Still playing $100 6 max NL and buying in for $50
Target reached
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Target reached
by excession » Mon May 01, 2006 4:48 pm
Tonight's 1 hr $58 + bonus session at B2B meant that I exceeded both $15,000 lifetime winnings and $10,000 in my bankroll for the fiirst time
Still playing $100 6 max NL and buying in for $50
Still playing $100 6 max NL and buying in for $50
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Re: Target reached
by shobute » Mon May 01, 2006 5:18 pm
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by GodlikeRoy » Mon May 01, 2006 5:52 pm
Congratulations
Poker is silly.
It is not enough to be good at chess, you must also play well.
Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.
It is not enough to be good at chess, you must also play well.
Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.
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by excession » Tue May 02, 2006 12:51 am
LOL I usually play $200 (and am dipping my toe in the $400 waters when I find a juicy table). It's just that the best tables to play at B2B last night were $100 and, as I always buy in 50% stacked, that meant $50 buy-in...
I don't think of myself as a $200 table player - I'm a $100-400 table player
I don't think of myself as a $200 table player - I'm a $100-400 table player
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by SideSwipe » Tue May 02, 2006 2:51 am
Excession,
Congrats on reaching your latest goal.
But could you briefly explain the plus points of your half buy-in strategy? I hear you mention it a lot, but I would love to know, in just a few bullet points, why it is so successful for you.
I tried it once or twice myself, but I only play at the $20NL level. So the thought of missing out on another $10 dollars when you try to stack the donks at the table is too tempting, and I always end up re-buying in full the full $20.
Cheers,
SS
Congrats on reaching your latest goal.
But could you briefly explain the plus points of your half buy-in strategy? I hear you mention it a lot, but I would love to know, in just a few bullet points, why it is so successful for you.
I tried it once or twice myself, but I only play at the $20NL level. So the thought of missing out on another $10 dollars when you try to stack the donks at the table is too tempting, and I always end up re-buying in full the full $20.
Cheers,
SS
"Every man is a but spark in the darkness"
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by kennyg » Tue May 02, 2006 5:14 am
congrulations! but really your true calling is narration 
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by excession » Tue May 02, 2006 1:35 pm
But could you briefly explain the plus points of your half buy-in strategy? I hear you mention it a lot, but I would love to know, in just a few bullet points, why it is so successful for you.
1. You can get all-in comfortably in 6 max with TPTK and come out +EV
2. More folks call your pushes (and I like to push with monsters on flush draw flops) - so you don't lose that much EV as against having a full stack as you get your big hands called more often.
3. It makes me hard to bluff off substantial pots (but donks don't notice my stack and still try the bluffs anywway).
4. I make a lot of marginal calls - this way when I get it badly wrong I only lose half a buy in.
But all the above is just self-justification really - the real reason is I switched to 50% buy-in when I got into 6 max whilst I found my feet and now it's just part of my comfort zone..
1. You can get all-in comfortably in 6 max with TPTK and come out +EV
2. More folks call your pushes (and I like to push with monsters on flush draw flops) - so you don't lose that much EV as against having a full stack as you get your big hands called more often.
3. It makes me hard to bluff off substantial pots (but donks don't notice my stack and still try the bluffs anywway).
4. I make a lot of marginal calls - this way when I get it badly wrong I only lose half a buy in.
But all the above is just self-justification really - the real reason is I switched to 50% buy-in when I got into 6 max whilst I found my feet and now it's just part of my comfort zone..
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