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Charlie44:
--- Quote from: TheSnapper on September 02, 2013, 12:27:09 PM ---
I"m not sure why you have broken your target up into showdown/non showdown AKA Blue line / red line.
Winning players with positive red lines are rare.
BB/100
> +7 = crushing
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Many thanks for you comments. They have been very thought provoking and have convinced me at least for now to remove the target of non showdown winnings. Winning players with positive lines are rare is certainly an interesting fact. However I still think that the continuous downward trend of my non showdown winnings is an indication of certain areas of my game which need improving if I am to be very effective at this level and higher.
I"ve been trying to think outside the box on this issue as I try and do. Consider if you had perfect information. i.e you had knew exactly your opponents cards, you may take the following strategy :
When you are ahead betting the maximum you believe you opponent would call. When you are behind only call your opponent bets if you had the odds to call. If your opponents always called your bets then clearly you would be making a good overall profit but you would be making a big non showdown loss.
You could almost certainly improve your non showdown and overall profit by betting or raising enough to make your opponent fold when he has a poor or marginal hand albeit better then you.
The point I am making is that whilst as you rightly said there is nothing to worry about with a non showdown loss there is always room to improving your game and if you are making a big loss on non showdown hands maybe that"s where the main room for improvement is.
By the way my +8 BB/100 may be a bit ambitious then !! I"d rather be aiming high though !
Thanks again.
s4ooter:
I dont think its too bad....i used to play 4 x NL5/NL10 Zoom tables (6max) and over 30k hands had a win rate of 11bb/100 hands (~$250)
You"ll get there, just make sure you review, review, review and take advantage of your HUD etc.
Lower stakes, be aggressive. :)
Charlie44:
--- Quote from: s4ooter on September 02, 2013, 19:40:04 PM ---
I dont think its too bad....i used to play 4 x NL5/NL10 Zoom tables (6max) and over 30k hands had a win rate of 11bb/100 hands (~$250)
You"ll get there, just make sure you review, review, review and take advantage of your HUD etc.
Lower stakes, be aggressive. :)
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Thanks for the advice - REVIEW, USE YOUR HUD, and BE AGRESSIVE - I think I need to need to have that as my motto.
Having an amazing session today so far 858 hands played $39.65 up including 15$ up on non showdown hands. Apprecaite I should not be results orientated and will be reviewing tomorrow how badly I played some hands. Just had a satisfying hand - raised to 3BB co with 77, looked like a reg with 50 bbs on button 3 bet to 9bbs. Looked like he was taking advantage of pos so I just shoved and he folded like a baby - felt good !!.
Charlie44:
Promise I wont report every day but very pleased with the days results.
1098 hands played on 10cents zoom.
$39.58 profit including $15 non showdown.
Yesssss!
Hands played slightly down on target because I took a break to watch the first episode of the new series of Doc Martin. I"m not normally into sitcoms but the wife and I really enjoy this. She"s pleased ( I think) because at least she"ll see me for 1 hour in the evenings every week !!
duke3016:
Post as often as you desire ;D
Don"t pretend to understand all the figures 8) but it does interest me and a lot of people on here, keep it up...
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