Rip my pt numbers apart (comments please)

[nutbag]

Yeah, I'm sure you could keep my rate or higher in a 1/2 while sleeping, but I was more thinking if a loose style is good for micro limits, so you can have more opportunites to take advantage of those mistakes.

[Talking Poker]

Sounds reasonable to me.

[MathBabe]

This is great stuff, Pshabi.

I've added my results in bold, and taken out some text. These results are for the 1,400 hands I've played at .10/.20 at PokerStars in the past 11 days. Not a good sample size, I realize, but I think there's some interesting stuff here already.

I'll post separately about starting hands from the blinds.

I think it's safe to say from this that I'm going to showdown too often, and not aggressive enough.

[Talking Poker]

MB:

You seem to be focusing on the SB number, but I think that is the least of the red flags I am saeeing. Looks to me like you are not nearly aggressive enough - both before and especially after the flop. Your showdown number is also pretty bad, possibly implying that you are calling down too often and not getting off your losing hands soon enough.

Basic advice: Call less; bet, raise and fold more.

One more thing to keep in mind: For the microlimits you are playing, the "guidelines" may change a bit. But I think it's still worth looking over your numbers once in a while to see if something really stands out - like your lack of aggression does here.

[MathBabe]

Yup. You'll see me trying to figure that out in the next few days of hand histories I post. And how to fit that together with the advice to "learn to check and call the river". :-)

Don't worry, I go away Friday morning until the 27th, so you guys will get a break for a bit!

By the way, don't worry that I'm focused too much on the SB... I'm going to tighten up there but that's easy. I'm trying to find hands in PokerTracker that I can use to figure out where I could be more aggressive, but unlike the SB there's no easy to way to find hands where I called.

[Talking Poker]

You know..... you might be a really good candidate to do that video thing that pshabi did last week. Record a 15-20 minute session of yourself (or much long if you edit it down), and let us watch it and comment on any glaring errors we see.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, start here:


Or better yet, here:

[Talking Poker]

BTW - Nice to see you back in the forum, MathBabe. You always post good questions than generate good discussion.

[MathBabe]

Thanks for both these posts...

I figure it only takes a minute to read a hand history, but thanks VERY much for the offer to spend 15 minutes watching a video! I'll play around with this when I get back from my folk's next week. I do know which thread you mean, and I've used video capture software before, so it should be no problem.

MathBabe

[Talking Poker]

Be sure to ask specific questions like pshabi did in his post.