8-Table 3/6 Extremely Tight = 100k/year? (low content)

[Derek132260]

Okay, so I've only tried this so far for about 20 hours...but thus far, it's working.

If I 8-table at 3/6 and literally only play AA-77 + AK + AQs, AJs, KQs...through about 11,000 hands, I'm up about 1.75 BB/100. I don't think that will continue...but if I can maintain just 1BB/100, I can make 100-grand over the course of a year.

8-tabling has thus far given me about 550 hands per hour. At that rate, I get about $14/hour just in rakeback. Add that to 1BB/100 (another $33/hour), and you have a $47/hour situation...work 41 hours a week, and that's more than 100 G's a year.

I guess I'll continue with this strategy until it either doesn't work or until someone explains why it won't. Does anyone on these boards employ such a strategy...what are the pros, cons, etc. Basically, is this too good to be true? And if so, why? Thanks.

-Derek

[spamuell]

Your BB/100 expectations seem realistic if you can play reasonably post-flop, but the number of hours you can put in during a week without burning out don't.

[imported_leader]

"If I 8-table at 3/6 and literally only play AA-77 + AK + AQs, AJs, KQs...through about 11,000 hands, I'm up about 1.75 BB/100. "
I seriously doubt this is a long term winning strategy. Even if it is you could do much better.

[Derek132260]

That's a reasonable point...I'm pretty young, and therefore I think have a fair amount of endurance. But I wonder what might be a reasonable amount of hours to avoid long-term burnout?

[spamuell]

It really depends on you. I find that 8-tabling at all makes me lose the will to live, I could probably do it for about 2 hours/week.

I think people generally shoot for 20-30.

[ihardlyknowher]

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Okay, so I've only tried this so far for about 20 hours...but thus far, it's working.

If I 8-table at 3/6 and literally only play AA-77 + AK + AQs, AJs, KQs...through about 11,000 hands, I'm up about 1.75 BB/100. I don't think that will continue...but if I can maintain just 1BB/100, I can make 100-grand over the course of a year.

8-tabling has thus far given me about 550 hands per hour. At that rate, I get about $14/hour just in rakeback. Add that to 1BB/100 (another $33/hour), and you have a $47/hour situation...work 41 hours a week, and that's more than 100 G's a year.

I guess I'll continue with this strategy until it either doesn't work or until someone explains why it won't. Does anyone on these boards employ such a strategy...what are the pros, cons, etc. Basically, is this too good to be true? And if so, why? Thanks.

-Derek

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You could continue to develop your poker game, and make $500,000 a year 8-tabling 15/30 full time eventually. And it would be a lot more interesting.

[toss]

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I find that 8-tabling at all makes me lose the will to live

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Haha so true. Sometimes when I'm loooking for some good tables and see 30+ people on the waiting list I think "I'll just kill myself instead."

[Jeff W]

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You could continue to develop your poker game, and make $500,000 a year 8-tabling 15/30 full time eventually. And it would be a lot more interesting.

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Sorry, wishful thinking.

[Seether]

Playing like this will not improve your game. Also the games will get tougher over time and your profits will slowly drop. So I reccomend working on your game and improving to higher limits than "farming" a low limit game for a long period of time.

[mtdoak]

First off, thats entirely too tight preflop. There are alot of hands with positive expectation in there, esp if you have position. If you have only played 20 hrs a week of poker...playing 40 is a grind of its own. Esp. over a loooong year. Would it be possible to make 100k in a year 8 tabling 3/6? Yes. Would I believe someone if they told me that they did it? Probably not. Esp. if they told me that that was their preflop strategy. That'll put you at a VPIP of what, 10% or lower? The longer you play and the more of a rock reputation you get, the less action you'll get, esp from Regulars who use PlayerView/Poker Edge. My advice: stop thinking of poker of a means to an easy 6 figure salary, because #1 its not easy, esp at 40 hours a week, and #2 I think you'll be sorely dissapointed in your results.

The reason all of us play poker is for money, but the goal shouldn't be to make x amount over this period of time, the goal should be to become the best poker player you can be, and that, over the sample space of our lives, we can be consistent winning players at whatever level we choose to end up at.

[Entity]

I would rather shoot myself in the head than 8-table $3/6 for 41 hours per week.

[shant]

This is exactly why I 41-table the 3/6 for 8 hours a week.

[Rah]

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Playing like this will not improve your game. Also the games will get tougher over time and your profits will slowly drop. So I reccomend working on your game and improving to higher limits than "farming" a low limit game for a long period of time.

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First of all, he wants to make money, not improve his game. Second, there is no way of telling whether online games will be tougher or not in the future.

[Rah]

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"If I 8-table at 3/6 and literally only play AA-77 + AK + AQs, AJs, KQs...through about 11,000 hands, I'm up about 1.75 BB/100. "
I seriously doubt this is a long term winning strategy. Even if it is you could do much better.

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Of course it's a winning strategy, if the games are soft enough.
If by doing better, you mean playing more hands, you must consider that he's playing eight tables. If hero has time to play more hands, he should be adding tables, not play looser.