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Originally Posted by PopMegaphone
Rec 1/2 player here who is thinking of taking a shot at 2/5. About me...
I'm a player who mostly plays on the weekends. When I decided to take poker seriously, I granted myself a 4K bankroll, which I've run up to a little over 10k. Admittedly, my results tracking in the beginning was spotty in terms of total hours, but the money total is spot on. Since I've begun meticulously tracking my result in March I've "achieved" a $8.52 hourly in 236.5 hours played. I guessimate before that I played around 120 hours. I do not include promos, comps and tourneys in my results*. I'm only interested in measuring my cash game skills. My tracked hours are evenly split between my home casino, the Horseshoe in Hammond, which has a 5+1 rake with a 200 dollar max buy-in and Las Vegas (various rakes, buy-ins). Ironically, I feel like I've improved a lot this year, but I know my hourly has been lower, which I mostly attribute to variance. This year I've studied videos on DC and listened to a lot of Bart Hansen's podcasts, which has helped me with thinner value betting and folding. Additionally, when I sit down at a 1/2 table I often feel like a best and most aggressive player. That said, I'm not prefect and I can always find room for improvement.
So, I guess my question is - I know the sample size is small, but do you think it's like I can be a winning 2/5 player? How do you think a $8.52 hourly will convert to 2/5? Again, I realize the sample size is small.
*I won a WSOP tourney circuit seat and binked 16k in it. I also won 600 dollars in a vegas free roll tourney. Plus, I've gotten some high hand payouts in vegas. But again, I don't include that.
Personally I hate this idea of "taking shots". If you are a regular in a room then you should know by now the biggest winners and the biggest losers in the room. For me it's simple, if the bigger game is better than the smaller game (and my roll permits) I play the bigger game. If the smaller game is better I play that.
To me the whole notion of taking shots is so ego driven that people lose sight of the fact that just because you may play regularly at a higher limit that sometimes the games you are playing in at that limit are worse than a limit right below you.
Don't take shots, if you're rolled for a few different levels, walk around the room look for the best game and sit down at it.
Cheers Mac
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