Quote Originally Posted by TheBowlBoy
Looks pretty good. I think you might be calling 3bets too often but it could be that 2NL has deeper stacks and a lot of 3bets do tend to be min 3bets, so I dunno maybe you have implied odds a lot of the time.
I think this is the case. I often don't give enough credit to players when they 3bet me so I end up stacking off with QQ or similar. Quite often even very bad players end up having AA and KK and dominating me. Or I end up having a coinflip against AK. Also lot of 3bets do end up being very small or minimal. It's probably increases the percentage a bit.

I'm trying to get into a midset of giving credit to the players, and instead of seeing potential profit, I should see what I can lose. If I lose money I can't use it to make more money in a more profitable opportunity. If I keep it I can. I'm trying to remind myself of that.

Quote Originally Posted by TheBowlBoy
If you want to make more money than a kid that flips burgers, you're either going to need to play more tables, or play a higher limit. I think $12/$15 per hour 12tabling 25NL is doable but I don't think you're good enough for that yet. Please don't take offence to that, but if you were you'd probably be crushing the decue a lot harder than you currently are.

I think that 24 tabling 10NL could sustain a $10+ hourly rate minimal playing the same game as you are now.

If you plan on doing this a lot definitely look into getting tableninja is you play on stars or poker shortcuts for full tilt, they'll really help save on the miss clicks, let you devote more time to thinking rather than mouse movement, it just make things easier on you in an ergonomic respect.
Why would I take offence? I am well aware of how bad I am. That's why I am here with this mindset of asking for advice instead of assuming I'm a great poker player.

Thanks for Tableninja, I'll check it out.

Quote Originally Posted by TheBowlBoy
You should also consider just flipping burgers instead and grinding for extra money on the side. The effects of running bad or hitting a downswing can be really devastating when you're counting on a paycheque in the near future. And its not like you'll be in a position to cash out part of your roll and drop down in limits because you can't go down much further.
I am flipping burgers (well not literally but doing a minimum wage job) already, for 5 hours a day roughly. I am open to working something full time but economy is in the hole. I've always liked poker and this is more incentive to become better .

Quote Originally Posted by oskar
You can play a lot more hands from the btn and co.

Filter for utg, utg+1 and hands worse than 77+, AQo+, AJs+, KQs - and re-evaluate those.
You can prolly play a 10% range profitably from UTG at 2nl, but if you can then you can play a lot more hands in position.

Take a standard hand where you raise preflop and get one or two callers - any hh will do, but change your position to the btn... and then try to plan out the hand in terms of how to extract the most value. And then put yourself in first position on the flop and try again. It should become apparent why one is much more favorable.
I've filtered for those hands and I've found 1866 total hands (including ones I fold) that fit the criteria. Of those 1866 I am in profit by 0.65$. It doesn't seem like that big of a leak. Most of the hands I played from UTG/UTG+1 that are weaker than ones you outlined are pocket pairs and AJo/ATs.

VPIP of 5% for those hands.

I am trying to improve my position use. I am at 17k hands now and ATS is 17%. So I am doing it much more (first 10k hands were 12-13 and in next 7k I moved up 4-5%).