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dranger7070
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03-08-2009, 04:48 PM
Post subject: The most +EV thing I've done lately.
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Oct 2008
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In my op a couple weeks back I decided that I wouldn't check my BR for an entire week. I had just moved up to 5nl and was getting into the habit of checking my BR and graph/stats every 5 seconds to "see how I was doing."
So for an entire week I didn't check anything. I would just fire up tables, play until I felt like it, and closed the Stars window. At the end of the week I was up a whopping $1.40 lol, but thats beside the point.
I just wanted to see if not checking would effect my game in any noticeable way, and now that its been a little bit since I did that I can honestly say that it has. I rarely check my BR during a session, usually just save it for the very end, if then. It really allows you to focus on the game, and made me care less about the money in play, and worry more about +EV decisions at the table.
I suggest to any of you new guys that are always opening that cashier window to give it a shot. It may not make a huge impact on your game, but it might help you make better decisions, which is always a good thing.
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I agree, and you'll know when you're playing like shit anyway without having to see your graph decrease :O
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Sir Pawnalot
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Full House
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norway
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Great to see your focus has changed to your decisions.
Downside with looking too much at stats is that it reduces the focus on the very next decision.
The most important decision is always the next one- because thats the one you can do perfect.
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A foolish man learns nothing from his mistakes.
A smart man learns only from his own mistakes.
A wise man learns from his own mistakes, and those of the smart man and the fool.
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loonychune
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Straight
Join Date: Jan 2009
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I definitely had this problem. Now it's like, I don't want to look at my stats when i'm losing and get pissed off but don't mind when i'm winning.
I'm starting to think more that my BR isn't important. It's the sessions tab and hands played during that session that I want to be looking at. I probably won't even bother to update my operation graphic until after every 3 sessions or so, unless I start the operation blog I keep meaning to do.
EDIT: Or if I lose a tonne and have to move back down, but hopefully I am in a position to loiter at 25nl for a while without having to pay too much attention to overall $ won / lost.
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kleitches
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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Yeah, this is obviously extremely helpful, if you have the will power to do it  . The only exception would probably be if you were taking shots at a new level and lose a few buy-ins. Checking your bankroll to see if you're still within your safe zone is acceptable, so that you don't lose more than you were comfortable with losing.
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dranger7070
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4-of-a-Kind
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Kevin!!! Its about time you made a damn post on FTR lol. Well, when I did it, I was in the middle of switching to 5nl, but you make a valid point. If I had felt I was losing enough to concern me, then I would have just dropped down to 2nl again. I got kinda lucky though and won a 300bb pot to kick it off, so I wasn't too concerned lol.
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xpaand
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Flush
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 289
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Wow I do this ALL the time. I try to not do it as much anymore, but before I'd have the cashier window just open the whole time LOL. Bad habit imo.
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OP: Beginner to Master
If I bet as a bluff, I should be thinking "am I getting better hands to fold? Is it likely that he will fold x% of the time to a y sized bet to make it +EV?". If I bet for value, I should be thinking "am I getting worst hands to call? Am I ahead of enough of his range that this is a good value bet?".
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fabin
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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I also had a problem like this.
After every S'n'G I played, I checked my cashier and saw it decreasing.
So I was becaming more and more angry, and lost everything trying to get it back.
Maybe not looking at it sounds a really good idea.
Thanks for the tip
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Keith
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Full House
Join Date: Nov 2008
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surely you know that you lost the SNG and that therefore your bankroll is decreasing. So why the POOP do you need to check the cashier.
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Gshark
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3-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 65
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I like to check on my BR after every session, which pumps me up because I've been up lately, but I can see how this could be detrimental to my game if I was losing money. Put me on tilt. Good advice on not to check so often whether you're up or down.
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Keith
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Full House
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running out of something original to say now vaalPOOP?
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dranger7070
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Oct 2008
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rofl I <3 when we're about to have a freeroll and all the freetrollers come rolling in
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whooper1970
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you sure will know,when your br reaches $1.00 lmfao !!
gl tho
wh
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TAGurit
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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i guess thats one way to get youre post counts up.
wtf?
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