If someone is sitting on a 6max table 300-400 BB's deep, until shown otherwise, do you read them for being good or just lucky? Are you looking to get into pots with him holding marginal hands or are you looking to play tight and hoping to get all your stack involved?
I never make assumptions. I just treat them as I would treat any other unknown.
Aside from aggression and BR (obviously), are there any major differences between 50NL and say, 200NL+? Are people 3- and 4- betting lighter? More spewwy? Tougher?
People are harder to exploit, which just means they make less mistakes, and the mistakes they make are less obvious. So in turn you have to think harder about how to exploit them, because they probably have a decent idea already of what you are thinking.
How many hands must a sufficient sample size consist of for a 6max cash game player be in order to get critique about his or her game without the 'sample size not big enough' comments?
There is no such thing as a big enough sample. 100k hands is a good start, IMO.
How many buy-ins would you recommend to be a sufficient bankroll at 50NL? Is there a number of buy-ins you should have won (or lost) before you can move up (or down)? I've heard so many different theories and ideal numbers and they all differ from each other.
20 is fine if you are a TAG/solid. If you want to get LAG tricky and spew all over the place then you'll need more, obviously. You should move up and down as you feel comfortable. If youre dumb enough to go broke, you were probably going to go broke eventually anyway, so consider yourself lucky that you didnt waste more time on the whole "poker" thing.
Is your number of buy-in's for a certain level affected by your own style of play? For example, tight players can survive on a smaller BR, whilst loose players need a larger BR to survive?
Yes, see above.
If you decide that you're going to take shots at the next level, do you set yourself a range of buy-ins won until you can do it, or should you just take shots when you feel like it?
Both. Sometimes if Im just playing really well and say I am up 3bi, I will risk 2bi of that win on a quick shot at the next level. Then I know that even if I get coolered, I'll still be up a BI. But if I dont feel anything special that day I'll just keep grinding till I reach a BR goal. For me its 30bi at the current level.
Does anyone else's PT3 crash when they replay a hand from start to finish? Mine does if I click the play button, but not when I click it step by step.
n/a dont have PT3.
With the PT3 HUD on the tables, I see my stats keep dissappearing and reappearing every now and then whilst everyone elses stats stay constantly on the table. Glitch or is there a way to fix it?
head to the PT3 forums I think is the best idea.
Thanks, and great thread too btw.
Last edited by ama0330; 06-27-2008 at 01:06 PM.