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Professional Poker Grad Student: Online chat
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Professional Poker Grad Student. Tuesday, October 05, 2004. When holding the nuts on the river - may you always be check-reraised multihanded. I had an incredible two days, made about $1200 in about 9 hours of play (including a $100 rebuy bonus). Also, it was a poor play of his to make a river bet (I probably won't fold a winner nor call with a loser), but I'll leave terrible river bets for a later day. Outs that aren't-I have to remind myself that I don't always have as many outs as it sometimes seems&#...
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Professional Poker Grad Student: PokerTracker
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Professional Poker Grad Student. Monday, October 11, 2004. I finally bought poker tracker. I imported all my hands since Sep 30th, over 7K of them. First things first, 7K hands is clearly not the long run, but interesting nonetheless. Won over $2K in 7300 hands. 742 BB / 100 hands. This seems reasonable, but I think I can improve this. 481 BB / table hour, true win rate of 18.14 BB / hour or $72 an hour. Not bad, certainly enough to live on. Over a third of my winnings. Wow. Turn - 2.9. River - 1.66.
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Professional Poker Grad Student: Building a Roll
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Professional Poker Grad Student. Friday, October 08, 2004. It was my buddy's birthday last night and I got so drunk I passed out on my living room floor, 5 feet from the bathroom where I kept trying to throw up. Ahh the life of a grad student. Alcohol here in NC is relatively cheap, but I still worked up a tab of $70 not including the tip, so I hope my winning streak continues. The EP made the biggest mistake in this hand - when there are 4 or less people in a flop, always. Posted by mike at 3:19 PM.
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Professional Poker Grad Student: Suited Connectors
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Professional Poker Grad Student. Wednesday, October 06, 2004. I must have had aces and kings 7 times within 40 hands, and they held every time. Incredible. No huge pots though, just a bunch of small ones. But, I'll take a small pot over losing a big one any day. Unsuited, I normally fold these without thinking, but being suited is a strong advantage. Not only do you have the extra chance of winning, but you have more reasons to play aggressively. Table My current pot odds forced the second call. The ...
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Professional Poker Grad Student: Slowplaying in Low Limits: A Big Mistake?
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Professional Poker Grad Student. Sunday, October 10, 2004. Slowplaying in Low Limits: A Big Mistake? Hand of the day: I have a tough time making accurate reads when people make plays that I would never consider (mabye this is my problem.I should be considering some even more aggressive plays? Clearly he's trying to advertise or make me emotional, but I feel I played that hand well, and I'd play it the same way next time since very few people will play the hand as he did. I've lost count of how many peopl...
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Professional Poker Grad Student: The Last Month
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Professional Poker Grad Student. Wednesday, November 17, 2004. After this I toook some time to relax and refocus on my game. Now it's as good as ever having won 9.4 BB / 100 in the last 4K hands (not quite the long run and probably not sustainable, but I think reflective of solid play). Also, I wanted to point out that The Cards Speak. Had an excellent post the other day about begin way ahead / way behind that I have experienced in 2/4, but are probably more common in higher limits.
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Professional Poker Grad Student: Number of Winning Players
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Professional Poker Grad Student. Wednesday, November 24, 2004. Number of Winning Players. The sheer number of terrible players on party poker never ceases to amaze me. I wonder how many players on party poker actually make money. According to my PT database, 40% are winning players. This is absolutely meaningless since I don't have another player in my DB with even 1K hands. Mark a few extra BBs for a great read! Posted by mike at 1:18 AM. Great blog site. I have a Question. Number of Winning Players nev...
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Professional Poker Grad Student: September 2004
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Professional Poker Grad Student. Wednesday, September 29, 2004. After hitting a low of $5300, I hope my losing streak is over. A few days of losses really helped me understand why there are so many so skeptical of 'those going pro' on RGP. Fortunately I have a grad student stipend I can pay rent and food on, but I am starting to like the extra income. Sometime I will write on my grad student friends' opinions of my online poker playing. Many terrible players think they are good because they have had some...
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Professional Poker Grad Student: Biggest Poker Game Hole
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Professional Poker Grad Student. Monday, October 18, 2004. Biggest Poker Game Hole. Want to know the biggest change I made, going from an ok player to a strong, consistantly profitable player? I've had more than one person emailing me asking me for advice, and this is the best advice I can give for those that understand the fundamentals of poker and want to make money. It was, by far, the hardest thing for me to do. Don't play when you can't play your best game. Posted by mike at 8:19 PM. I actually stru...
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Professional Poker Grad Student: November 2004
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Professional Poker Grad Student. Wednesday, November 24, 2004. Number of Winning Players. The sheer number of terrible players on party poker never ceases to amaze me. I wonder how many players on party poker actually make money. According to my PT database, 40% are winning players. This is absolutely meaningless since I don't have another player in my DB with even 1K hands. Mark a few extra BBs for a great read! Posted by mike at 1:18 AM. Wednesday, November 17, 2004. Posted by mike at 8:25 PM. I'm a gr...