate that I got a good run of cards the first few months I
played. I realize now that I was playing at limits too high in relation to my bankroll
(more about this in the "Bankroll Management" chapter). I easily could have lost the
small bankroll I had if I had rum into some poor cards. But even though I was
winning. I knew I had a great deal to learn. I started reading every book I could find
and studied the game as much as I could. The quality of my play really improved a
lot in those first six months.
I soon found myself bored in my day job, and couldn't wait to get home to, my
newfound passion. Eventually, I decided to give up my six-figure income job, hang
my two master's degrees on the wall, and was on my way to New Zealand to
become an Internet poker pro.
Everyone needs to start somewhere. My story took me around the world before this
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