I very much agree.

I often debate this, I play a very aggressive and swongy style, its annoying to build a double stack only to lose it. However if the table is super fishy, I'll stick around. Last night I built my stack up to 320BB until the fish left.

However if its just a loose table and I'm not building up after an orbit or two, I'll leave and find another juicy table.

I think it's impossible to keep avoiding playing 200BB deep, that should mean you are going to leave the table every time you double up?

I dislike this for 2 reasons:
1. I think it's kinda unethical, you win a pot and leave right after it, I don't like it when players do that, I always give people the change to win their stack back (which they most of the time don't get but still)

2. you should only move tables because of the fact it ain't juicy anymore. + It's a great way to get used to the level you are heading for!

lol I know what you mean. I dropped out after a couple years and became a homeless hippie instead. I'm walking the middle path now.

lol @ anyone <40 ever seeing a dime from social security imo.

Oh snap, this is insane complicated. I need a spreadsheet.

And I need to know the % the pitcher throws each pitch for a strike.

I disagree with you on #1, who says you have to give them the chance to get their money back? I do kinda agree with you on #2, hence why I'm debating it.

Also need to know the hitters BABIP. And his contact %. And the % of time he swings at a pitch that isn't in the strikezone.

Actually, now that I think through it, we're obviously not thinking about this the same way.

Is this a one pitch at bat?????

I didn't say I leave immediately after. I don't understand why its unethical to rathole though? I personally don't do it but I don't have a problem with the SS'ers who constantly do it. Its part of the game, nothing against the rules in doing so. Its just as unethical as slow playing, which is part of the game, or bluffing for that matter.

If I was a SS'er though, I'd be too cheap to leave immediately, I paid my blinds and I'd want to get every free card I'm entitled to.

But I do agree with your second point. I think I will stick around more to get use to having basically 50nl money on the table. Unless it dries up of course.

I always stay 100 BB's deep at all times, I use the auto top off thing. I just haven't felt comfortable playing 200+ BB stacks, so what I usually do is if I get a 200+ BB stack, I'll stay for another orbit or 2 and end up leaving. However, maybe I should stop doing that, thats why I was asking.

I just don't like to move around because of the fact I have won a stack.

I move tables constantly, I am table select nit, I only play the juicy tables and refuse to play with a lot of regs or shortstackers

But I won't move because I doubled up, okay, saying it's unethical and you should give people a change to win their stack back is silly, I always forget on the internet you can't say stuf like that without making clear you are not really serious.

But I dislike moving because of the fact I just doubled up and I could lose 200BB because somebody has the same $$ as me

Fair enough, I appreciate your thoughts ... I wanted to see what others think

just base it on the % I gave you and 1 pitch.

Who's on first??

Hey TDK, you can't just say "I'm running bad", only "I've been running bad for x hands/weeks/month". I know it sounds like nit-picking, but keeping that in mind is important imo.
The outcome of every single hand is statistically distributed and independent of any previous hands. You could win the next 10 flips in a row, doesn't matter if you've been running bad in the last x ones.

Yeah it's obvious, but always thinking about it that way helps at least me overcome things like "all-in EV bumps" or a recent unusual concentration of coolers. Avoid getting in a state of mind where you expect to lose, that's actually a form of tilt!

Thank you very much Kflip and you are totally right, I am starting to forget that because it has been going on for a long time..

I don't really know how I feel about it, when I start playing I always feel good/normal. I just say to myself: "well, we will see what it brings", then I start playing and I am feeling good because I play well,
then I am totally card dead and lose 2bi's to coolers and bad beats.
I think in some sort of mixed-feelings about poker at the moment.
I know I will grind it trough, on the other hand I just want it to happen today
I know it's just variance, on the other hand I feel like the poker gods are just picking on me

Ty again, and you are totally right. I have to keep that in mind because I am really starting to forget it

Its so awesome when you find a leak and plug it! I found one and I'm fixing it

yeah, it's a shame you didn't discover the chat-thread earlier

Ya I lurked on 2+2 for a while before posting. I'm really trying to improve my overall game so I decided to get more active. The leak i found is I'm trying to outplay everyone in every pot, I am working on learning to let some of the more avg spots go and look for more +ev spots to play in instead. Its worked wonders since I have got that in mind, I'm +2 buy ins today in my 1st session

good, it's not about winning pots, it's about winning money

For sure

TDK,

Are you sure alot of it is not in your head. I've got a good friend that is constantly telling me how he gets sucked out on, how he always gets rivered. He's a winning player but all I ever hear is how he constantly run bad.

You'd swear to god he's been on a 1 million k downswing hand.

That being said, I recently read Theory of Poker and I remember something from the introduction, it said that good players will always get sucked out on more than typical players because they are getting the money in good.

Ah, one pitch!

I was building a tree starting the count at 0-0 with the pitcher's probability of throwing a strike/curve on that count, then moving down the tree as the count changes to 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, etc. Heh....

OK, one pitch. Do we have historical information on the mix of pitches this pitcher throws? 50-50, or is this an optimization problem?

I think you are overthinking it.....try it graphically first.

A downswing is always in your head, because you actually have no idea if you start to run normal again, run bad or preparing for a heater.
Just like Kflip says @ the previous page.

I was just getting a bit sick of it, and had to spew it out.

But thanks for the words, I will keep it in mind I am just getting sucked out more then the average player

Got damn fish in a luckbox 2-outer ****!

Has anybody noticed that pokrtableratings is getting less and less accurate? They used to be 95% on but now many of my sessions aren't even close to accurate.