At 3:09:55 this morning I was completed my 100,000th hand...for the record, I folded it. So what's been happening over the last 1/10 of a million hands?
- I am down $49.70 in raw earnings against the rake.
- Including rakeback I am up $118.87
- Worst hand up to that point was 4444...rainbow
- Was dealt quad 4s, 8s, 9s, Qs, and As each once. Won the AAAA hand by raising the BB out of his blind from the SB. Netting even overall with quad hole cards.
- Had 17 straight flushes including two royals, won all of them. Flopped five of them thanks to good pre-flop hand selection. Got paid in full on four of them but had to get there after the money got in on one of them.
- Made quads 91 times and won 90 of them
- Spent a shade under 357 hours on the felt over the previous 70 days and change for an average of a bit over 5 hours/day according to HEM's session calculations which will always be high.
- If it weren't for the $572.63 of rake paid during that period the bankroll would be at $522.93 which means I'm paying about $1.46 each hour to play online compared to the approximately $.33/hour that I'm making.
- For those interested in the poker geek numbers, VPIP is 17.7%, PFR is 5.5%, 3bet is 3%, Agg is 4.15, WTSD is 29.6%, W$SD is 50.8%. I think I have enough data for these averages to be relevant so maybe I'll do more research now on what these numbers should be. I'm pretty darn sure that they are far from optimal.
I'm of course happy that I'm up overall. Disappointed that I need rakeback to be above even though particularly since I was above water for a significant portion of the duration up to this point. Feel that I'm a much better Omaha player than I used to be which comes with the territory of playing so many hands. Next steps for Omaha will be to keep tuning my game to make sure that I put in the procedures to ensure I'm playing sharp and also to delve into finding out what I need to do to take my game up to the next level by reading up more on strategy and hitting the poker forums. Thanks to all those who have been following along. Much, much, more to come.
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Some observations if you wish to take your game to the next level in my opinion:
ReplyDeleteI am not familiar with all of the poker stats but it appears that you are nittier than I. On full tilt this will make less of a difference as no one will have good note on you. At higher stakes your play will be more predictable.
It does not appear that you check raise often enough. At the higher stakes almost everyone bets their draws so if I have top set on a draw heavy board I am generally check raising. Not sure if the same phenomenon happens on microstakes.
I have no idea how many button steals you do but I probably play 40-50 percent of my button hands when folded to me. If you miss the flop villains miss too and a cbet will often take it down.
I vary my bet sizes more than you. There are plenty of good players that bet only pot and an occasional half pot so this is more of an observation.
For example, if I bet pot pre and get two callers and the flop is 336 rainbow, I am generally cbetting here always sometimes as little as 1/3 of the pot. People will generally fold without a 3 as they will put you on an overpair and their draw heavy starting hand is worthless.
Nice start though as you are in the cake challenge lead.
I have been trying to incorporate more check raising from EP but so far I have had mixed results with me giving a free card happening more often than me catching someone with their hand in the cookie jar.
ReplyDeleteNice, Cowboy! And, thanks for clarifying that your 4444 was a rainbow. I was wondering.
ReplyDeleteEnjoying the blog. Keep it going.
An extra $5 from me if you can get to 200k hands by 3/31.
Makes sense, at the higher stakes there are more cookie jar people than passive players so your style may work best. Just hit 2 straight flushes in about 6 hands. Weird.
ReplyDeleteCongrats! LOVE the blog, and am playing more and more O8 when it is available on Cake. Which means I’m usually only playing one or two tables, but it allows me to play while doing other things, and has proven profitable to date. Someday I'll start blogging about it again.
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