I definitely did make an adjustment as I switched to my Super Nit method. Not a 180 degree on anything and more just going harder down the same road I was already on, with the three main tweaks being (a) BIing / topping up for 66bbs instead 100bbs, (b) tightening way up in all positions / facing raises, and (c) having a 0% raising range in LJ- (and needing very specific conditions to consider raising the HJ). The last year or so I think I'm also quitting games better (and is something I'm forced to do now thanks to nursing an injury), which I think benefits my shortstacking wheelhouse, so we'll how that plays out.

*But*... it still all could be just simple variance, as I played the exact same style over my first 2000 hours versus second 2000 hours (which have a fairly massive difference in hourly).

GcluelessingeneralnoobG

Happy birthday Java!

I'm guessing you've piled up some impressive poker hours over the years?

GcluelesspokerhoursnoobG

Thank you. I have, but I'm too lazy to keep track

What's the theory behind this?

The idea behind my method was stolen from PNLHE regarding the concept of setting up desirable SPRs / situations postflop.

Limping/overlimping in EP/MP (with a tight range, a lot which I'm planning to limp/reraise against certain raisers), I'm able to setup good situations for myself. If I get in the limp/reraise and it takes down big dead money preflop (much more $$$ than a raise would ever do taking down a lol meaningless bb or two), unraked at that OOP, fine. If the limp/reraise is called, it mostly sets up a trivial and very profitable commitment spot postflop. And if it limps around, whatever, I play a high SPR multiway pot where I have lots of streets to use my postflop skillz to make decent decisions (leaning to making nitty folds of one pair hands very multiway, with incorrect folds being at worst a small mistake thanks to being in a small unraised pot). Meanwhile, I avoid stoopid postflop situations that an EP/MP raise will often create: a multiway handcuffing SPR OOP where I can easily make big mistakes postflop (committing with the worst of it versus not protecting / folding with the best of it in big pots, often facing commitment decisions on early streets with very little info) against players that made at worst a very small preflop mistake (having all gotten fine IO).

And so preflop I basically limit my raising to the CO+, where I have a lot more information available (how many people / who are interested in their hand and to what extent, their stack sizes, etc.) to make much better decisions in an attempt to get myself in good spot postflop.

Anyhoo, that's the general idea and it works well for me / my skillz set / in my game.

GcluelessNLstrategynoobG

GG do you actually enjoy playing poker?

I probably have more lol's at the table than anyone else (which may even rub some people the wrong way, is there anything more annoying that the nittiest guy at the table attempting to have the funnest time?).

Obviously I'm extremely disciplined in order to maintain as best a giraffe as I can. But if I didn't find the hours more enjoyable than a lot of alternatives then I wouldn't play (as the money won is relatively meaningless to my life).

GclueslesslifebalancenoobG

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