Half Way, Tripple Bank Roll

July 6, 2009

Long time no blogging. 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 wave 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 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