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rgfdxm United States. Nov 02 2007 22:58. Posts 1514 | | |
Well, I've been playing NL10 for about a week and a half now and it's going well, if slow. I had a stretch of ~7000 hands where I was breakeven, which was frustrating since I can't play a whole lot (I work full time). I really thought my edge at NL10 was near 0, but I've started running better again so I'm getting some confidence back. Once I get in another 10k hands or so we'll see how things stand.
I've been trying out some other stuff for fun like SNGs and MTTs. Last weekend I played a couple of $1.10 and $2.20 MTTs and busted out, then played a couple of $2.20 sats to the Sunday Hundred Grand and won a seat, but I couldn't play because my brother needed a ride somewhere right about when the tourney was supposed to start. I unregistered and got the T$ though.
I played a couple of 9-man SNGs and a 45-man I think, busted out of the 45 and won one of the 9-man games but they were $1.10s so it wasn't terribly satisfying. Then I got into the $5 HU SNGs and played a bunch of those this week. HU is fun but frustrating when you run bad. I've had a streak where I run way better than I need to and crush someone, then lose the next by missing every flop of the match. I feel like I have enough of an edge that if I could just run average I'd be fine, but this overkill alternating with inexorable death is annoying. I suppose I shouldn't complain, at least I run well in some of them.
I really don't know what I'm doing too well at the MTT/SNG/HU play, but I think I'm learning. I have a positive ROI at all of them, though, so it's been going well so far.
Ahhh, while I was writing this I was in three $2.20 sats to this week's Sunday Hundred Grand and I just won seats in two of them (busted 16/36 (six seats) in the first one). I like satellites. Seems to be lower variance.
Now that I'm at NL10 I think I can make Silver Star this month, but I'm thinking of moving some of my roll over to RedNines once I hit $500 or so (hopefully this week). Rakeback would be very nice, especially since my bb/100 on NL10 is much lower than NL5 or NL2.
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gj yo, seems like you're progressing way faster than I am, I'm still struggling with NL2 :/ |
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Kapol Poland. Nov 02 2007 23:19. Posts 4696 | | |
Hey, no worries kim. At least you try to learn. One of my friends is going to deposit around $200 and start with NL50, cause on NL10 (he played some on my account) he 'doesn't feel the money'. He has no idea what he's doing, but he thinks he'll be a winning player there, cause he sees so many donks in the game while I play (of course he's a bigger donk than all of them).
I like him but I wish he loses everything in one day, just to see the painful truth. Of coz he's going to 4-table, because he gets frustrated when he 'gets shitty hands all the time' (yea, right). Pathetic. |
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Silver_nz New Zealand. Nov 03 2007 00:18. Posts 5647 | | |
yeah, I don't know what it is about NL10 but it seems many times harder than NL2.
I was winning at 29bb/100 over 30k hands at NL2 but I've been breaking even at NL10 for quite a while. I've been paying like 3 bb/100 or more in rake i think so maybe its that rake starts kicking in on NL10.
But also the players seem more competent, yet they are well mixed, bluffers, nits, and stations so no one style crushes the games. I'm thinking I'll try cutting back to 3 tables and just getting sick good reads on everyones postflop play. |
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lachlan Australia. Nov 03 2007 02:21. Posts 6991 | | |
NL10 can be a grind, i had a 20k breakeven stretch, which makes my win rate look shitty at about 2 PTBB/100 
but im still up $200 from it so i think its just a learning curve, its all about the evolution of nitting it up, to playing a game where you raise and control a lot more |
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Silver_nz New Zealand. Nov 03 2007 02:41. Posts 5647 | | |
lolz, but its not like I changed my game much from NL2 to NL10. its just that NL10 is hard. anyone who finds otherwise on a heater  |
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Silver_nz New Zealand. Nov 03 2007 03:45. Posts 5647 | | |
lol, hey rgfdxm i just realized your avatar on PS is from 'ouran host club' anime isn't it? heh, thats a pretty good show xD |
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rgfdxm United States. Nov 03 2007 09:45. Posts 1514 | | |
Yeah, it is. One of my favorites. And you're right about straight ABC style crushing the game anymore, since there are suddenly lots of people on NL10 who are willing to float cbets. I think that's the one thing that slowed me down a lot, since now you have to have a much better read on opponents to be profitable cbetting. You can't just blindly take down 80+% of the pots you raise preflop. |
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