Honest question: Do I have an edge?
02-12-2017
, 02:34 PM
Hey everyone.
So far I've played upwards of 400k hands over the course of half a dozen years (mostly recreationaly, until around 2 years ago), made some profit on Spin'nGo's (mostly 7$) before online poker was banned in my country (Portugal), and in December it came back. Since I was decent playing shortstacked, I figured I'd try 6-max Hyper-turbos, and this has been the result so far (plus 50.00eur in rake-back):
My question is: Having played more than 2k games, can I assume that I've got an edge, or is it possible that these results could be a consequence of short-term variance? While I figure it is quite unlikely, the self-doubt is a real thing when you play high variance games and hit a wall every other time. I guess a second pair of eyes and someone with experience could shed some light on this.
Furthermore, since poker players have a natural thing for graphs, these are the results/stats since I've used PT4 (from about 1.5k games in, or 25% overall). While they do not cover most games played, I figured it could be usefull.
So there you go, please, feel free to straight up bash me.
Also, if any of you could identify any blatant leaks, I'd very much appreciate feedback. I bet a lot of you guys been doing this for way longer and way better than I am.
As for my challenge, I've got no limit whatsoever. I play as many hours as I can and so far, on this new version of Pokerstars (Pokerstars.pt), I've deposited 10.00 eur, and have been as far as 630.00eur - ish .
I really just want to improve my game. That's my challenge.
PS: If you've got any tips at all about the format, or know a good player that does and that I could reach out to, that would be phenomenal.
Thank you very much to everyone reading, in advance, and good luck to everyone at the tables!
So far I've played upwards of 400k hands over the course of half a dozen years (mostly recreationaly, until around 2 years ago), made some profit on Spin'nGo's (mostly 7$) before online poker was banned in my country (Portugal), and in December it came back. Since I was decent playing shortstacked, I figured I'd try 6-max Hyper-turbos, and this has been the result so far (plus 50.00eur in rake-back):
My question is: Having played more than 2k games, can I assume that I've got an edge, or is it possible that these results could be a consequence of short-term variance? While I figure it is quite unlikely, the self-doubt is a real thing when you play high variance games and hit a wall every other time. I guess a second pair of eyes and someone with experience could shed some light on this.
Furthermore, since poker players have a natural thing for graphs, these are the results/stats since I've used PT4 (from about 1.5k games in, or 25% overall). While they do not cover most games played, I figured it could be usefull.
So there you go, please, feel free to straight up bash me.
Also, if any of you could identify any blatant leaks, I'd very much appreciate feedback. I bet a lot of you guys been doing this for way longer and way better than I am.
As for my challenge, I've got no limit whatsoever. I play as many hours as I can and so far, on this new version of Pokerstars (Pokerstars.pt), I've deposited 10.00 eur, and have been as far as 630.00eur - ish .
I really just want to improve my game. That's my challenge.
PS: If you've got any tips at all about the format, or know a good player that does and that I could reach out to, that would be phenomenal.
Thank you very much to everyone reading, in advance, and good luck to everyone at the tables!
Last edited by Joao Amaral; 02-12-2017 at 02:44 PM.
