Some more preliminary analysis.

Although I will be more particular in the future (most likely dividing things by percentiles), I initially just split my sample into those who have large (admirable) win rates, are above even, below even, or are losing chips at a swift rate. I chose to look at box plots- which show the range of the data, the median, and the 25th an 75th percentile.

Here are some charts. I apologize for the format within the post. I'm in a hurry. But click on them and they should explain what they represent.

Minus 8 buyins, meet my friend Kirk. Kirk, minus 8 buyins.

Craptacular Session Tuesday night. I played for 90 minutes, and swonged wildly. I ran bad (3 buyins bad), and made three terrrible preflop decisions as well as one questionable postflop decision in a pot where I 4 bet OOP and was called. I'll post it later.

It sucked. I just lost my cool in a couple of choice spots and bit the big one. C'est la vie.

Session Wrap-up.

I played 3.5 hours of poker today to wind up about even, including rakeback.

On the good side:

1. I played a solid UTG game
2. I didn't tilt.
3. I used notecards to keep my ducks in a row.
4. I discovered a reserve of endurance and enthusiasm

On the down side:

1. Two spots where I probably bluffed a little too aggressively.
2. One huge suckout
3. Disastrous results in a HU session.

All-in all, I am satisfied with my performance. I still have a great deal to improve upon.

Preliminary analysis of a v. large poker hand database.

These are the number of hands played by each player in my poker hand database so far.

You won't be surprised to learn that the biggest winner so far is the house, having won $1.1 million dollars or so, less rakeback.

Long time no blog!

Where have I been?

Nowhere special pokerwise.

I've been playing occasionally- mostly HU limit and short tourneys. I am super high variance at HU, but it's fun. I can beat the driftwood at 1/2, but not the handy regs. Game selection, you say?

This month, I am dedicating my poker time to three things.

1. Improving my consistency and my mental game. 50NL will be me grind, and I plan to work on playing a good, semi loose and aggressive game all the time. Tight upfront, floating only to exploit or to invite in callers with a hand that plays well against them, loose in the back, taking control of 3bet pots, and getting in good value bets on later streets.
2. Playing tournaments if Iget bored of cash play. I plan to put in serious hours.
3. A superficial analysis of what good players have in common, what separates good players from bad ones in multiple situations. I've purchased ~11 million poker hands of 50NL play and plan to do some serious number crunching on it :D.

I'll write more as it comes up.

Today's session went pretty well, although I did run into a set w/AA in a 120 BB pot. The guy put more than 10% of his stack in, so he can't really say he "won". Hellooo, variance.