Sunday, December 9, 2007

Starting to understand NL

I haven't played too much today, as I've been feeling tired and have had much of my time devoted to other things lately. I needed to play a bit though, so I got on for just under an hour, 55 minutes to be exact. I feel that I've really begun to refine my new style, and the results are beyond anything I hoped for. I'm cutting loose from most of my marginal hands, top pair decent kicker, etc, and minimizing losses, probably giving up multiple pots that I'm ahead in. But in the process, I'm cleaning people out when I have a strong hand. It seems counterintuitive, however I don't believe many at these levels are paying much attention, if any at all to opponnents.

I ended up making 181.40 big bets in 55 minutes, which averages to $19.79 an hour, and it wasn't like I never lost. I layed down several hands that I'd invested over $1 in, and lost a few pots at showdown, although my overall win % at showdown is far greater than it formerly was. I didn't take note of many hands throughout the session because I'm at 8 tables for most of it, and when a game is bad I'm focusing on closing that one and looking for the next.

I do know that I won 2 large pots quickly on with sets, one with JJ as an overpair versus a flush draw, and another with T6 in the big blind. Flop came 779 Turn [K] River [8] and my opponent had A7. Big ones I lost I don't know, because I really won almost all of them, lol. Let's take a look at the numbers and I'll see if anything comes to mind.

Dealt 430 hands and saw flop:
-43 of 81 times in big blind (53%)
-7 of 83 times in small blind(8%)
-14 of 266 in others (5%)

Total of 64 out of 430 (14%)

Pots won at showdown: 9 of 12 (75%)
Pots won without showdown: 32

BB/100: 42.19
BB/hour: 197.9

Yeah, I don't remember the ones I lost at all, which is fine with me. I didn't have any set versus set or anything like that, so nothing too memorable. Very happy with this session, and hopefully when I get back on a little later, I'll reproduce these type of results.

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