This is the start of a journey to the 5/10 games online with my next stop at the 2/4 games. I'm going to partner from this point on with an ex-teammate (blackjack) who has become an excellent live player. (Las Vegas) He's put in 1000's of hours at the 1/2 tables holding steady at 5PTBBs per hour. He's also played a lot of 2/5 and 5/10 live with success.

One comment before I post my results, never tilt and always play with either a rake back or bonus. In my case without going through all of my hands, the tilt cost me at least 0.5PTBBs/100. The results here were for PS because they gave me a bonus. I cleared it at the 3400 hand level. At the .50/1.00 level the rake was around 3PTBBs/100 and I got back 1PTBB/100 in bonus pay. I separate this from my actual poker win but for risk purposes, I'll use both poker win and bonus pay.

Good Luck GeoC !

Dont forget to post some hands !!!!

My partner decided to stay with full tables so I decided to stay at .50/1.00 until I feel good about my game. I had a horrible run that put me down almost $300 but climbed back to my current level. Also I earned a bomb icon. (See graph)
A couple of questions for short stackers.
What tables do you search out in terms of Players/flop%?
I've been using PokerStove to give me ev numbers when I'm the button against the blinds. This helps me decide if I'm going to raise them or not. I also take into consideration their stats. Do any of you have a hand range to raise against a tight player, loose player when I'm on the button?

For Cooper: I estimate your 30K of play hands losing 1.8K was about a 1 in 6 event. This assumes your ev is 2ptbbs/100 and your sd is 45ptbbs/100.

A couple of questions for short stackers.
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What tables do you search out in terms of Players/flop%?
I don't table select at all - if I did I would be interested in high average pot as that tends to mean players who raise more loosely.

I've been using PokerStove to give me ev numbers when I'm the button against the blinds. This helps me decide if I'm going to raise them or not. I also take into consideration their stats. Do any of you have a hand range to raise against a tight player, loose player when I'm on the button?
If you mean push all in over a raise then I go on either PFR (downgraded a little for EP raisers) or blind steal % (if they are first in from CO/OTB or SB). As a rule a tight raiser 5-10% or re-raiser is getting a lot of credit from me and I may even fold AK/ TT to them (although if I am deep enough with position I am more likely to just call and evaluate flop).

Anyone with % over 10% cards like AK,AA-TT are auto-shoves.
vs a standard CR type raiser (15-20%) the borderline for shoves is more around the AJs/88 area.
For over 20% raisers then you can think about shoving over with A9s, 66 etc - what matters when you stove is is also their folding range. Against players who fold more you can tend to afford to shove slightly worse hands.

If you mean when do I raise OTB with a limper ahead - the answer is maybe 2/3 of the hands I choose to play. If the blinds are passive enough to be fairly likely to get in 4 way then I might limp an SC or something, but if I think a limper is likely to have a marginal hand I will often raise it up to 2.5-3BB in LP. The reason I don't raise more is that when you are 20BB stacked and have position you are throwing away positional advantage the more you raise - if you have monsters like AA KK QQ in position this doesn't matter as much as the hands are so strong and you don't really mind having to make a pot-committing CB on the flop, but otherwise a smaller raise is best.

Ex: As always you're most informative. Thank you for the info. I'm posting my final numbers for this current go-around on FT. Cleared two bonuses of $125 and made $112 along the way. Now off to Cake.