6 max Goodness (Forum Challenge)

[Talking Poker]

Congrats. This will be a clear winner, I supsect.

*sigh* I remember when my numbers used to look like those.

[MAYHEM45]

Heres my final results. I got absolutely destroyed. Definitely gonna run with my tail between my legs back to the SNGs.

[JDMcNugent7]

I've done 3.5k hands and am at +700.
I'm 4 tabling to get these last 1.5k in - we'll see how that goes.

[Talking Poker]

I still have 750ish hands left to play. I'll try to get them in later today, since I won't be able to play most of tomorrow. IF not, I'll finish on Wednesday.

I just transferred Mayhem his $50 back.

[PShabi]

Hope you win $600!

[JDMcNugent7]

crap i forgot all about this again.
i have till the end of tomorrow right ?

[Talking Poker]

Yeah, but take your time. The February thing was just a guideline to give us a target to shoot for. Get it done by the end of the week and it's all good.

[JDMcNugent7]

thx but ill just 4 table it all tomorrow and get it over with - shabi has it in the bag unless i get insanely lucky anyway.

[MAYHEM45]

Thank you. Sorry I couldnt step it up at the end and get my 50 into play.

[Talking Poker]

No worries... doesn't look like my 50 is gonna be in play either. It would be a longshot.

[Talking Poker]

Well, I'm hanging my head in shame here.

It's funny... I was WAY down, and then started making a pretty nice comeback (still negative, but less than $1k). Well, after dropping $1100 in my last 500 hands, I'm actually down over 2 grand through 4800 hands. $2176.71 through 4811 to be exact.

I'm all but busted out of Party, and honestly, with the cards laughing in my face for 4811 hands now, I don't even feel like playing the remaining 189. F Party. F the idiots. And F $5/$10 6 max. How in the world I used to average nearly 3 BB/100 (over like 50k hands), I will never know. Cause for this 5k, I was down 4.5/100. That is just SICK.

[PShabi]

Meanwhile, the guy who struggled (like Miss Piggy: Who Moi?) for 50k hands 4 months ago is 3-tabling blindfolded now. Variance.

[Talking Poker]

I know it's variance (Well, 90% variance and 10% me being a tilting donkey)... but it's still annoying as shit.

[PShabi]

I hear ya man.

It's hard not to tilt in this game.

[Talking Poker]

Funny story.... so, I had like 40som dollars left. Decided to play NL until I got it over $50 (took like 5 minutes), and then commit the mortal sin of sitting at a 5/10 6 max game with 5, yes 5, BBs.

Worked it up to $166. And then the following three hands happened consecutively:

Hand #1:
5/10 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Feb 28 22:54:12 EST 2006
Table Post Oak (Real Money) -- Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: lHeartBoobs ( $250)
Seat 2: ChipKaiser ( $262)
Seat 3: bill78rule ( $133.50)
Seat 4: ih822yrolds ( $296.58)
Seat 5: Rogue623 ( $166)
Seat 6: FARISSIER ( $19.84)
bill78rule posts small blind (2)
ih822yrolds posts big blind (5)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Rogue623 [ Kc, Qc ]
Rogue623 raises (10) to 10
FARISSIER raises (15) to 15
ChipKaiser folds.
bill78rule folds.
ih822yrolds raises (15) to 20
Rogue623 calls (10)
FARISSIER calls (4.84)
FARISSIER is all-In.
Creating Main Pot with $59.52 with FARISSIER
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 6c, 8h, Ts ]
ih822yrolds bets (5)
Rogue623 calls (5) <--I almost raised here. I should have.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 8c ]
ih822yrolds bets (10)
Rogue623 calls (10)
** Dealing River ** : [ 5s ]
ih822yrolds bets (10)
Rogue623 folds.
** Summary **
Main Pot: $59.52 | Side Pot 1: $40.32 | Rake: $2
Board: [ 6c 8h Ts 8c 5s ]

lHeartBoobs balance $250, sits out
ChipKaiser balance $262, didn't bet (folded)
bill78rule balance $131.50, lost $2 (folded)
ih822yrolds balance $291.90, bet $45, collected $40.32, lost -$4.68 [ Kh Qs ] [ a pair of eights -- Kh,Qs,Ts,8h,8c ]
Rogue623 balance $131, lost $35 (folded)
FARISSIER balance $59.52, bet $19.84, collected $59.52, net +$39.68 [ 8d 5d ] [ a full house, Eights full of fives -- 8d,8h,8c,5d,5s ]

nh moron.

Hand #2:
***** Hand History for Game 3643622722 *****
5/10 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Feb 28 22:54:50 EST 2006
Table Post Oak (Real Money) -- Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: lHeartBoobs ( $250)
Seat 2: ChipKaiser ( $262)
Seat 3: bill78rule ( $131.50)
Seat 4: ih822yrolds ( $291.90)
Seat 5: Rogue623 ( $131)
Seat 6: FARISSIER ( $59.52)
ih822yrolds posts small blind (2)
Rogue623 posts big blind (5)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Rogue623 [ Kh, As ]
Rogue623: lol
Rogue623: idiot <--- Usually I'm nice. Not so much tonight.
FARISSIER folds.
ChipKaiser folds.
bill78rule folds.
ih822yrolds raises (8) to 10
Rogue623 raises (10) to 15
ih822yrolds raises (10) to 20
Rogue623 calls (5)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Ah, Th, 6h ]
ih822yrolds bets (5)
Rogue623 raises (10) to 10
ih822yrolds calls (5)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Jd ]
ih822yrolds checks.
Rogue623 bets (10)
ih822yrolds calls (10)
** Dealing River ** : [ 9s ]
ih822yrolds checks.
Rogue623 checks.
** Summary **
Main Pot: $78 | Rake: $2
Board: [ Ah Th 6h Jd 9s ]

lHeartBoobs balance $250, sits out
ChipKaiser balance $262, didn't bet (folded)
bill78rule balance $131.50, didn't bet (folded)
ih822yrolds balance $329.90, bet $40, collected $78, net +$38 [ 9c Ad ] [ two pairs, aces and nines -- Ad,Ah,Jd,9c,9s ]
Rogue623 balance $91, lost $40 [ Kh As ] [ a pair of aces -- As,Ah,Kh,Jd,Th ]
FARISSIER balance $59.52, didn't bet (folded)

That's right. He hit his 2 outer on me.

Hand #3:
***** Hand History for Game 3643628825 *****
Rogue623: haaaaaahahaha
5/10 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Feb 28 22:55:38 EST 2006
Table Post Oak (Real Money) -- Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: lHeartBoobs ( $250)
Seat 2: ChipKaiser ( $262)
Seat 3: bill78rule ( $131.50)
Seat 4: ih822yrolds ( $329.90)
Seat 5: Rogue623 ( $91)
Seat 6: FARISSIER ( $59.52)
Rogue623 posts small blind (2)
Rogue623: you rule
FARISSIER posts big blind (5)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Rogue623 [ Qd, Ah ]
ChipKaiser folds.
bill78rule folds.
ih822yrolds raises (10) to 10
Rogue623 raises (13) to 15
FARISSIER calls (10)
ih822yrolds raises (10) to 20
Rogue623 calls (5)
FARISSIER calls (5)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Ad, 6d, 4s ]
Rogue623 bets (5)
FARISSIER calls (5)
ih822yrolds raises (10) to 10
Rogue623 raises (10) to 15
FARISSIER calls (10)
ih822yrolds calls (5)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 5c ]
Rogue623 bets (10)
FARISSIER calls (10)
ih822yrolds folds.
** Dealing River ** : [ 5s ]
Rogue623 bets (10)
FARISSIER bets (14.52)
FARISSIER is all-In.
Rogue623 calls (4.52)
Creating Main Pot with $152.04 with FARISSIER
** Summary **
Main Pot: $152.04 | | Rake: $2
Board: [ Ad 6d 4s 5c 5s ]

lHeartBoobs balance $250, sits out
ChipKaiser balance $262, didn't bet (folded)
bill78rule balance $131.50, didn't bet (folded)
ih822yrolds balance $294.90, lost $35 (folded)
Rogue623 balance $31.48, lost $59.52 [ Qd Ah ] [ two pairs, aces and fives -- Ah,Ad,Qd,5c,5s ]
FARISSIER balance $152.04, bet $59.52, collected $152.04, net +$92.52 [ 5h 7s ] [ three of a kind, fives -- Ad,7s,5h,5c,5s ]

I got all in a few hands later and am happy to report I have finally busted out of Party Poker.

That's enough bullshit for me, thanks. After nearly 5000 hands of this crap, I have come to the realization that:
1. Long term, this may be one of the most profitable games on the planet.
2. The card gods hate me and refuse to let me reach said long term.


Final stats below (split since the Party upgrade). And yes, I'm keeping my $50 entry fee.

[Robbr25]

TP what type of player did it rate you as for these 5k or so hands?
(with the default ratings?)
Followup, do you have non-default ratings defined ? What are they ?

[Talking Poker]

I've only messed with the Auto-Rate stuff a little bit, and not for a long time. Just looking at the numbers is usually good enough for me, so I haven't explored it more. I did set up custom rules for 6 max a long time ago though.

I'm pretty sure the rules I'm using are from this thread:


Let's see if I can make it update the ratings... Ok, the batch process is running now.

Damn, this thing is slooooooooooooooow. I wonder if it's doing ALL players for all limits. Hmmm...

Ok, that didn't work out too well. Turns out my imported rules are a bit screwed up. So I'm gonna try to redo this with the "default" rules, even though that won't make any sense, since this was all 6 max play.

Ok, finally done. Based on the default rules, I am "Semi-Loose-Aggressive/Aggressive" which in 6 max, is probably right about where I want to be.

[JDMcNugent7]

Finally finished - man Limit is Annoying! But all poker is annoying me lately the way im running...

Well i guess these are decent #'s considering its my first 5k hands of limit. - better than i expected i would do.

VN shab - u dominated.

[PShabi]

TY.

FWIW, you'd see your winrate improve here if you were stealing blinds a bit more. I'm pretty f'ing liberal with opening raises from the CO or Button. Stealing more would increase your VPIP, which is a bit low. It also puts you into more profitable situations postflop, and your skills are good there.

But very nice run, JD.

[Talking Poker]

Prize money has been transferred to pshabi. Nice work.

Now let us put this ridiculous experiement behind us forever.

[badblood44]

I feel like a winner by quitting after 1k hands at -$30.

For the few days I played 5/10 limit, I have to say for a while it was a nice change of pace. But it didn't take long to begin to feel like a grind and become less enjoyable for me.

How about a NL challenge???

[PShabi]

Sick thing is, I really, truly, enjoy the grind!

Don't know why. Guess I'm just sick.

[Talking Poker]

Tempting... but I don't know how many more of these public challenges my roll can take. The poker gods all too often use me for their amusement.

[JDMcNugent7]

Now that's a good idea.

Just set something up - ppl will join.

[Robbr25]

Figured you would be in that category.
From my stats at a lower limit(.50/$1) so far I am Loose-Aggressive / Passive, which is where I think I don't want to be, lol.
I also know that I have to raise more when in position to steal(try to) more.