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Originally Posted by stlows
Yo guys after 80 hours of 1/2 NL i'm down 363 $, can i conclude something on my game? Do I have to look for something that i'm doing really wrong or should i continue playing and re-evaluate after more hours.
In that i lost a 750 $ pot with 97% equity all in on the flop... (middle set vs top pair he runner runner a bigger FH...meh)
I think one of my biggest leak is to not cashout. I make too long session. 80 hours in only 10 sessions. I think i might take shorter session and cashout when i'm up 1-2 buy in.
I read The Course by Ed Miller and try to apply his tips concerning 1/2. But I read tips for 2/5 too so I might mixed things up sometimes...
What other book would you recommend me to crush my limit?
Longest session: 14.5 hrs
Biggest win : 315
Biggest lost : 505
Winning/Losing session : 50 %
What you guys think?
Well, that one pot flips you to a $387 winner. So that tells you a little bit about how much confidence you can have in small samples of winrate.
Long sessions can lead to burnout and lead to you playing at off-peak times. I personally have no problem with a 12+ hour day at the casino when I've got a free day. But it's hard to keep focused without a dinner/stretch break here and there. Leave when you're feeling tired, distracted, or otherwise off your game. Not because you're up a BI or two (unless you're prone to changing your game deep, in which case the real solution is a strategy one).
Basically any book by Ed Miller is good (haven't read The Course yet). There are a couple of good threads in the books and publications forum, as well as reviews. Check those.
The best way to evaluate where you're at is to look at strategy. Post in threads, post threads of your own. If you're making good decisions the wins will follow eventually.
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Originally Posted by spikeraw22
I wonder about that too. Angrist brought up a good point a while back (not sure if it's in this thread). The main poker casino in our area has a HUGE BBJ that just hit for 550k last month. That place was shoulder to shoulder packed every day all day hntil that thing hit. $1/hand and it was sucking a lot of money out of the game. The hope is that more players would account for that but the reality was that most of them were there just to hit the BBJ and really weren't there to play poker. So there were a lot of tablet tools sitting there giving no action and only playing PPs. Was hardly worth it.
I think I'm pretty much done with that place for awhile. At least until I investigate some of the other games around. We're lucky. We have an almost unlimited supply of games to choose from.
Yea, I think that was ITT. The BBJ packed the room (good for the house), and brought players in while making them wait in the pits for a seat (even better for the house). But it killed the action as more and more players nitted it up trying to hit. Hurt the traffic everywhere else. I'd estimate that it also decreased the average pot size, which increases the rake as a percentage of the pot too. I don't like that room for a number of reasons, including the low BI cap and perception that it's "the best place for poker" in Detroit, which brings more $2/5 and higher players that sometimes get stuck at $1/2 waiting. (And their food sucks.)
The rooms that run 30 min high hand drawings, bonus payouts for any quads/SF, or other promotions out of their BBJ seem to drive more action and are better for our WR. It gets that portion of the rake back into play better too as it's much easier to take your $200 quad payout in chips and just top-off or rebuy than it is to donk off a $30k table share.