So I finally made it to my first landmark of 10,000 hands. So now is a good time to review my good plays, bad plays, and hand selection choices I've made over the past 3 weeks. After some in-depth review, I definitely found some holes in my game. I also confirmed statistically, that certain things I do do in fact work.
1st hole - Playing marginal-hands out of position, hitting the flop, and then bleeding money.
2nd hole - Calling all-ins with big draws when pot-odds are incorrect.
3rd hole - Betting the river when the board is dangerous and I don't hold the nuts.
In I could have saved about $50 from the hands I made these mistakes on. Doesn't sound like a lot but when putting things in perspective, that is about 15% the size of my current bankroll. Definitely significant.
Things I'm doing correctly:
1. Pocket Pairs - Very profitable in any position on the table. I'll almost call any reasonable raise pre-flop if the player's stack is large enough.
2. Continuation Bets - Profitable. I win 79% of the hands I c-bet on the flop without going to showdown, very impressive. C-betting is also very profitable.
I also added some more gadgets to the blog. Not sure if I like them or not.
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3 comments:
Congrats on sticking with it, and profitably at that! Some responses...
-Out of position = bad! (glad your recognizing that)
-You don't want to be calling all-ins with draws.
If its a hand you've decide to go with, play it where your the one pushing/checkraising all-in.
-Value betting on the river is something that takes practice and is very player dependent.(Ask yourself before making the bet, what hand can this player call you with that you beat. The player dependent part determines how marginal to go when trying to get value on the river. The looser the player, the more marginal your hand can be to get value from it.)
-Pocket pairs and flopping set = money in the bank! (Just make sure implied odds are there)
-Continuation bet = good!
Hope your next 10,000 goes as good dude!
Nice work, much better then my stats but mine are going up, I'm at 5.6k so far. I want to post a graph but not sure where to upload a picture, you should see if there is a gadget that lets you upload pictures to the blog.
Try photobucket. They do free picture hosting. Then you can link to the pictures. they said they also host videos but I don't know how much space you get. I'll look around for other hosting options we can all use over the weekend.
I'm glad you guys have taken a real interest in the blog. I think it has been a real good way to communicate and share stuff.
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