how many hands have you played?

[sh58]

thought it would be interesting to see how many hands people have played sine they took up poker seriously, and also how far people want to go with their poker career

list the amount of hands you have played at each level NL50+, and then how many you want to play at your current limit before you move up.

i think it will be interesting to see the contrast between people who rush through the levels and people like Fgators who play millions of hands at one level.

[sh58]

i'll start.

i started taking poker seriously in april playing NL50

NL50 - 30k
NL100 - 40k
NL200 - 35k

so as you can see, i am fairly inexperienced at poker (i'm a quick learner...)

i plan on playing maybe 100k hands at NL200, then moving up to NL400 when i also have a 20k roll.

NL600 is about as far as i have thought ahead

[1gotth3nuts]

well i played solely donkaments till this april and i had a sufficient roll so i just started at 100nl, instead of lots of people who i'd assume start lower. so im still figuring things out so ill probably be at 100nl for a while longer... my goal is to make 15k profits at 100nl before moving up to 200nl. ive played liek 120k hands at 100nl right now

[Shizzle12345]

NL50 about 30k hands
NL100 about 70k hands
NL200 about 50k hands

[thac]

I averaged this up sometime last month and it ended up being approximately 500k hands total

[Randiek]

I truly grinded trough the stakes; Since end of june (I went trough 10NL first;
8k hands at 25NL
44K hands at 50NL
5k hands at 100NL

Took me a very long time to finally have enough roll to move up safely due to a couple of big downswings at 50NL. My bankroll limits the level I play at, so far, not the opponent's skill level. Soon I may have to cash out a part of my roll to pay for some [censored] so I will probably hang around at 100NL for a loooong time.

[spivey]

50NL FR - 3k
100NL FR - 2k
100NL 6max - 9k
200NL 6max - 18k

[censored] grinding, I gotta get paid.

[shandyboy]

played 100s and 100s of SNGs before cash. Then:

50nl - 20k hands.
100nl - 100k hands.
200nl - 25k hands. Then withdrew $15k for flat deposit.

100nl - 50k hands (rebuilding roll).

prolly 30-50k more hands until back to nl200.

[TianYuan]

I started poker last week of November 2006 with 50$, playing super nit mode at NL2 (/w 2$ buyin as I was following a 25 buyin rule and 2$ is 100bb since stars NL2 plays 200bb deep). Started 12 tabling after a couple of days.

According to Stars I've played 600 000 hands on their site.
According to my database I've played 100 000 hands on stars between May - August (moved to Prima first week of august). 10k NL25, 50k NL50, 36k NL100.
I played next to no hands in March as most of my money was stuck in neteller.
I played 30k hands on UB in April.

So somehow I managed to play 500 000 hands between what is essentially December and February, I'm still trying to figure out how, but I guess 12 tabling 10 hours a day for a while leads to that.. (and I went on sick life tilt after I failed my first shot at NL50 in January, managing to go from 1k to 300$ in 2 days - lose 4 buyins at NL50, lose rest at NL25, I mean I was running really bad but I was also extremely tilted).

I was running really good after the first few weeks (I was making 10 buyins a day at NL10, and I'm not exaggerating, given how little I knew about poker that's pretty hot), so I wasted a lot of time in february "trying to make it back", but was too tilted. Around this time I realized that playing 12 tables of stacked 6 max tables was a really [censored] stupid idea.

I've played about 83 000 hands on Prima between August and November. I started out at NL100 there, 8 tabling but about halfway through I realized I REALLY couldn't play 8 tables on their software (too fast but also too clumsy), so I've been 4 tabling ever since.
39k hands NL100
34.6k hands NL200
About 6.6k hands NL300
2k~ hands of NL100 headsup.

I still don't get how I played those first 500 000 hands, I mean sure, I grinded out a few 13k hand sessions (12 NL10 full ring tables stacked on top of eachother with a movie running = best way to learn, AMIRITE?) but I also barely played for parts of January as far as I can remember.

As for the future, eh, I've decided to put off moving up and learn heads-up instead (I've got some pretty [censored] results in heads-up so far [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]) so I'm going to be playing NL100 HU over a few different sites this month, hopefully I can get a decent amount of hands in (I've been so lazy the last few months).

I had a lot of trouble getting away from some weak-tight tendencies in my play, and not going on auto-pilot. I also tend to play too long sessions when losing leading to some epic graphs like this one from NL50:

And I blame it all on rekrul for making a comment in some monthly results thread to the effect of: "Lol you played 20k hands? I played 10k hands today".
That or my ridiculous donkey-headed stubborness.

Btw, I think Tinga18 posts on here, if you see this, do you remember this session? You were on my left on a few tables and I was tilting sooo hard, I think I spewed 5 buyins to you or so (a few were legitimate coolers tho of course, but I spewed a loooot, one of the few times I was actually tilting in the normal sense of the world, I usually just play my C- game when on tilt).

[sh58]

lol. 14 BI downswing in 1 session. i would have stopped at hand 4000 probably. you grind hardcore. i only seem to average 20k-30k hands a month 4 tabling