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A clueless noob reaches 1000 hours of live 1/3 NL

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A Clueless NL Noob Reaches 1000 Hours of Live 1/3 NL

Hi, I’m gobbledygeek! I’ve just reached 1000 hours of live 1/3 NL!

22 February 2013 at 04:52 PM
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7d ago
by FreeCard

You know when to quit!

FWIW, I'm actually semi-embarrassed to admit that it is only fairly recently where I've learned to quit better.

Pre 2024, I only got in one poker session a week. And because it was going to be a week+ before my next poker session, I always felt I had to get in my time at the table, almost no matter what. So my quitting technique was simple: I quit at 9:30pm so I could make the 10:00pm wife-imposed curfew (a very fair and reasonable curfew). The game conditions had no factor in my quitting technique, only the clock on the wall did.

But starting in 2024 I began putting in 2 poker sessions a week, and I put in my own curfew of quitting by 6:30pm so I could make it home by 7:00pm to cook and have dinner with the wife (life balance is key regarding poker, imo). But because I was now playing twice a week, and thus knew I'd be at the table again in just a few days, I no longer felt compelled to always play to that 6:30pm limit. So, if table conditions ain't great for me (which for me is mostly deep against a bunch of deep difficult stacks), I now simply quit earlier than my 6:30pm limit.

So it's actually only recently where I've actually begun quitting when conditions aren't good for me, whereas before I just ~always played it out to the pre-allotted time.

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7d ago
by gobbledygeek

FWIW, I'm actually semi-embarrassed to admit that it is only fairly recently where I've learned to quit better.Pre 2024, I only got in one poker session a week. And because it was going to be a week+ before my next poker session, I always felt I had to get in my time at the table, almost no matter what. So my quitting technique was simple: I quit at 9:30pm so I could make the

I've had a two buy-in stop loss for a looooong time. I'm really bad at chasing losses -- my biggest losing sessions are also my longest sessions.

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2d ago
by AllJackedUp

I've had a two buy-in stop loss for a looooong time. I'm really bad at chasing losses -- my biggest losing sessions are also my longest sessions.

At my small 67bb BI, and with the aim often to get in stacks ASAP, I think a 2 BI stop loss is too small for me. I actually don't have a BI stop loss, but using my super tight method in my game and with my sessions now only averaging ~5 hours, I don't get on that 3rd BI very often (out of 5 BIs that I bring), although it does happen (with me shipping 2.75 BI loss a few sessions ago which is my largest loss in 20 months).

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2yr ago

A Clueless NL Noob Reaches 6000 Hours of Live 1/3 NL

Hi, I’m gobbledygeek! I’ve just reached 6000 hours of live 1/3 NL!

Took me almost 15 years to do. Lol @ me, ldo.

The lol 1000 hour breakdowns in all their glory / ugliness. I included the maximum rake + BBJ drop + high hand promo at the end of each segment; just trying to keep my head above water while getting tossed more and more bricks?

1st: $28.94 (5+1)
2nd: $27.72 (5+1)
3rd: $13.74 (6+1)
4th: $12.33 (7+1)
5th: $19.19 (8+1)
6th: $23.68 (9+1+1)

To be honest, I’m shocked my last two 1000 hour segments went as well as they did due to the ever-increasing rake being such a massive burden. For one fleeting moment after a recent session on March 28, 2024, my winrate sat at $21.00 (officially 7 bbs/hr, yah!)… the first time it has been at $21.00+ since December 31, 2019. On the other hand, it hasn’t been under $20.00 since September 27, 2011. So I got that goin’ for me.

As always, I’m pessimistic about the future. The rake will no doubt go up again soon enough, and it is scary to note that we aren’t even close to what some rooms back east are raking. And after playing 10 handed all this time, last month our room finally went to 9 handed… which my method would not prefer. Like everything, I’ll guess we’ll just see what happens.

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1mo ago

A Clueless NL Noob Reaches 7000 Hours of Live 1/3 NL

Hi, I’m gobbledygeek! I’ve just reached 7000 hours of live 1/3 NL Texas Hold’em!

Only took me 16 years to do too. No big deal, didn’t even really try.

So sitting at $20.85 = 6.95 bb/hr (or $21.12 = 7.04 bb/hr if you include high hand promo bonuses / etc.) at exactly 7000 hours of 1/3 NL.

The lol 1000 hour breakdowns in all their glory / ugliness. In brackets are the totals which include high hand promo bonuses / etc. I also included the maximum rake + BBJ drop + high hand promo at the end of each segment.

1st: $28.98 ($29.08) (5+1)
2nd: $27.70 ($28.80) (5+1)
3rd: $13.75 (6+1)
4th: $12.34 (7+1)
5th: $19.21 (8+1)
6th: $23.61 ($23.85) (9+1+1)
7th: $20.40 ($20.81) (9+1+1)

Kinda semi-surprised I managed to keep above the $20/hr mark this last 1000 hours, although a very recent (and very unexpected) 20 session win streak out-of-the-blue (which destroyed my old record of 15 set in the glory days of 2013 a mere 13 years ago) certainly helped. Obviously increasing rake and high hand promo sucks (I’m getting destroyed at the high hand promo which was introduced in the 6th 1000 hour segment, only hitting 2… which is a mere 55 behind the room leader and undoubtedly an uncontested dead last amongst regs). But my biggest worry heading into this last 1000 hour segment was the fact that our room had changed to 9 handed tables (whereas all the other 1000 hour segments were put in at 10 handed tables). I don’t believe my strategy works as well at shorthanded tables (and for some reason 9 handed tables often seem to be 6 handed, noting there is no rake reduction given at shorthanded tables in our room) plus the blinds zipping around far more quickly than they did in the past doesn’t help either. But I’ve managed to hold my own so far… although over a short lol ~1000 hour sample size (where I’ve undoubtedly sunrun the last ~couple of hundred hours). But it is what it is, as that is the game I have available to me.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before (I think even in a previous 1000 hour update), but my favourite forum quote is from a long gone poster (at least around these parts) named Avaritia who once said, simply, “But I’m still here”. I think that would be the accomplishment I’m most proud of so far, in that: I’m. Still. Here. Since I started playing 1/3 NL back in 2010, I’ve shown up every week at the table, week in, week out, regardless of how things are going (both on and off the felt). I’ve never had to take a mental break or time off from the game or anything like that. I recently added a new column to my Excel spreadsheet which indicates how many days I’ve gone between my 1/3 NL poker sessions. In the past 16 years of playing 1/3 NL I’ve purposely (undoubtedly simply due to life scheduling) taken breaks of 15+ days a mere 3 times (durations of 20, 15 and 15 day, and obviously not including the imposed Coronaids shutdowns). You can certainly criticize a lot of different things about my method, how I approach the game, etc., but you can’t say I don’t show up, each and every week without fail, put my money where my mouth is, and play the game. I think that’s the thing I’m most proud of at this point, just… surviving it all, and reasonably well. Inb4 OP quitting pokr at 7001 hours, ldo.

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1yr ago
by RaiseAnnounced

I appreciate the sincere answer. I'm happy the conversation's going down this path even if I was open to trolling if it went differently 😃I wonder what your thoughts are on forum discussion given people's different motivations and skill levels here. Do you think people benefit from analyzing spots in a way that could be helpful in a lot of games against a lot of players, or do

I think I have three main reasons for posting:

1) It is a mental break from work. I've never posted a single post in this forum away from my work desk. I'm 30 years at my job this month. If I had my nose to the grindstone every single second while at work, I wouldn't have made it this long. I need the occasional goof off time, and posting here satisfies that.

2) Getting the mental reps in is is very helpful to me. I only play once/twice a week and I need that muscle memory built up in-between sessions.

3) I don't think there is one "correct" way (whatever that means) to do almost anything, especially when you factor in that everyone is different with regards to what they are good at / what they ain't / their skillz set / etc. We're not building an atomic bomb here. People can find ~reasonable success for themselves kinda doing their own thing, and I think it is important to encourage that / offer alternatives / call out hardliners.

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