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Adde
08-20-2003, 03:19 PM
Small stakes online holdem, $1/2 and $2/4, mainly at Partypoker and mainly full tables.

Looking at my stats (10k hands in PokerTracker) I see, to no surprise, that the blinds are the only positions that I am not an overall winner in, which leads to the following thought:

Is it possible to be an overall winner in the blind positions, or should I at best hope to minimize the losses?
Ed Miller
08-20-2003, 03:28 PM
No.. you can't win in the blinds. That's like asking, "can I play every hand and win?"
slavic
08-20-2003, 03:31 PM
Most players loose money overall in the blinds. If somebody doesn't it would only be in the small blind and I highly doubt it. My first 5000 hands or so I was actually to the positive in the SB, but as I stepped up and the games became tougher that went away.

The latest version of Pokertracker shows your winnings from the blinds by taking out the forced bet aspect. It's a little overinflated but it gives you some idea of how you play.
rjc199
08-20-2003, 09:27 PM
I noticed an anomaly in my poker tracker where I am a winner in the SB and BB, this is probably just a short term deal, I don't think I have enough hands to qualify as being long term. I play 0.5/1

In SB 194 times I'm +$32.50
In BB 210 times I'm +$7.00

As a contrast in 195 times on the button I'm only +$1.25
Tosh
08-20-2003, 09:48 PM
[ QUOTE ]
I noticed an anomaly in my poker tracker where I am a winner in the SB and BB, this is probably just a short term deal, I don't think I have enough hands to qualify as being long term. I play 0.5/1

In SB 194 times I'm +$32.50
In BB 210 times I'm +$7.00

As a contrast in 195 times on the button I'm only +$1.25

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah thats an extremely small sample size. Over the long term that'll change.
Adde
08-21-2003, 06:14 AM
>> No.. you can't win in the blinds. That's like
>> asking, "can I play every hand and win?"

Excelent argument! Case closed:-)
rigoletto
08-21-2003, 07:18 AM
I don't want to nitpick over this - wait a minute, I do want to nitpick. You can't win every hand in the blinds, but if your win big enough pots it is possible (but not plausible) to win in the blinds. Imagene a table where everybody calls preflop and you are the superior postflop player!