It's time to move up. (some content)

[Paxosmotic]

My main game is 2/4 and I'm friggin paxosmotic.

[Str8Fish]

This is the graph of 2/4 on all sites I've played... 90% of it is from the Bad Beat Tables at party, so I'm not sure how much that took away from this winrate. The rest have been from grinding it out at WPEX. In the last 3k hands, I've had a monsterous downswing, which was a combination of bad play and a lot of variance. Tiltaholic just reviewed one of the sessions where I was just almost at my wits end and there were some tilty hands in there. I have, however, been on a hot-streak due largely in part to how well I've taken up notes on individuals while playing at WPEX. Some people became obvious folds in hands while others I value bet religiously. It's been great... I was hoping to get out of the 125BB downswing before trying to move up to 3/6, which I'm hoping happens within a few months or so.



Here's my stats:

[Str8Fish]

Scary Tiger, can I be you one day? Will you teach me?

[Paxosmotic]

There are a TON of people in micros that need to move up. I'm not proposing a mass exodus of us from the micros forum, but I'm proposing a mass exodus of us from the micros forum. Yes, it's cool that everytime some of us post, everyone reads our posts and just inherently knows that we're right. My ability to spout nonsense like "raise AQo preflop" and "you can't overcall with bottom pair here" is unmatched. Those of us who play 2/4 and above need to move to the small stakes forum and leave this forum alone. This forum is for people who are learning the ropes and climbing in limits, not for the 12-15 regulars we have here to circle jerk each other going "gee we sure are good at beating .5/1 aren't we"

What do you say, guys? Move our krew to small stakes?

Incidently, no matter how many times I do it, it's always funny. Feel free to use this one. If you're ever in a group of any size and meeting a new person, it is always hilarious to introduce yourself by saying "hi there, I'm kool, and this is the gang."

[tiltaholic]

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My main game is 2/4 and I'm friggin paxosmotic.

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if your main game is 2/4 i think you should move up.

[Str8Fish]

wait... did I do this calc right?

BBJ rake = $314
# hands from party = 16,123
BB/100 = $314/16,123*(1BB/$4)*100 = 0.5 BB/100 contribution to the jackpot.

well that sucks knowing I never won one. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

I am absolutely crushing WPEX on top of the rakeback. God I love WPEX... they have 6-max tables now on all levels FYI.

[Paxosmotic]

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My main game is 2/4 and I'm friggin paxosmotic.

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if your main game is 2/4 i think you should move up.

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BZZT, WRONG! It was a trick question. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] In truth, I am at 2/4 because I am currently undedicated to poker and not really in "learning" mode, I'm just in auto pilot "give me money in exchange for ABC poker" mode. I can comfortably play 15/30 (as demonstrated by my luckboxing in the NC thread), but as far as saying "okay, my game is now 5/10", I am not in the right place mentally. In a few weeks I may be, but right now I'm working 11 hour days and my life's in a state of general disarray. But I'm sure you already knew that, heartbreaker. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[tiltaholic]

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This is the graph of 2/4 on all sites I've played... 90% of it is from the Bad Beat Tables at party, so I'm not sure how much that took away from this winrate. The rest have been from grinding it out at WPEX. In the last 3k hands, I've had a monsterous downswing, which was a combination of bad play and a lot of variance. Tiltaholic just reviewed one of the sessions where I was just almost at my wits end and there were some tilty hands in there. I have, however, been on a hot-streak due largely in part to how well I've taken up notes on individuals while playing at WPEX. Some people became obvious folds in hands while others I value bet religiously. It's been great... I was hoping to get out of the 125BB downswing before trying to move up to 3/6, which I'm hoping happens within a few months or so.



Here's my stats:



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dear str8fish,

you are a winning player at 2/4 and could beat 3/6+ too. you need to be more aggressive sometimes, and other times less aggressive. obviously that statement doesn't help you very much, but it is a 100% accurate description of what you need to do to "improve". i say this both from reviewing your hands, and from the stats snippet above.

on the more aggressive side, you likely would profit from raising more preflop and "stealing" more. also don't give up on overcards -- they have, as we say, "outs" and often improve to what we call "the best hand".

on the less aggressive side, well, sometimes you should fold when even i can see you are beat. (and i NEVER see that).

finally, don't take my specific receommendations above to heart because they are just vague oversimplifications that aren't based on your own personal table conditions.

that said, i see a move up in your future.

[OziBattler]

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aussiebattler, nomadtla, str8fish and the rest of those types.

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all 3 of those clowns should move up. easy.

aussie is an aussie and needs to be challenged. it's in his genetical makeup. clearly he should move up.

nomadtla plays like .02/.04 - easy move up.

str8fish is borderline (i reviewed his session--- BURN!). KIDDING. (reverse burn!) - yeah, he should move up too.

will comment further should they post details, but yeah, move up boys.

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I write my good posts by cheating from what everyone else writes then I pretend I know what Im talking about. isnt that what everyone else does? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

this is the graph that I was going to post in my 1k post but didnt because posts with pics are like porno mags....I know you guys will only look at the pictures!



the sections roughly resemble the stages in my 1k post....I also didnt include it cos my sample sizes are [censored].

the main thing for me is to actually get a somewhat decent winrate at 0.5/1 and to plug my high W2SD leak that has plagued me but was previously hidden from me by ubersoft tables at 25c/50c and below. Actually the leak plugging is more important than the winrate but lets face it....we all want to be winners. The plugging is working.

I do however have somewhat of a plan....play 0.5/1 till im satisfied that I beat 0.5/1, whore it up, wait for hockey season to finish (then I get more free time) and Ill take a shot at 1/2 and by whoring it up at 0.5/1 now I hope to be able to make that an overrolled shot at 1/2 so that I can go to what str8 tells me are the greener pastures of 2/4. more time at 0.5/1 = less time at rocky 1/2. But all this seems so far away since life means Im lucky to play 4k hands a month right now. Thats ok. I like life.

jax, you got that quote that Smurf made about knowing that you are beating a limit the winrate wont matter?

[Rev. Good Will]

I tried moving up to 1/2 short before a few months ago(I barely play full ring anymore)

As you can see I got whooped.

At UB now, and I occasionally crack open a 1/2 Kill game due to the action junkies it attracts when short handed.

But I have this irrational fear of sitting down at a normal 1/2 shorthanded table.

EDIT - my roll isn't as big as that will tell you. I hate myself for cashing out several times, as it hindered the growth of my roll (full stats aren't up, I made decent $ from 5k hands of NL+ 300 SnG's). Right now I have $1K, and feel like I should be playing much higher stakes than I do now, comparing that the normal 2p2 poster who spent almost 2 years on this board is probably way past .5/1