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[Lost Wages]

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1) After 200K hands at Party 1/2 and 1/2 6 max, I made as much in rakeback as I did from playing the game.


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Then there is no doubt that you play poorly.

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2) Following the starting hand charts in SSHE will not make you a TAG (eagle or money bag in PT). At best, you will have a 20-23% VP$IP. In order to get that down, you need to very carfully select the situations in which you play particular types of hands and you find the right conditions come along pretty infrequently.


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Try using the tight games chart. But of course, as you have realized, the chart is only a guide.

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If you play too tight for your game you will be missing out on some profit opportunity. If you play too loose, you give up some of the profit you made from loosening up.


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It is much better to play too tight than too loose in a full game. Playing too tight costs very little, playing too loose costs a lot.

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3)A lot of the Advice in SSHE goes out the window as soon as your opponent has half a brain about odds and outs. This was a frequent critism of the book when it came out and I am moving into games where I find it to be true.

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I disagree and I am not aware of this "frequent criticism".

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4) the onine poker landscape is changing. The games are getting tighter, players are getting smarter, pots are getting smaller and win rate is dropping. I think this trend is true no matter where you are or what level you play at.

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People have been making this claim for years, it is simply not true. The games are as good as they have ever been.

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5) There is no 2+2er out there who has 900K in bankroll & 24 tables 30/60 and beats it for 9BB/100 hands.


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Agree but what's your point?

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Reading players is becoming more and more important and that is hard to do over the internet (yes I played B&M before I played on line).

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OK.

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The kind of attention needed to play on the required level cannot be successfully divided amoung four tables. You cannot play mechanically above the very lowest levels and expect to win very much.

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Well, it depends on what you call the lowest levels. Certainly 1/2 can be multitabled mechanically. Perhaps you misunderstand the object of multitabling. There is no doubt that yourBB/100 will decrease as you add tables but your BB/hr can still increase.

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3) Most long term players will tell you that you are likely to go broke at some point in the future no matter how good you think you are.

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Well, I don't know who you talked to but this is simply not true. Good players will maintain a sufficient bankroll and never go broke.

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I am trying to balance the effort I have to put forward with the potential reward, only, I don't know what that reward may be as those who have been there or are there right now don't want to say or are too embarrassed to say...The decision boils down to going back down in level to where I know I can make money, becoming a ten game rock or a 6 max specialist, switching to NL where I can make bets which give punishing odds to incorrect draws, becoming a MTT or SNG specialist


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Well, there is plenty of money to be made at limit ring games (either full or shorthanded) but of course you would need to play at a 5/10 or higher.

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