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Trying To understand my loses
I have been doing really badly on Prima.
Suffer there more than anywhere else. I have my fair share of bad beats (like losing $102 with AA all-in pre-flop). However, looking over my stats I see that most over my lost money seems from small amounts. I am talking about NL $100 (0.50/1.0 nlinda) Out of my total hands played (5,237) only 46 have loses of $10 or more as opposed to over 60 wins over over $10. All the rest are smallish numbers with many of them being 1 or 2 dollars. Problem is that these mount up very quickly. The $102 loss today with the AA is by far the biggest loss I have had with one hand. In fact the next hand down is -40 and the one after that is -25. On the other hand - I have 2 big wins (over 90 each) and many more over 40 and over 25. So, where is all the money going? Am I not making enough out of my wins (doesn't appear so since I have some nice big wins)? There are many hands, of course, where I am losing just the blinds. In the BB I am down $404 after posting total blinds of $1,000. in the SB I am down $287 after positng blinds of $500. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Re: Trying yo understand my loses
a) play less tables
b) tighten up pre-flop c) look over all your big winners & losers for any given session d) post hands. |
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Re: Trying yo understand my loses
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a) play less tables [/ QUOTE ] Maybe I should try that. I play 3 or 4 at once. Maybe I will switch to one and see how I do. [ QUOTE ] b) tighten up pre-flop [/ QUOTE ] Already my VPIP is only 14.5%. And this is for 6-max. [ QUOTE ] c) look over all your big winners & losers for any given session. [/ QUOTE ] I try to but never seem to know exactly what I am looking for. [ QUOTE ] d) post hands. [/ QUOTE ] I do that. But, as above, it is difficult to know what hands to post. |
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Re: Trying yo understand my loses
VPIP of 14.5 is definitely tight.
#1. - Don't play Prima I had horrible luck there too. |
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Re: Trying yo understand my loses
everybody's numbers in bb is down and most likely sb as well.
its impossible without a pattern mapper to be positive money in bb. |
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everybody's numbers in bb is down and most likely sb as well. its impossible without a pattern mapper to be positive money in bb. [/ QUOTE ] what is a pattern mapper? |
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[ QUOTE ] everybody's numbers in bb is down and most likely sb as well. its impossible without a pattern mapper to be positive money in bb. [/ QUOTE ] what is a pattern mapper? [/ QUOTE ] something that allows you to know what cards are coming up. |
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Re: Trying yo understand my loses
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] everybody's numbers in bb is down and most likely sb as well. its impossible without a pattern mapper to be positive money in bb. [/ QUOTE ] what is a pattern mapper? [/ QUOTE ] something that allows you to know what cards are coming up. [/ QUOTE ] ahhh.. one of those might improve my game.. |
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Re: Trying yo understand my loses
Your post isn't really specific, but I'll try to help.
#1 Are you playing within your bankroll? If you're upset about these losses, which seem insignificant to me, I'm thinking you aren't. Also, if you can't handle losing a buy-in by getting Aces cracked, I think you should reconsider playing cards. If you got your money in preflop with the best hand, you played right. #2 Have you looked at your starting hand requirements? Are you opening or worse yet, open-limping with marginal holdings out of position? I really think that you need to look at this closely. If most of your losses are small, then you're likely limping out of position with weak holdings and check-folding the flop. As you said, these add up. #3 I'll say it now because someone's going to beat me to it: 5K hands is a small sample size (and I'm liberal about sample sizes). Hope this helps. |
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Re: Trying yo understand my loses
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#1 Are you playing within your bankroll? If you're upset about these losses, which seem insignificant to me, I'm thinking you aren't. Also, if you can't handle losing a buy-in by getting Aces cracked, I think you should reconsider playing cards. [/ QUOTE ] I probably shouldn't have quoted that specific AA case. Losing those is not what upset me (though I didn't ENJOY it). I was talking about my overall numbers. That's why I stated the fact that I seem to have loads of small loses rather than many big ones. [ QUOTE ] #2 Have you looked at your starting hand requirements? Are you opening or worse yet, open-limping with marginal holdings out of position? I really think that you need to look at this closely. If most of your losses are small, then you're likely limping out of position with weak holdings and check-folding the flop. As you said, these add up. [/ QUOTE ] That sounds like a good direction. I will try to focus more on the smallish loses. As you say, I will look at hands where I limped pre-flop and then folded on the flop. Of course, many of them will be ok (like small PP etc.) but I am sure I will find many ones that are not. |
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