Plan for Success (reach $3/$6 by May)

[bisonbison]

You're closer. PT tells me that I average 56/hr. Guess I've always just used the 50/hr. shorthand and not questioned it too much.

Pointless derail:

I wonder how much our own speed of play affects this rate. I think I probably make about 5% of the total betting decisions at a 10-handed table, and I'm guessing I make them slightly faster than average, despite 4-tabling.

Let's say your average hand involves 40 betting decisions (# pulled completely out of my ass), I'd be making 2 decisions per hand.

If the average decision takes 10 time units and I take 8 time units, then the average time without me in a hand = 400 time units. With me in the hand, the average = 396 time units.

In the time an average player at an average table plays 10,000, I would be playing 10,101. Those one hundred hands would be worth somewhere around 2BB. How much would I gain if I thought longer about every decision?

Isn't math fun?

[detruncate]

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Isn't math fun?

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Yes... and so are pointless derails. I studied philosphy in university, and have spent a fair amount of time writing fiction. Pointless derails have accounted for a signficant amount of my life. Don't have the math skills to translate it into BBs though.

[Zetack]

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The intention is to start in September with college.
At a—I think—conservative 1BB/hour that's 35 hours per week playing one table. 35 hours per week isn't too much



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You're going to college and going to play 35 hours a week?!? Good Lord man!!! what happened to drinking?

Geez, kids and their priorities these days...

--Zetack

[bisonbison]

You're going to college and going to play 35 hours a week?!? Good Lord man!!! what happened to drinking?

I know. I replied to some thread in the general forum. What's the point of college? You drink, you try to get laid, you wake up, you go to class. Rinse and repeat. Poker can fit in as a hobby, but, dear god people, you don't get those years back, ever.

If you're in college and you're playing more than an hour or two a day, you're going to want to confront your social anxiety sooner rather than later.

[MicroBob]

5 freaking hours a day.,....EVERY day. While you're in college????

If you take a couple days off a week then you're playing 7 hours a day.


Study for your classes for crying out loud.
And Surely there is some sexy co-ed that is worthy of some of that time.

[afk]

Your plan looks good, but jeez man. Focus some of that energy on school. I'm in school too and I can manage an hour a day comfortably, some can do more, some can do less. I think that what I do in college will be more fulfilling in the long run than poker ever has a chance to be. Basically - don't sacrifice your school for poker.