Long time no blogging. But I think I have very good excuses for not spending much time in front of the PC. It's summer, and rather be out in the sun having playing golf or having a cold beer on my girlfriends terrace! So what about poker? When I started this 100.000 hands project I was hoping to finish it before the end of June. But a couple of family things and a 3 weeks heat way made me decide to take a few weeks brake from poker. The first of June I started a training program with my coach and have been working mostly on plugging pre-flop leaks and slowly widen my hand range. It has worked out pretty well but there are still a bunch of leaks to plug. So what have I improved so far? I play more hands and play them more aggressively. The first 10K hands I was playing I played a 12/8/1,70 game with and + 5,1bb/100. The last 10K hands I’ve played a 15/11/2,5 game with +11bb/100. Is a wider hand range and a more aggressive play the only reason I have more than doubled my win rate? I don’t think so, but it has absolutely improved my win rate! What else has improved during these 50K hands?
- Folding a marginal hand.
- Inducing bluffs.
- Floating aggressive players who C-bet almost 100%.
- Increasing the River betting frequency.
- My feel for the game
Today it rains and I’m back at the tables and played for a couple of hours and made almost 3 buy-ins and according to the weather forecast there will be a lot of poker this week. My bank roll needs a rain dancer! Results after 49,400 hands
Winnings: $792
Win rate: +6,41bb/100
Bonus: $280
Bank Roll $1,572 ($500) The Graph after 50K hands
