6 max Goodness (Forum Challenge)

[Talking Poker]

Meanwhile, I was up a good $2-300, and finished down $130ish in my session all of 10 minutes after my peak. Easy come, easy go, I guess.

BadBlood's swing is a pretty nice one. 55 BBs in a little over 100 hands. That's solid, bro...

I'm still well into the red, with over 2k hands played now.

[PShabi]

Heading off to the company picnic, just sat down for a little session. Only ended up getting in 20 minutes though. +$259 isn't bad. I'll take it.

Who's winning? :

(No matter what I do, my screenshots are almost always unreadable when I put them on the site directly.)

[MAYHEM45]

LMAO. I managed to climb my way back up wo only being down about 200 bucks last nite. 4000 hands to go.

[Talking Poker]

I just hit the halfway point, and after yet ANOTHER sick session (this one being primarily one bad beat after another - lots of 5 outers today), I am down nearly a grand again. Sheesh.

I will be very luck to get back to even over the next 2500 hands.

[PShabi]

I've been winning 350, losing 350, every other session all week. I've just got one more winning session than losing, leaving me in the 2+bb/100 range at around 2200 hands?

What you lookin' like JD?

[JDMcNugent7]

Only played 500 hands so far...

[PShabi]

LMFAO

[Talking Poker]

I don't know how I do it, but even after 3 days off, I'm having another record setting session here.

After 70 hands played, how does ONE hand won sound? My "Win% if Flop Seen" is 7%. Yes, 7%.

Rock on.

[PShabi]

I've got less than 500 hands to go.

Played 1k today, and these were my sick ass swings:

-450 to start, got it up to -150, back to -350, sitting at +250 now.

Sick, sick swings.

[Talking Poker]

Damn.... guess it's time for me to end my hiatus.

[PShabi]

Done.

I like my chances.

[Talking Poker]

I'm at 3k hands and -$1200. I like your chances too.

Still hoping to end up in the green.

[PShabi]

I played the best poker of my life during that 5k stretch. I think the contest helped me regain (or maybe gain for the first time) some focus. If PokerBoy has it in him to beat me, then, well, he's "PokerBoy." I'll be happy with what I put up though.

I'm not telling my exact total yet through 5k, but over 5300 hands, my winrate is 3.5bb/100. The last 300 hands were nice though.

[Talking Poker]

Well, even if you were only 2 BB/100 for the first 5k hands, that's $1000. There's pretty much no way in hell I can top that, so props to you.

[Talking Poker]

I decided to play some BBJ 6 max at Party tonight.

What a horrible, horrible, horrible idea that was. You see, when I look around the table and the lowest VPIP I see is 44% - yes, 44% - I know I am in trouble.

I keep thinking this sick streak I am on will stop one of these days, but it doesn't. It just gets worse and worse and worse.

Less than 1200 hands to go until I can be done with this ridiculous experiment.

I really have no idea how I killed this game so easily and for so long.

[Robbr25]

Is your strategy failing you?
Are you sticking to a strict pattern?
Are you using the same pattern in all types of games? (including HU + MTT?)
I have been on a roll a lot recently and I have to give you partial credit from watching the way you play.

[Talking Poker]

Thanks, I think.....

I'm playing like I always play (and no, of course I don't play NL MTTs or HU the same way I play 6 max limit - I can't believe you even asked that question!).

I've tilted off some money, I'm sure, but I honestly think 90% of my recent losses are do to (abnormal?) variance. The cards are being cruel. The idiots are hitting their draws and I'm missing all of mine. I'm also getting a higher than expected amount of second best hands (set over set type stuff, even), and that sort of thing.

It's hard to say though... I would think 5000 hands would be enough for it to somewhat even out, but it certainly hasn't. When I look at some of my Poker Tracker stats though, I can't help but laugh. For example:

In terms of $ per hand, my best hand is QTo. AA is NINTH on the list, far behind the likes of A7s, KQs, etc. Uh huh. KK is even farther down than THAT!

My worst hand is 88, which has cost me $229 so far.

I've been dealt 67o 51 times. 94o, Q7o and Q5o 45+ each. AKs and AQs, you ask? 9 times each. AJs - EIGHT times. Hell, I've had Aces 15 times! I've had AKo 30 times, for comparison sake, and have won a whopping $2.50 per hand with it. Ooooooooooooooooooooooh.

[Robbr25]

I figured you mix it up depending on which type of game.
Are you mostly playin limit these days?
or mixing in NL?
I have had bad runs with limit, maybe not quite as bad as yours,
but 0-100 hands or so is pretty bad.
I have moved from tight to loose to semi-tight, just
to break out of it.
Most of the time I can get it to work.
I have even tried to modify my games by playing freerolls.
even some stuff like the following, which I think was posted here has one me a bunch of hands:
Bets weak on a draw, strong on a made hand.
Bets the same on the flop and turn when drawing*** caught many doing this
Bets 1/2 the pot when CBing and more when he hits** hit and miss
Bets quickly after the cards come on a bluff and slower when strong.** hard to tell online.

[Talking Poker]

Yeah... none of that really applies to 6 max limit.

And we're not talking 100 hands - were talking 3800 hands.

[Robbr25]

Yeah that is pretty bad.
Discouraging isn't it.
Playing live Today,
hopefully 40-50 people.
$40 buy in

[PShabi]

100 hands of losing is "pretty bad?" Well, I lost $450 last night over 600 hands. And that doesn't even have me worried. 10k hands is nothing. 100 hands is a drop in the ocean.

And the rest of the shit you posted makes no sense.

[Boobie Lover]

I think you can take someone's advice for a grain of salt when they mention playing in freerolls in an attempt to improve their game.

[Tony Cheval]

I'm getting one thing out of where this thread has gone...

Robber needs Haiku lessons.

[PShabi]

Never got around to posting my final results.

[JDMcNugent7]

VN Shab. I respect ur game - i dn how u and TP play Limit full time - drives me f'n crazy. I could potentially come very close to ur #'s, but I highly doubt it after my recent very poor run.
I'll get around to completing this soon tho.