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Originally Posted by gobbledygeek
What were your conclusions?
I'm still not convinced such a small sample size tells us much, unless we really start grouping hands/positions together. At the 2000 mark, I thought to myself "damn, I wish I had been tracking all my hands by position, I would have an stone cold proof database of profitable vs unprofitable hands by now". But then I worked backwards, and long story short, realized the profitability of playing 55 UTG would have boiled down to how I did when I flopped a set ~4 times (really, I'm going to conclude anything from what happened on 4 hands?!?!).
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Your signature sums it up, in that most of my conclusions are accepted wisdom that I hadn't really accepted. I came from an online background, with constant 100+BB stacks and 2.5x pfr; in comparison to llsnl, you can play very loose online when you have position. Live, 1/3 stack depth is sometimes so bad that basically we should be folding most everything to a raise. (2/5 1K cap is much better ldo.) So I moved my game from LAG to TAG (which looks to the average llsnl rec as borderline nit).
Anyway, conclusions: I took calling almost completely out of my game. Suited cards just don't pay well enough as a caller, including Axs. (There was a HH thread recently about something like QJs otb, vs utg nit and no other callers iirc, the predictible call vs fold pre discussion ensued. Someone wrote that if the fold that hand otb they'll die inside. Well, these days, I'm likely to fold it as well. The last HH I posted, the only one in ages, was a spot IP with A6s, shoulda just folded pre.)
Also, I (no longer) almost never limp from EP/MP--I know you do and others do and have success and that's fine, but I saw l/c as a huge leak in my game. Waaaay too much l/c, c/f otf lines. I also found that in pots less than $100, I was essentially break even. Almost all of my money comes from big pots. Or as been said before, "AA/KK/btn, all the rest is meta." This is helpful in getting me into a more patient mindset, now that I don't have 6 tables of button clicking to attend to.
Again, nothing profound, but it is pretty different data from online, and I think the changes are good. Boring, but good. I just needed some numerical data to convince me. Most people don't think it's worth it but I always encourage those who want to give it a go, I think it's worthwhile.
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