I think I’ve realized why I’ve been breaking even at 100NL(3BB/100 is basically breaking even IMO). Up until now I’ve been raising preflop 3 times the big blind plus one for every limper. After watching some other players better than me I really think 4 times the big blind plus one for every limper is much more ideal. You might say “Oh yeah I’m sure one big blind is going to make a lot of difference.” But the truth of the matter is “it is.” 4xbb standard raise juices the pot preflop for me so when I do win a pot its actually a substantial size. It also kicks more garbage hands out and keeps them from sticking around to suck out on me. I can’t count how many times my AK has been cracked by some K6 garbage or people calling out of the bb with complete crap. I’m not saying this isn’t going to happen anymore but on the flop when the pot is $6 my continuation bets were usually $4. Now on the flop the pot is $8 and my cont bet is $6. The difference between these continuation bet sizes is huge. People are much less willing to call with worse hands in the latter situation than in the former which directly correlates to me picking up more pots uncontested. It also allows me to build the pot a lot quicker with my good hands. I really feel a huge rush coming on soon.
Note: At first I thought 4xbb was bad because I thought I wasn’t going to get many worse hands to call me but people seem pretty wild lately on party (which I like) and seem to enjoy gambling it up with me. I sat with one guy today who was running like 55/40 and his standard raise was 7xbb. I only reraised him once with 99 and he pushed over. I instacalled and he showed AA. Needless to say I lost the pot but I am still happy with my play here.
I haven’t updated much lately and that’s mostly due to me not playing very much lately. I’m at about 5k hands this week – I’ll post ptracker ss tomorrow.
Hands played: 1500
Profit: -$120ish
Roll: $2546
Total profit: $46