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Originally Posted by kramssor
Hey Jorj, thought of a few more that may interest you...
1) Do you think a good poker player could be fooled into thinking they were successful at the hypers by say profiting over 10,000 games, whereas they may actually be a marginally losing player? Consequently, do you think a winning hyper player may be fooled into thinking he is a losing player by a similarly extensive negative run? In line with this, was there any point, starting out for example, where you had doubts?
2) In the middle of a normal session, if you call an allin at a crucial point, do you just carry on taking things as they come, or like the rest of us, can you not resist but click back?
3) Don't think it's been asked specifically yet.. your longest ever breakeven stretch in games in the hypers and over how many days? What were you thinking through it.
4) Having played every level through 22,31,44,87,etc all the way up, where would you say the biggest jumps in difficulty are in the hypers?
5) Do you still notice leaks in your game to this day/are still undecided which play is best in certain situations?
6) and lastly do you ever finish a session, hit cashier and find out you're way down when you thought youd be up, or the opposite?
The big song and dance new tables make when they popup I find frustrating as well, not sure if its only on my computer but for me each one kind of pops up, sinks to the background then pops to the front a second time every time, I reckon it would make everyones life easier if they just crept in quietly. Enjoying the thread
1) Yes, the short term means pretty much nothing in the hypers. I just LOL at people who think a 1000 game sample means anything in them. I play 1000 games a day all the time and I've definitely had days where I ran at 10% and other days where I ran at -10%.
Also it's possible to get a higher ROI at first because people won't know your ranges all that well. There are tons of examples of ppl who played 1 or 2 thousand hypers and ran at 5% or whatever, and some of them would tell me how easy they are, then predictably they would run at -5% for the next 1000 games after all the regs figured out their ridiculous ranges, and then they'd never be heard from again.
2) The vast majority of the time that I look back, it's for the purpose of figuring out what my opponent shoved or called with, and not really to see the result. If I'm 30 tabling obviously it's detrimental for me to look at the results ever. But if I'm 10-15 tabling or whatever like I do late at night sometimes (like right now
), then yeah I'll look to see what happened in the hands more often.
3) Just last week I ran at -2% for about 10,000 games and had 7 losing days in a row. That's probably my longest stretch. Obviously it's really annoying and yeah I did doubt myself a little, especially stuff like deciding to make my graph public on sharkscope and did I draw too many good players to the games. But then the streak ended and I came to my senses.
4) The game definitely changes at each level. I don't know that it's necessarily harder once you get to the 87s and higher (the 44s are definitely a lot easier than the 87s), but people's ranges are different. The higher games generally play more aggressively.
5) Yeah I doubt a week goes by where I don't notice a situation and say to myself, "I wonder if my ranges are good in that spot." And then I do all my usual number crunching and database queries to try to figure out a reasonable range for when that spot comes up again.
You'll never hear me saying that I don't have any leaks, because that's just arrogant and plain dishonest. The day I think I don't have anything more to learn in poker is the day I become a losing player.
6) I usually have absolutely no idea whether I'm up or down at the end of a session. It's pretty much impossible to know when you play 1000 games in a day. There are many days where I don't even check to see whether I won that day, because really it doesn't matter. Although ever since I unblocked my sharkscope, I find myself checking my daily results a little too often during my sessions.
I definitely liked it better when I didn't know my results during the session. I may have to somehow ban myself from accessing sharkscope while I'm playing.