uFR Challenge, river spew, and semi brag
by sevens on 07/16/09
It’s been a while since I updated…nothing all that exciting to be honest. Just lots of grinding.
So I’m involved in this micro full ring challenge where we get a bunch of players together, pick teams, and then see which team can come up with the highest total winrate at the end of the month. Since I signed up for 50nl, I decided to set my goal at playing 20k hands at 50nl, 20k hands at 100nl. So tonight I played like 3k hands or so, made it to 21k hands, and called it good. Over that sample, I’m 9.8 bb/100, or 4.9 PTBB/100, which I’m totally happy with. But it could be better.
See, I have this bad habit. Whenever I’m facing a river bet and I have a decent hand, I always want to call. It’s like my fold button just disappears and I’m left with “call” or “raise” as my only two options. I even spew called a river bet with KQ high tonight. =/ Like…..I know everything is situational and sometimes calling with KQ high is the right play. But I was playing against a regular whos like 20x better than me. Here’s the thing - your edge against solid regs is going to be very minimal if at all. We make money in poker by playing against bad players - fish, BAD regs, loose passives, etc etc - and not by trying to out-level solid regs. If I could stop doing that stuff and fold more on the river, my winrate would be much higher.
On that note, I have a semi brag that I accomplished tonight. I played some poker at work (silly front desk job at my college) and decided my goal for the night after getting home was that I would grind until I hit $5k in my bankroll, no matter how long it took. I needed to grind out like 5 BIs. 2 and a half hours later, after playing pretty solid and stacking some really bad players (starting tables FTW!), I hit my goal. So I’m halfway to the big number, the 5 figure roll, and it’d be great to hit that in the next 3 or 4 months, as I’m moving up to 100nl and hopefully 200nl by the end of the summer.
So anyways, that’s about it, things have been going pretty good, a little swingy, but overall pretty damned good.
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So I’m involved in this micro full ring challenge where we get a bunch of players together, pick teams, and then see which team can come up with the highest total winrate at the end of the month. Since I signed up for 50nl, I decided to set my goal at playing 20k hands at 50nl, 20k hands at 100nl. So tonight I played like 3k hands or so, made it to 21k hands, and called it good. Over that sample, I’m 9.8 bb/100, or 4.9 PTBB/100, which I’m totally happy with. But it could be better.
See, I have this bad habit. Whenever I’m facing a river bet and I have a decent hand, I always want to call. It’s like my fold button just disappears and I’m left with “call” or “raise” as my only two options. I even spew called a river bet with KQ high tonight. =/ Like…..I know everything is situational and sometimes calling with KQ high is the right play. But I was playing against a regular whos like 20x better than me. Here’s the thing - your edge against solid regs is going to be very minimal if at all. We make money in poker by playing against bad players - fish, BAD regs, loose passives, etc etc - and not by trying to out-level solid regs. If I could stop doing that stuff and fold more on the river, my winrate would be much higher.
On that note, I have a semi brag that I accomplished tonight. I played some poker at work (silly front desk job at my college) and decided my goal for the night after getting home was that I would grind until I hit $5k in my bankroll, no matter how long it took. I needed to grind out like 5 BIs. 2 and a half hours later, after playing pretty solid and stacking some really bad players (starting tables FTW!), I hit my goal. So I’m halfway to the big number, the 5 figure roll, and it’d be great to hit that in the next 3 or 4 months, as I’m moving up to 100nl and hopefully 200nl by the end of the summer.
So anyways, that’s about it, things have been going pretty good, a little swingy, but overall pretty damned good.
I vi
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