I had been struggling for over a year in the online poker world. I have never been a poker loser but I was also not being much of a winner for the amount of time and effort I was putting in to becoming a great poker player. I was simply plugging along, playing every evening and swallowing up poker theory books like they were candy. I kept blaming the problems on the fact that the other players were not following the rules of poker. Then, I took a break, left poker behind me for a couple of weeks thinking that there must be a better way to make money online?

?then I came back to poker. I kept telling myself; poker can work for you, you're a smart player, you understand the basic theories, so why aren't you winning? I started to look at what style of poker was working for me...where was I making money? Certainly not in limit poker, it was too boring, and certainly not in ring games, I got too bored, played things that I shouldn?t, and leaked money. That left tournament poker, and it really was where I had made the most money. That led me to the sit n go style of poker. Now I play sit n goes exclusively and this is why:

-There's a low risk with a high return. Most sit n goes have a payout structure that includes the top three players. The first place player receives half the pot, the second place player gets thirty percent and the third place player gets twenty percent. In any sit n go there are usually six or seven fish, so making it to the money isn't that difficult.

-It is possible to play many at once. In the early stages of a sit n go you are simply folding your hands, waiting for a monster, or for the other players to knock each other out, so as long as you stagger the starts of your sit n goes by about ten minutes, you can play numerous tournaments at once, thus increasing your per hour winnings.

-A very smart sit n go player once said that playing sit n goes is like watching the same movie over and over again. What does that mean to the shrewd sit n go player? It means that once you have developed a winning system, it will work over and over and over again. The players? names may change, but the play seems to stay the same. Now that I have a system developed that works, I am able to make the money more than fifty percent of the time.

-Sit n goes are the easiest place to make money playing online poker. You don't have to eliminate thousands of players and take hours of work just to make a few dollars in a freeroll, each sit n go takes about an hour and has a return of approximately forty dollars or more. ($40 is the net amount you would add to your bankroll if you win a $10 sit n go)

Now, I am a semi-pro poker player. I play sit n goes and it pays for my kids? daycare and our extra holidays and luxury items. I play sit n goes and I will have my house paid off by the end of the year. I play sit n goes and I am on my way to financial freedom. I have become a sit and go pro, and you can be one too.

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