Re: Don\'t think I can beat 1/2.
 

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How many hands of .50/1.00 did you play? What was your winrate? I suggest 10k hands / 300 BBs (which ever takes _longer_) at each level before moving up. But I'm a nit.

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I played ~10,000 hands with a ~2.5 win rate.

Re: Don\'t think I can beat 1/2.
 

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Re: Don\'t think I can beat 1/2.
 

why move up if you are playing badly? or why continue to play at a limit that upsets you if you are playing badly. sometimes when i know i am not playing my A game i, gasp, play a lower limit unil i work out my issues.

also: linky

and finally, 8k hands? wtf????

Re: Don\'t think I can beat 1/2.
 

Hey,

Can you beat 1/2?? I have no idea.

Can any objective onlooker tell you if you can/can't beat 1/2 by reading a post that has you playing 8200 hands? No.

A lot of us are looking for the kind of comfort that you just can't find in 8k hands or even 20k or 30k hands. If you were to be at 5BB/100 over this span, it would be detrimental to actually think that you could continue it over the next 200k hands or whatever.

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But my biggest leak is just bad fundamental play, mistakes that I shouldn't be making but convince myself to make.

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1. Post your marginal/incorrect hands that you are unsure of here.

2. Post (more) your opininon on hands of other posters.

It's not a shame to be flamed for an error. You don't post hands/opininons to show off and the ppl who reply are definitely not perfect. A lot of the cocky posters are just average players but a lot of other posters really know what they are talking about.

I've been posting a lot of my problematic hands here and I'm not a losing player (so far, so good).

Good luck

Re: Don\'t think I can beat 1/2.
 

Didn't want to show off but why not?

Nice thing is that my final upswing started when I switched to 3/6. Moving up after a 250BB downswing?

Best spot to do it.

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I am realy amazed by how few hands people on these boards play. 8200 hands is NOTHING! My stats for 1$/2$ were like 15k hands +2.76BB/100, 22K hands -.087 BB/100, 25k 2.51BB/100, 30k 3.13BB/100. you seriously need to understand that even 50k hands is a small sample size.

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I am realy amazed by how few hands people on these boards play.

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Sorry doc. I have a real job. And a life.
I like them both.

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I am realy amazed by how few hands people on these boards play.

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Sorry doc. I have a real job. And a life.
I like them both.

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Re: Don\'t think I can beat 1/2.
 

You need to find a way to get the money out of the picture, and just focus on the hand, period.

If you're making mistakes and talking yourself into doing things you're not supposed to be doing, then it is a form of tilt, IMO, and it is probably money-based.

Remember, the bad decisions that you're making are the exact ones we force people to make when we play correctly. Essentially, you're being trapped by that which you know the most.

Take the money out of it, play the hand, and make good poker decisions.

I took the money out of my equation when I found I was focusing on it a bit much by setting myself a hand goal. I never really completed the hand goal itself, but the main reason I was doing it was to get to 1/2, and I'm there now, tearing up the place. I've been running real g00t.

KO