[OFFICIAL] Winrates, bankrolls, and finances
View Poll Results: What is your Win Rate in terms of BB per Housr
Less than 0 (losing)
5
6.41%
0-2.5
0
0%
2.5-5
6
7.69%
5-7.5
8
10.26%
7.5-10
15
19.23%
10+
26
33.33%
Not enough sample size/I don't know
18
23.08%
07-09-2017
, 12:43 PM
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DK, had no idea fallsview was one of your rooms. I was there on holiday recently, really neat place.
One of the bigger things that goes overlooked is the stack depth between 1/2 and 2/5. I think it's pretty clear that a 9 handed 1/2 with $500 average stack is a better game than a 9 handed 2/5 with $500 average stack.
What I'm getting at is that I've often been in good 1/2 games where the smallest effective stacks are 300bb. I don't think I've ever been in that situation in 2/5 or only a handful of times.
You have much greater implied odds and usually people are still limping or raising lol $12 which is just incredible when you are 300bb deep.
Just last night I was on a decent 2/5 and on a super heater (brag) and took a break and saw a 1/2 with 3 $800 stacks and the rest $300-$600. I tanked for 10 minutes on whether I should table change.
One of the bigger things that goes overlooked is the stack depth between 1/2 and 2/5. I think it's pretty clear that a 9 handed 1/2 with $500 average stack is a better game than a 9 handed 2/5 with $500 average stack.
What I'm getting at is that I've often been in good 1/2 games where the smallest effective stacks are 300bb. I don't think I've ever been in that situation in 2/5 or only a handful of times.
You have much greater implied odds and usually people are still limping or raising lol $12 which is just incredible when you are 300bb deep.
Just last night I was on a decent 2/5 and on a super heater (brag) and took a break and saw a 1/2 with 3 $800 stacks and the rest $300-$600. I tanked for 10 minutes on whether I should table change.
Yes, deep 1/2 is great. I loved the 1/3 500 cap structures in Vegas. I think that is one of the greatest games imaginable.
Ok, 166 bb doesn't sound super deep, but it also doesn't play 50% bigger than 1/2 so it sorta works. Deep stack play is usually beyond the grasp of people playing the lowest stakes so that's great too. My favorite thing is missed value. When someone checks 2p on the river because they are afraid of an impossible straight. Even when i lose the pot, it's like 50bb directly into my pocket.
It is weird because I played almost exclusively 100bb cap games for almost two years and now I play usually around 300bb deep (and some crazy people buy in for 1000bb
) But the transition is going well and it's just more fun. 100bb cap there are a lot of times you can't do anything except wait for a hand. Which is fine, I won't complain about making a decent amount of money for doing something brainless. But it's not as good as making more money and playing interesting hands.
07-10-2017
, 07:44 AM
Quote:
It is neat! Well, was. Shame they gutted the poker room.
Yes, deep 1/2 is great. I loved the 1/3 500 cap structures in Vegas. I think that is one of the greatest games imaginable.
Ok, 166 bb doesn't sound super deep, but it also doesn't play 50% bigger than 1/2 so it sorta works. Deep stack play is usually beyond the grasp of people playing the lowest stakes so that's great too. My favorite thing is missed value. When someone checks 2p on the river because they are afraid of an impossible straight. Even when i lose the pot, it's like 50bb directly into my pocket.
It is weird because I played almost exclusively 100bb cap games for almost two years and now I play usually around 300bb deep (and some crazy people buy in for 1000bb ) But the transition is going well and it's just more fun. 100bb cap there are a lot of times you can't do anything except wait for a hand. Which is fine, I won't complain about making a decent amount of money for doing something brainless. But it's not as good as making more money and playing interesting hands.
Yes, deep 1/2 is great. I loved the 1/3 500 cap structures in Vegas. I think that is one of the greatest games imaginable.
Ok, 166 bb doesn't sound super deep, but it also doesn't play 50% bigger than 1/2 so it sorta works. Deep stack play is usually beyond the grasp of people playing the lowest stakes so that's great too. My favorite thing is missed value. When someone checks 2p on the river because they are afraid of an impossible straight. Even when i lose the pot, it's like 50bb directly into my pocket.
It is weird because I played almost exclusively 100bb cap games for almost two years and now I play usually around 300bb deep (and some crazy people buy in for 1000bb
) But the transition is going well and it's just more fun. 100bb cap there are a lot of times you can't do anything except wait for a hand. Which is fine, I won't complain about making a decent amount of money for doing something brainless. But it's not as good as making more money and playing interesting hands.
even though i manage to get destroyed most of the time i play it and have yet to have a nice ($600+) win in it, can confirm the 1/3 500max at MGMNH is nuts and all skill levels seem to be buying a lot of chips one way or another
07-10-2017
, 08:09 AM
07-11-2017
, 05:29 AM
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I just hit 1000 hours since that time I quit poker for a few months after I got really mad about losing at poker because I was bad at poker. So why not post some graphs and numbers from a weekend warrior.
From 2nd half of 2015 on (after moving from Venue #1 to Venue #2) I've only been playing weekends, usually one session of 6 ish hours every weekend. Lately it's been more. Before it was often less.
Note, venue/stake splits don't quite add up to the total, there's one session of plo and a few random other casinos with 1 or 2 sessions that I omitted
Not quite a boss like many people here and I do feel that over those 1000 hours I've run above average (Even coming off a breakeven 200 hours)
But I've been at the point for a while where I don't need to stress about poker because it's just a nice easy fun side income. For money that improves my quality of life and also that I can afford to lose. Don't have a desire to move up and be a holla balla, things are good enough already.
Like Squid said and like johnny knows, stable income + working life + poker hobby is the nuts. Even if I could maintain this hourly playing full time I wouldn't want to.
From 2nd half of 2015 on (after moving from Venue #1 to Venue #2) I've only been playing weekends, usually one session of 6 ish hours every weekend. Lately it's been more. Before it was often less.
Note, venue/stake splits don't quite add up to the total, there's one session of plo and a few random other casinos with 1 or 2 sessions that I omitted
Not quite a boss like many people here and I do feel that over those 1000 hours I've run above average (Even coming off a breakeven 200 hours)
But I've been at the point for a while where I don't need to stress about poker because it's just a nice easy fun side income. For money that improves my quality of life and also that I can afford to lose. Don't have a desire to move up and be a holla balla, things are good enough already.
Like Squid said and like johnny knows, stable income + working life + poker hobby is the nuts. Even if I could maintain this hourly playing full time I wouldn't want to.
This is for playing 1/2 & 1/3 on vacations - mostly at Lake Charles, Biloxi, New Orleans and Winstar for 2016 and 2017.
07-12-2017
, 04:38 AM
Quote:
It is neat! Well, was. Shame they gutted the poker room.
Yes, deep 1/2 is great. I loved the 1/3 500 cap structures in Vegas. I think that is one of the greatest games imaginable.
Ok, 166 bb doesn't sound super deep, but it also doesn't play 50% bigger than 1/2 so it sorta works. Deep stack play is usually beyond the grasp of people playing the lowest stakes so that's great too. My favorite thing is missed value. When someone checks 2p on the river because they are afraid of an impossible straight. Even when i lose the pot, it's like 50bb directly into my pocket.
It is weird because I played almost exclusively 100bb cap games for almost two years and now I play usually around 300bb deep (and some crazy people buy in for 1000bb ) But the transition is going well and it's just more fun. 100bb cap there are a lot of times you can't do anything except wait for a hand. Which is fine, I won't complain about making a decent amount of money for doing something brainless. But it's not as good as making more money and playing interesting hands.
Yes, deep 1/2 is great. I loved the 1/3 500 cap structures in Vegas. I think that is one of the greatest games imaginable.
Ok, 166 bb doesn't sound super deep, but it also doesn't play 50% bigger than 1/2 so it sorta works. Deep stack play is usually beyond the grasp of people playing the lowest stakes so that's great too. My favorite thing is missed value. When someone checks 2p on the river because they are afraid of an impossible straight. Even when i lose the pot, it's like 50bb directly into my pocket.
It is weird because I played almost exclusively 100bb cap games for almost two years and now I play usually around 300bb deep (and some crazy people buy in for 1000bb
) But the transition is going well and it's just more fun. 100bb cap there are a lot of times you can't do anything except wait for a hand. Which is fine, I won't complain about making a decent amount of money for doing something brainless. But it's not as good as making more money and playing interesting hands.
07-25-2017
, 03:52 PM
I really hate PLO. All of my local games are switching to it, and the spewy gambler types gravitate to it. But I'm just not rolled for it. An insistence on a $5 bring in, so that every flop is $100 and you're either in "wait and jam AAQQ pre" mode, or need to be $1k+ deep to be able to play a turn.
7 PLO BI's gone straight and goodbye July profits
:rant:
$11/hr for NLHE this year, -$6/hr for PLO/RxR.
Yuck.
7 PLO BI's gone straight and goodbye July profits
:rant:
$11/hr for NLHE this year, -$6/hr for PLO/RxR.
Yuck.