| Posted by: YogiDane at May 7, 2007, 11:41 pm | | Topic: Some input on my game Forum: Bonus Whores | Thanks to all for their input. I will try to work in what you guys have said, and see if this makes my game stronger.
After an additional 8000 hands I will post and update.
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| Posted by: mike_m235 at May 7, 2007, 9:30 pm | | Topic: Some input on my game Forum: Bonus Whores | YogiDane wrote: Hmmm....since I'm new it might be a rookie mistake, but isn't there two screendumps of my pokertracker stats?
mike_m235 wrote: you just want random advice, or did you have hand histories and poker tracker stats you wanted to provide?
If you don't have pokertracker, then the first piece of advice is "get pokertracker."
THere are now. They weren't there when I posted originally. At least not on my screen. Odd.
To be winning as much as you are with the stats you have, I think you've got to be making outstanding table selection decisions. The strategy you are playing is one that will work very well against weak players, but in theory should get chopped up against stronger players over time.
I think you'll have a rough time moving to 100 and 200 NL SH unless you open your game up a bit.
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| Posted by: krummpoker at May 7, 2007, 9:04 pm | | Topic: Some input on my game Forum: Bonus Whores | DrStrange wrote: Perhaps the safest thing to try with is adding more continuation bets after a preflop raise. The risk is limited since you know your hand is garbage and not waste more money on it - just make the c-bet and see if people fold enough times for it to be profitable.
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| Posted by: DrStrange at May 7, 2007, 8:50 pm | | Topic: Some input on my game Forum: Bonus Whores | Perhaps the safest thing to try with is adding more continuation bets after a preflop raise. The risk is limited since you know your hand is garbage and not waste more money on it - just make the c-bet and see if people fold enough times for it to be profitable.
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| Posted by: krummpoker at May 7, 2007, 7:54 pm | | Topic: Some input on my game Forum: Bonus Whores | wow honestly I don't know how you are doing so well with that conservative play on SH NL.. I play a little higher NL so maybe its a little different. I have found in general, from playing way conservative to me now playing way aggressive, that aggression is the way to go SH NL. I think this often depends on your post flop skills though as I def wouldn't be as comfortable playing this aggressive 2 years ago.
I did decent being conservative but at times it seemed I was too predictable or the cards wouldn't come. If you can continue to win with the frequency you do now, change nothing. why would you? as hawgman says "adding aggression to you game can be a recipe for disaster." Meaning, I'd often hesitate to tell someone with your style of play to "steal more blinds, raise more hands, blah blah" because if you start doing this without understanding how to do it "disaster" is exactly what happens. Therefore, if you'd like to change your game up with some of the good advice ot... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: DrStrange at May 7, 2007, 1:41 pm | | Topic: Some input on my game Forum: Bonus Whores | I was a bit surprised to see you win at a 4BB(pt)/100 rate after I looked over your stats. +4BB(pt)/100 is statistically significant over 12,000 hands (your true win rate is somewhere between +1 and +7 BB(pt)/100 95% of the time)
Here are the things that I see as potential problems. However I hesitate to suggest that a winning player should make big shifts in their game. No limit supports a lot of different sucessful styles.
Preflop raise of 7% is too low. It would be borderline low in a full ring game. In a short handed game, 7% PFR is much too selective.
As tight as your preflop raise range is, you should be making a continuation bet on the flop nearly 100% of the time. As it is, you are making a continuation bet only half the time. Not only are you missing out on many small pots (many people fold to a c-bet if they missed), but you also telegraph that you aren't bluffing when you do bet.
Your total aggression is 40% post flop. This means that 40% of the... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: hawgman_dan at May 7, 2007, 11:55 am | | Topic: Some input on my game Forum: Bonus Whores | You are winning at 8bb/100, which is not a bad win rate. I doubt your going to win a lot more than that playing TAG without good table selection. Having said that comparing your stats to mine I think you’re a little more conservative than I am and I think I’m too conservative. Your pf raise is too low at 7% (mine is 9% which is low), as is your attempts to steal blinds. Remember you figure to have the best hand pf 17% of the time at a six-way table and 33% of the time on the button vs. the blinds (plus positional advantage).
You may be giving up on hands to quickly: you fold pf 62 % on the flop 28 %, turn 22%, river 20% as compared to my 56%,24%,19%,18%. You are betting, raising, and calling less than I am post flop on every street. I also defend my blinds more that you do, but I’m not sure that I’m more profitable because of it.
So in summary I think you could improve by being a little more loose aggressive, but it hard to suggest how to do that by just looking at your s... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: YogiDane at May 7, 2007, 10:01 am | | Topic: Some input on my game Forum: Bonus Whores | Hmmm....since I'm new it might be a rookie mistake, but isn't there two screendumps of my pokertracker stats?
mike_m235 wrote: you just want random advice, or did you have hand histories and poker tracker stats you wanted to provide?
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| Posted by: mike_m235 at May 7, 2007, 9:04 am | | Topic: Some input on my game Forum: Bonus Whores | you just want random advice, or did you have hand histories and poker tracker stats you wanted to provide?
If you don't have pokertracker, then the first piece of advice is "get pokertracker."
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| Posted by: YogiDane at May 7, 2007, 8:18 am | | Topic: Some input on my game Forum: Bonus Whores | I have been playing online-poker for about 18 months, it has mostly been bonus-whoring. But about 3-4 months ago I decided to try playing winning poker. I would however like to have some input on what I can do to improve my game.
I play 50NL SH.
Any input is welcome. Thanks in advance.
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