750 hours really is nothing though. You could easily be running good or bad. Whats your winrate and stdv fpr those 750 hours, and at what stakes?

TX has no state income tax tho

Yes. Texas, like Nevada, has high property tax rates. That was for multiple properties. I've disposed of some. I should only pay $9k in property taxes this year.

bip! can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming even standard deviation has its problems given that we can't assume the game conditions we collected the data in is the same we'll be playing in the future.

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Ive had 1 really ridiculous good streak and 1 really horrible one. Its pretty easy to tell the difference. Really anyone who has played a lot of poker should know if they are running good, bad or avg. Im 100% positive that Ive been running below avg but there no way of convincing anyone else of that.

Its also easy to tell if your results are all over the place with huge winning days and weeks and huge losing days and weeks. My variance is very low and my results are normally very steady and consistent.

My StDv is $262.64/hr at $2/$5

Peak hours are obviously going to be a bit better than non peak hours, especially if you are playing a standard abc (wait and stack the fish) approach.

I used to avoid playing daytime games but lately have found them to be not so bad, as long as you understand your player pool, your villian's tendencies, when to bluff, etc.

The majority of my hours are daytime now.

True, but I was just curious because it can be indicative of a high variance style, which would invalidate his winrate further due to sample size

That is a pretty low stdv. Do you have a graph posted somewhere i can see?

Who are the good players? Just curious.

What were your approximate live NLHE results before moving to Florida? It seems weird for you to keep citing the last 750 hours when you must have played thousands of hours of live poker since Black Friday.

I am not trying to attack you, but I always scratch my head when people post about their "recent results" instead of just posting their lifetime results. Why bother posting about a small sample of recent results instead of posting about a large sample of lifetime results?

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I'll see if I can't convince her to forward me 30k.


She's actually starting to come around. Her main issue is the time commitment. So keeping her happy will provide me with more support. That's the case for any poker wife.


Mike: maybe your adjustments are actually good adjustments. I think you catch flak here because the way you articulate your positions leads us to believe that you don't know why what you're doing works. Maybe you just have trouble spelling it out. Maybe you really don't know why it's working which means it won't last because when
You don't know why you don't know how.

Add on your lack of volume and you can see why people are skeptical. I'm not going to knock your results so far though. If your ~750 hrs have no value then my ~1000 have none either. It is simply an asterisk currently. You could be a savant. You could also be a whale.

I also wouldn't put to much stock into what your live poker friends say to your face. Poker players are notorious for snickering at the back of the fish as he walks away.

I would agree with this.

I would say I have trouble articulating what Im doing mostly because I do a lot based on feel at the time (or reads if you want to call it that). Ive had a couple people ask me to coach them but other than the basics I have no idea how to coach anyone.

I doubt my poker friends are texting me with HHs asking for advice on certain hands if they were snickering behind my back about my abilities.

Before moving to Florida, I lived where there was no poker. I only played when going to Vegas or if I wanted to drive an hour and half which wasnt that often. I probably had 300 hours of live play before moving and I didnt know about poker apps for the phone then (if they even had them) so I have no detailed results tracked. I do know I won about $30/hr during that time though.

I have a graph of my first 100 sessions which covered about just under 500 hrs posted somewhere in this thread. I hit 100 sessions on April 12th so it should be somewhere around there.

Here you go.

I am officially done with this ****. I spend more time modding this thread than the rest of the forum put together. I'm shutting it down for an indeterminate amount of time not less than 24 hours.

When it comes back, this is your one and only warning: If you had a post deleted in the last 24 hours, the next post I delete from you ITT will also come with a ban. This ban will range from 24-hours to perma-IP ban, depending on how egregious and how often you have been warned before.

One last time, this thread falls under strat thread rules. No trolling, no matter how funny it is or how much the person seems to be asking for it. No more derails. And for ****'s sake, stop with the e-peening.

Can we have nice things again?

this just in....taking shots at tournaments then bricking them is bad for your bankroll

Started the year with a BR of 19k.

Cash started badly this year but after a good run in Vegas, my cash stats for the year are back in small profit - up 1k from about 50 hours.

Have bricked 6 tournaments and am now down 8k for the year.

Straight up winrate analysis baby ... woooo!


Results from 2016:
76 sessions total, 58 NLHE (18 PLO)

$1/2 NLHE:
267.6 hours for $3762.0, or $14.06/hr

$1/2 PLO/RxR:
59.9 hours for $1, or $0.0167/hr (Hooray!)




As happens every time I look at this, playing PLO may not be worth my time on a shortish roll. (Although even at dead even I'm probably doing better than 60% of the player pool.)

Running the way I have in the last 100 hours is always frustrating. General brickiness in smallish pots, and a couple of gnarly beats (1 outer for $500? Sure, why not ... which way is BBV again?), but it will turn around.

MTTs are extremely high variance, playing with less than 20 buy ins is asking to go busto, especially if you arent selling action.

Agreed. And it's worse - I had less than 10 buy ins. Played a 2k and a 2.2k amongst my donkaments as well as a 1.5 and 1.1k

My roll is only nominal in the sense that it can be re-plenished with life funds, albeit I won't let that happen.

I think the only logical MTT approach would be to keep playing them by coming up with money, make a decent score, and put that entire winning into a new dedicated tourney roll and repeat.

Is it even possible to win at MTTs given that all of your decent wins are going to be taxed to hell? I've never played in any big tournaments before. I have seen a $130 going on every Sunday at my local Casino and the play is absolutely atrocious. More or less, the same players play in a quarterly tournament that is a $600 buyin. At what point to the tournaments start becoming more diluted by competent players?

It may never happen simply because of the variance.