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What's Your Edge

verneer's Poker Blog

December 28, 2008

So yesterday I had a nice 5 BI winning day. I decided to walk away and call it a successful day. Then I started reading some blog on CR and watching some of the hands that people posted and decided that poker is too profitable of a game to just sit out. I'll just open up a table or two ...

And thus I get drawn back in after I've already called it quits for the day. And I quickly drop close to two buy-ins. Why did I even sit back at the tables? There was really no reason for it. I end up at two 6-max tables playing with a REALLY aggressive player HU who then sits out after a third person sits in. I ask if he wants to play at the HU tables and since he's up about a buy-in on me he agrees.

We fire up two HU tables and after I take a little over three buy-ins from him he just types "lucky donkey" and leaves me. He cold-called a 4-bet OOP with T8s a few hands before this happened. It's funny how everyone is Phil Ivey when they play 100NL and below.

So ... I end up quitting having won about 6 BI's on the day, but why did I even sit back down?

Also, I was looking at my 100NL stats for this month:

Yeah ... the HU and 6-max are fairly small sample sizes, but just from the feel of it I think I have the biggest edge in short handed games. It also helps that I have been playing at most 10 tables whereas I ended up playing 18-24 when I played Full Ring.

I think in 2009 I will play a mixture of 6-max, FR, and HU. It's just silly grinding for bonuses which are a small fraction on the hourly rate that I'm sacrificing by playing too many tables at stakes where my edge isn't optimized.

Also, here is the # 1 secret to winning at poker: Bum hunt. Look at all the big winners. It's what they do. For example, since I've been grinding 100NL on Stars, I've been following the big winners:

http://www.pokertableratings.com/topwinners.php?si...
I won't got into a lot that I see them doing, but watch what both Rennwurm and jrockhaf do - what tables they sit on and what tables they stay on. Oh yeah ... they do their best at bum hunting :)

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Dec 28, 08 21:04:44

Thanks!

Thanks for the advice not sure if you saw before you logged off. I appreciate it. GL!

alpallstar20

Dec 28, 08 21:07:29

i couldn't agree with you more. i believe the difference between the top winners and the marginal to break even players are things like table selection and emotional control.

there is so much more to making money in poker than actually playing poker. this has become more evident to me the higher stakes i play where it becomes more difficult to make money, but once you figure it out i think the results will definitely be worth it.

tilllttt