First 5K Hands + Intro

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SpeedyJack United States. Nov 22 2008 15:19. Posts 618

I'm SpeedyJack. I'm a college student and have had an interest in poker for a while now. In the past I played Starcraft and DotA, at average and high levels, respectively. I figured poker would fit my personality nicely, I have a strong attention span and though I'm pretty excitable I don't change moods easily. I decided to commit a bankroll to pokerstars and grind out 10K hands at .01/.02 to get some base numbers and tell if the books I've read and the websites/blogs I've followed were worth anything.

I'm about halfway through and though I've entertained the thought of moving up from .01/.02 I've decided to grind them all out. I've been playing for a little under two weeks and only 5K hands, and as I understand the importance of large sample sizes for meaningful numbers I don't assume anything to be permanent. I have been spewing some chips trying to get a handle on exactly what these people will re-raise me with, but as I continue I don't find any need to call down to know what they have, there are only a couple types of players at this level and I can usually tell by their better patterns (or lackthereof) exactly what they're holding.

My play style is shaping up to be fairly aggressive (21.1/17.7/3.9), but as I said the sample is only 5K hands so that could easily shift a bit. I started off at two tables, but quickly realized I could double that with no ill effects, I now six table and am feeling pretty comfortable, I see no reason I won't be on eight in a short while. I'll post an update at 10K hands before I move up, but if everything continues as it is I'll finish these 10K then play 5K profitably at every level I move up to until my bankroll restricts me (I'm using 30 BI as a baseline number) and then simply grind until I can move up at other levels.

Good luck to all who read.

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EXCELED Canada. Nov 22 2008 15:37. Posts 401

cool man welcome to LP. keep it up

joLin United States. Nov 22 2008 19:17. Posts 3818

love the nonshowdown winnings. keep it up.

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RaiZ France. Nov 22 2008 22:12. Posts 1503

I still don't understand how we can get an AF of 3% or more... Would be appreciated if you could share ur experience ^_^

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SpeedyJack United States. Nov 23 2008 00:56. Posts 618

On November 22 2008 21:12 RaiZ wrote:
I still don't understand how we can get an AF of 3% or more... Would be appreciated if you could share ur experience ^_^

Well I don't have much experience to share, all I can tell you is what I think while I play.

Anytime I think my opponent didn't make his hand I play mine like I did, that's pretty much it.

ikc5 United States. Nov 25 2008 04:08. Posts 406

On November 22 2008 21:12 RaiZ wrote:
I still don't understand how we can get an AF of 3% or more... Would be appreciated if you could share ur experience ^_^

More than simply betting and raising a lot, it's refusing to call postflop. You should more or less eliminate the "check call" line from your repertoire, check calling oop is one of the worst things you can do in hold'em anyway and your aggression factor will go up quite a lot if you avoid doing it in general. I guess having a high AF basically just means preference toward raising, betting, and folding as opposed to flat calling postflop. You don't need to be super aggressive and bluff a ton to have a high AF, just stop calling postflop. Frankly the only spots, speaking in purely general terms, there's obvious exceptions, you should be calling postflop is in position when you want to float, keep the size of the pot small with weaker/medium strength hands, or induce action on later streets.

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