Hand Example

[Wrathchilde]

[antneye]

[low dough]

[Wrathchilde]

I'm not giving up yet! I'm a scrapper. I've already ordered the recommended book and will devour it when it arrives. When I get some time in the evening (something is always pulling me one way or another) I want to start running some very structured sessions, maybe an hour at a time, and then analyze and post some data from them. Maybe if I give up women and a social life I can do that! Right now I'm reading some pre-flop and post-flop strategy from pokerlistings.com. It's a little heavy for me at this point but I'm taking it slow. So should I not expect to make a profit, even at low stakes, until 10k hands or more??

[Pok 7's]

Not saying you will or won't make a profit after "x" amount of hands...just saying that poker is a long term game. Some people play a few thousand hands and do extememely well by playing horrible...others do terrible playing great. In the short term there is a lot of luck, both good and bad than can happen.

When it comes to analyzing your play (i.e. your PT stats) 10K hands usually serves as a starting place...and even then it's really not that accurate of a measure when it comes to dollars and cents.

[Wrathchilde]

[low dough]

It is very hard to fold aces, but when you're 3-bet again on the turn after the board pairs, I think that is a sign your (now) 2 pair is already beat.
I do not blame you for calling this down after that though, sometimes you just have to see what they called your raise with.

[Wrathchilde]

[Marm]

Don't play the numbers. Play the cards. You could have jsut been on a bad run.

[Wrathchilde]

There is one number I'd like to understand more, and that is the Big Bet. What does the information for that number mean? Here is what mine currently says:

Win Rate Per 100 Hands: ($0.08)
Big Bets Won Per 100 Hands: (2.00)

[antneye]

[Pok 7's]

[Wrathchilde]

[Marm]

[antneye]