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Originally Posted by WAtR
Have you considered dropping down to play only a few tables? I find playing 12-16 absolutely mind boggling and I can't really focus on improving my game on anything more than 3 tables, preferably 2. I'm in a slightly different position to you in that I'm a fairly mediocre 100NL player who is probably rolled to play 400NL but lack of skill is holding me back.
It's just a thought that really working on your game for a couple of weeks playing only a couple of tables may pay dividends when you go back to the multi table grind...
I used to play pretty high too (as discussed in the OP), so I think my strategy level is pretty good. At 2NL and 5NL however, people can play so randomly that it's often difficult to put them on a hand and figure out where you're at in a particular spot. As such, I think it is more profitable at these stakes to simply play a solid strategy, raising with the best hand , folding when their actions tell you you're beat. For me, its $/hour that count at the moment as I'm a busy guy, so for the purposes of this challenge, as I think massively-multi-tabling 5NL is faster profit than concentrating on a couple of tables, I'm gonna stick with it.
At the current rate I should be at my next milestone within another 25k hands. 10NL is a different kettle of fish to 5NL I am told, and I will have to rethink my strategy for these - working on my game may well be the first step.
My time I can dedicate to this challenge is about to be cut short - my girlfriend arrives from Peru tomorrow, so will spending most of my free time with her. Will play while she's at her part-time job, but apart form that it's gonna be pretty sparse around here
. I'll stick with it though, as tbh I'm making minimum wage grinding 5NL at the moment (downswings included), so until I get a proper job (one in the pipeline) this will be my recreational timefiller
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Originally Posted by statue26
maybe c-r for value with a wider range if your finding this. I can see their point though, very few people c-r for value at-all so your range is super polarised when you do this, though I highly doubt that's their though process.
btw how much attention do you pay to each table? are you going through the hand history's making notes etc??
It does work for value quite well tbh, have started doing it more. But LOL at saying my range is polarised - it is very true, however I doubt 95% of 5NL players even know the meanings of the words "range" and "polarised" in a poker context, so it's a bit of a moot point I think. Plus the fact that they call when I c/r with the nuts supports this theory.
When multitabling I usually keep track mentally of certain moves done by players to me like attacking my blind or check-raising me. It usually amounts up to 10-15 players I have my eye on out of the 130 or so I'm at the tables with. The rest I just play my normal game with. I do analyze things in PT3 after a session, but not too heavily as quite simply it's too random at 5NL imo for much data to actually be useful. Also I don't have a large enough sample for stats to mean anything atm.
I have got used to a few of the 5NL regs and tend to avoid them as best I can. Check-raising all-in on a bluff against a reg and watching him fold is one of the best feelings ever though
. They tend to be more aggressive, especially with other regs which is pretty standard. I just keep out of their way unless I have a hand or I think they're out of line.
Last edited by Magicman26; 08-05-2010 at 09:38 AM.