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Bitter No More? (problems with SSHE starting hand charts)
I was a 5 BB/hr loser in games I should have been destroying, read everything I could (a stack of books as long as my arm) and still was just getting creamed by the weak fish at limits as low as 1/2 and 2/4.
Then it dawned on me, something I read must have been wrong! There are big problems with these charts in ways I can't even begin to explain... nor would I want to, for fear of educating the fish [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]. Now I am avoiding the bad beats (or at least can take them), and making money on my big hands. - Bitterness is joy with a bad attitude |
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Re: Bitter No More? (problems with SSHE starting hand charts)
Go You!
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Yeah! You have no idea what you're talking about!
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Re: Bitter No More? (problems with SSHE starting hand charts)
Can I get a copy of your new starting hand chart? I've been having similar problems at lower limits (I have had good results at high limits where people respect my raises) and I need to figure out what's going on.
Thanks in advance! Rob |
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Re: Bitter No More? (problems with SSHE starting hand charts)
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Can I get a copy of your new starting hand chart? I've been having similar problems at lower limits (I have had good results at high limits where people respect my raises) and I need to figure out what's going on. Thanks in advance! Rob [/ QUOTE ] This is funny in ways you can't possibly imagine. |
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Re: Bitter No More? (problems with SSHE starting hand charts)
There is no chart, I just stopped using the one in SSHE. Everything else in the book is great advice, though - it vastly improved my postflop play. I can't give too much away, but if you use everything else you know about poker, you'll do swimmingly. When I bank my first million (not including living expenses and any luxury items I may buy), I'll let everyone else in on what exactly is wrong with it.
That strategy set me back a full year (and I had only been playing seriously for 9 months at the time). I was a 1.5-2 BB winner before I read SSHE, and I'm doing much better now (more than 4BB/hr at 2/4), and I my win rate is much more stable. Ed Miller owes me $384 (which is what I lost from when I started using that preflop strategy, from my StatKing data). It got to a point where I couldn't even EAT fish for almost three months - I thought it was mocking me (doing the "You can't touch this" dance, like in Shark Tale). I even dropped all the way back down to .25/.50 to try to find my game, and maybe even just play for fun and give up my dream of going pro. Then I noticed that I had to clear a $100 bonus in a week that I had been sitting on for a while, and the only way I could do it was by playing at least 25-30 hours of 2/4 or higher. I coudn't keep doing what I had been so I just decided to try a different style. Needless to say I had a nice salmon dinner the next night, and enjoyed every bite. So cheer up, everyone who thinks they really are a good, maybe even great player, but their results just aren't showing it - there really is hope! I am now upgrading my mood level from Bitter (Red) to Sullen (Orange). - Bitterness is joy with a bad attitude |
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I was a 1.5-2 BB winner before I read SSHE, and I'm doing much better now (more than 4BB/hr at 2/4), and I my win rate is much more stable. [/ QUOTE ] THis one time, at band camp, we were playing holdem, and my winrate was like 10 BB/100 for like 600 hands. Chris im beggin u what is ur starting hand chart look like? Im glad u finaly found the secret to the whole starting hands thing as that is the true secret to poker. I mean everyone knows how to play postflop already. I just figured winning 2 to 3 bb/100 was running bad. Now i know that i just haveto learn how to play preflop. One tip i can give about BR management is that whenever i have a winrate that is better than average for the day, i take all the surplus money and just spend i t on expensive dinners and other things to treat myself. Cause its like free money at that point [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] |
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Re: Bitter No More? (problems with SSHE starting hand charts)
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One tip i can give about BR management is that whenever i have a winrate that is better than average for the day, i take all the surplus money and just spend i t on expensive dinners and other things to treat myself. Cause its like free money at that point [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] Really? That's kinda dumb. Whenever I have a winning session (everytime I sit) I just withdraw the profits since I'm far too good at poker to go on a downswing. Can't wait to see the PF chart after your first million Chris, hope there's some fish left in the sea for me! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] |
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That hurt my head.
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Re: Bitter No More? (problems with SSHE starting hand charts)
[ QUOTE ]
There is no chart, I just stopped using the one in SSHE. Everything else in the book is great advice, though - it vastly improved my postflop play. I can't give too much away, but if you use everything else you know about poker, you'll do swimmingly. When I bank my first million (not including living expenses and any luxury items I may buy), I'll let everyone else in on what exactly is wrong with it. That strategy set me back a full year (and I had only been playing seriously for 9 months at the time). I was a 1.5-2 BB winner before I read SSHE, and I'm doing much better now (more than 4BB/hr at 2/4), and I my win rate is much more stable. Ed Miller owes me $384 (which is what I lost from when I started using that preflop strategy, from my StatKing data). [/ QUOTE ] So my bad preflop advice cost you $384, but my good postflop advice will help you bank a million! That sounds like a pretty good tradeoff to me! So if I owe you the $384 (or, let's say a small percentage of that like 1-5%) then you should definitely owe me a piece of your million! I think one percent is fair! So from this point forward, let's just say you owe me 1% of your million, or $10,000! You can feel free to pay in monthly installments (with a very reasonable interest rate like, say, 4.25%)! And make sure you deduct the $3.84 I owe you from the first payment! |
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