Silver1

Nice start @UAC!

it’s fun when you land on those crazy tables:)

Ok understand, thought you were asking how many hands approximately are played once in a hour:)

@Brocky

I think A7s in SB 20BB vs BB is a open raise. We often lead with this hand and don’t want to give the opponent possiblikity to realize equity with his hand in that spot. We are glad to pick up the dead money in the pot (ante and blinds). If he jams we fold. We can still have a raise/fold range in that spot.

9JJ - I like the line. Can see a check there as well, maybe a bit passive but don’t want to get the X/R ja on river. If we bet we need to call. If he bets out on river, for a small amount, I call. A lead on the river from the opponent with a larg size is not that often a bluff so if that happens it will be a fold if I don’t have any reads or seen the guy come to showdown before with some random sh#t he turns into a bluff.

@GR1ZZL3R or do you mean that you are delt 80-90 hands?

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@GR1ZZL3R wrote:

Wow @Silver1 I thought i was on some slow tables but I'm averaging about80-90 hands per hour per table. :happy: 

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Wow @GR1ZZL3R! Do you play 80-90 hands on  a single table with 6 players on it?

@UAC

I mostly play cash game due to the flexibility to choose when to play and for how long. The player pool at the lower stakes are also pretty big so there are games almost all the time. Day time seems to be more reg intensive.

If you play 4 tables this will make up for approximately 100 hands in one hour. I would say that these numbers are pretty close at least to where it will land. So say 20-25 hand in a hour per table dependent on card distribution and the ranges you play.

I don’t track the hands in PT or other software at the moment.

Wish you all the best of luck at the tables:)

@MetalWolf glad to hear that:)!

Agree with @MadAdo, you are inspiring.

I hope this year will be good on you both when it comes to poker and life.

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@yarik_gr wrote:

Tom Dwan always had his own style. 😃

 

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Haha, this one got me to put a smile on my face @yarik_gr

Durrrrr was the king back in days. What a legend!

@GothMoth that’s a sad bust. I think I’m at those stack sizes always going for a 3bet with intention to call a shove. Why did you open-shove against his opening? You got it in really nice, just asking of interest.

I’m going broke with QQ in that spot.

@MetalWolf I was ment to write ”cashes”, sorry! So not my intention in any way ask about any negative stuff or put focus on that. Apologize for the misspelling mate!

Nice results from 2018 @MetalWolf!

Which were your three biggest crashes during 2018? And what was in 2018 your avg buy-in?

GOGOGOGO!

GL mate:) Wish you all the best of luck and good run!

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@Esir wrote:

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@Silver1 wrote:

For me the win rate goes up if I cut down the tables. I’m landing in less marginal spots in that way. Usually playing 4 tables and sometimes 6 but seen I do better at 4.

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For sure playing less tables is beneficial to your gameplay. But I take this trade off for the long term roi. And I found that six tables is the sweet spot for me. Not too boring and not too chaotic.

Also if you are on a tight bankroll it's better to play less for the reasons you mentioned.

Definitely agree!

6 is a nice sweet spot, played that for a while but have dropped down to 4 for a while. Want to try to focus more on certain spots.

you are right, 4 tables can get boring if the tables are less action packed. 6max CG tends to create a action-monster out of one as well:) I play 9max games usually only in tournaments. Also prefer tournaments that are 6max:) And as you said, there is a trade of to the ROI which correlated to the number of tables you play.

GL and happy new year!

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@Brocky wrote:

I think the problem is people don't understand variance.  I doubt even 0.01% of the poker playing population truly understand variance.  I certainly don't understand it, but what I do understand is that people generally only remember the negative variance.  I'm fairly sure 90% of poker players expect the best hand to hold 100% of the time which is ridiculous.  Your AA is going to lose to 72 12.5% of the time, your KK is going to lose to AKs 33.6% of the time.  That's more than 1 in 3 times.  If you play enough hands, variance will even itself out to some extent.  You will always people who run above EV and people who run below, the poker sites don't have any say on this, their RNG's don't sit there and look at how much a player deposits or how long they've been playing.  

If you go on Youtube you'll see 100+ videos of ridiculous beats in live poker but people only ever attribute bad beats to online because that's the narrative they want to believe.  I hit a one outer on the turn at Unibet Open Dublin, did the dealer rig that for me?

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This!

+1

I don’t understand the variance either but have accepted that fact.

For me the win rate goes up if I cut down the tables. I’m landing in less marginal spots in that way. Usually playing 4 tables and sometimes 6 but seen I do better at 4.

@MetalWolf no worries mate, had fun playing and enjoyed it:) Ahhh, you did the anti-jinx-self-talk in the “KK vs AA” hand. That was the trick,in that hand;) Will join in more of those tournaments, fun to play against community members:) 

GL in the Community High mate! Your KK was to hard for my AA;) Fun playing and glad that I had you on my right when I sat down on your table:)

Thx @RayL! 

I’m also one of those who haven’t received a ticket for the High. Would also like to get one please:)

Wow, it’s a bunch of hours for make up for those 1M hands! If I get it right it’s about +6600h if you do 6 tables, wich counts for approximately 150hands/hour. But you have managed to put in 230K for October so it feels like you are the man for the job:) Just putting down the figures so people understand (if they are not into the figures) how much time there is behind the work.

Do you have an estimation of your current win rate?

@Esir Can I ask you how many tables you play at the same time? And do you play on other sites as well?

@Brocky agree, throwing around some weights in the gym or a walk outsides are two good actions that are doing well. Just changing focus for a short period can work well to get a mental boost!

Keep up the work and glad that my question came right in time:)

First:)

GL mate.

Gonna follow your blog, really like it! And don't put to much pressure on you so that you risk a burn out or get unmotivated. Truly the understand the mental aspect you describe in HU games. If you play almost every hand there is no chilling like in a 6max cash game even if you  multi table.

What are your methods to combat eventual mental and tilting times when you are in a period of bad run? Asking due to that I’m interested to see how others deal with it.

GL @Esir! will follow this challenge. Agree with @Nestabear regarding update frequency, would be nice to have it a little ofter occurring.

Are you playing full time?

Successful year for you @MetalWolf! Set new goals for the coming year that you find motivating. I usually find myself to left out on those things I find less fun or interesting. Not saying that is the case for you but I try to ask myself “Why?” I left out certain stuff. It often boils down to the fun factor. Some things in life are for sure a must do and we can not choose if we want to do it. But I believe in that putting priority on the fun things are a great way to achieve goals that are meaningful to one.