This is my true PokerEDGE success story. Rick Braddy interviewed me, and then wrote this article for PokerEDGE.
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R. Steve McCollum
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Read this true story below...
Hold’em player learns powerful online "tell" system—recovers losses and becomes profitable player
First, a little background. I recently heard from Steve, a guy who was a pretty good live poker player, but really struggled playing online.
That’s right. He could win consistently playing in person at the casinos, bringing home many hundreds to thousands per session, but had a terrible time online.
In the red from the start, he watched his online losses mount as he tried to figure out what the problem was when playing online. It was extremely frustrating to win so big in live games, and lose equally big online.
As his bankroll dwindled, he began to fear that he had just somehow lost his game. Having played Hold'em for almost 40 years (way before online poker existed), Steve knew for certain he was a good player, but online was different...
Steve was uncertain what to do, but he thought his problem might be this:
Playing in person, he was good at reading the “tells” of other players. But playing online, no way - there's just not enough information available. So Steve did some research of his own, scouring the Internet looking for something that would enable him to turn his online game around.
Then Steve found out how to actually read opponent “tells” while playing online. And he started winning - a lot. He recovered all his losses and once again became a good poker player—this time online!
Figuring this out and becoming a consistent online winner felt great!
Steve is a guy a lot of us can relate to. Someone who just needs that “extra something” to take his game to the next level.
Well, Steve found that extra something, and was kind enough to share the details with me. He also gave me permission to share it with you…
Here’s Steve's story:
Steve started playing Texas Hold’em almost 40 years ago.
Back then in Dallas, TX, he played in underground games in garages, in homes and in bars. He played in games with $5 limits, games with $10 limits-- and in games with no limits.
Things were different back then - poker as we know it was not yet the big, popular pastime and opportunity it is today. It was the 1970s and the WSOP was a little known brand, just getting started.
Seeing how there were no casinos in Texas (and, of course, no online poker anywhere back then), Steve regularly made the couple-of-hour-drive to the Oklahoma or Louisiana border, where legal casino operations were located.
Steve played poker, a lot of it, over the years. He had become a winning recreational player and felt like he was a better-than-average, all-around player.
But even though Steve was doing well at the casinos, he was growing tired of the grind.
Playing at the casinos involved long drives, eating out and staying overnight in a hotel or motel somewhere. So, in late 2006, Steve decided to focus his poker interest online.
Confident in his poker-playing ability, Steve jumped right in playing online cash games. But Steve’s online experience was a losing one - right from the beginning...
He had trouble with the pace of the game, and the inability to read other players’ “tells.” Steve was in the red from the get-go. Steve was in shock.
How could this be?
Shaken, Steve tried to play through it, figuring he would catch on eventually. But he found himself deeper and deeper into the red. He changed over from cash games to SNGs, figuring it would be a good way to improve his play with less financial risk, and slow the bleeding and poker deposits down some.
Steve decided to seek help so that he could compete better in this new, online world. He read every SNG book he could find, and discovered the Royal Flush Club online. He studied Rick Braddy’s “Secrets of Winning Sit and Go Tournaments” ebook and tried his hand at the online tables once again.
Although his winnings improved, Steve felt he had reached a plateau and was only breaking even or slightly ahead. Frustrated, he considered using several poker calculator products, but none of them offered quite what he wanted and needed, as an experienced player.
Then Steve stumbled upon the Poker-Edge site. Steve read about how to use the Poker-Edge software product to see other players’ stats, based on their history of playing, and how to choose the most profitable cash game tables using Lobby-Edge.
He was excited to learn that Poker-Edge software gives you access to a massive database of player statistics, showing the strengths, weaknesses, betting patterns and stats of all your opponents in real time while you play.
This was just what Steve needed! Poker-Edge finally gave him a way to read “tells”—online! (an advantage that Steve was accustomed enjoying at the live games and casino poker rooms).
Armed with knowledge of a player's past and current tendencies, Poker-Edge would help Steve predict his opponents’ future hand play and behavior … Steve decided to give it a try.
It took Steve a bit to get used to the software and its massive player tendency database. But he played and got experienced with Poker-Edge … and started winning again very quickly!
Using Poker-Edge, Steve could see his opponents’ stats at a glance: their playing preferences in key situations, even their peculiarities.
Using Poker-Edge helped Steve improve his game in several ways. He now had the ability to know his opponents well at the table, sure. But he also used Poker-Edge to study and learn the tendencies of other winning players. He could model this playing behavior to win even more. And Steve also studied the stats of losing players - to learn more about how NOT to play like them and how to best them more consistently.
Steve even used Poker-Edge to study his own playing history and stats. Armed with this knowledge, Steve learned what he could do to plug the leaks in his own game. And start winning again.
Steve did not have to get up to speed with Poker-Edge all on his own. He joined the Poker-Edge forum, where he was able to learn a lot from all the forum members and its experienced moderators.
Using Poker-Edge, Steve was able to go from deep in the red, to recovering all his losses, to climbing into the black, to winning regularly again and moving up four playing levels!
In addition to winning more online, Steve also won his confidence back. And that made him feel best of all.
In Steve’s own words: “Literally, I would not play without it.”
So, why is Steves' story so important and relevant to you?
Because today's online poker rooms are full of very experienced online players, sharks, and pros who are also using advanced tools like Poker-Edge to gain that extra edge that makes the difference between winning and losing consistently.
And Steve's story is just one of many examples of a Poker-Edge customer who is enjoying the tremendous feelings of accomplishment associated with winning online, building a bankroll and having a lot more fun.
Steve's story isn't an isolated incident. We see these kinds of stories played out every single day on our forum, with people winning amazing amounts of money, buying cars, boats and anything else they want with their winnings.
These folks don't talk a lot about this outside the Poker-Edge forum, since they typically want their best-kept secrets quiet and invisible to the poker public.
The online tell system you get with Poker-Edge makes that big of a difference, and you actually get a whole lot more with the latest product version...
So, why not add powerful online tells to YOUR poker game and gain your own edge by knowing everything about your competition -- with Poker-Edge?
There's going to be no stopping you, once you make up your mind and join the thousands of successful, satisfied Poker-Edge winners like Steve.
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Copyright 2009 R. Steve McCollum
