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I only play on pokerstars, and recently did a rebuild from 50$. Only at ~16/25nl now, but strangely enough - my rake to profit ratio at the lowest stakes was way way lower than it is at the current. I expect this to be the norm until nl100.

With your experience and understanding of the game, you should be able to absolutely smash these stakes. 1000 hands? Win a couple buy-ins imo. As for getting better, I've heard that it gets better at 200nl'sh. I've never been a reg at those games, so I dunno. I try not to look into rake anyway, same as I try not to give a flying shit about EV graphs. Fuck ev graphs.

Just monsterfuck them, and you'll be fine.

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ya well rake is synonym for rape bro

u ever play path of exile? there's a mob called hailrake aka hailrape, same thing really, holy fuq she fukin rapes

Thats what I was thinking too Highcard.

you either have to table select hardcore when masstabling or cut to 2 to 4 tables and destroy regs to beat rake and move up fast.

On January 14 2013 05:55 LemOn[5thF] wrote: you either have to table select hardcore when masstabling or cut to 2 to 4 tables and destroy regs to beat rake and move up fast.

wut. table select 'hardcore'? at nl5? or even nl50 for that matter. wtf is going on in this world, I feel like I'm missing something.

looks like you are, the rake is a huge factor there is noway u can be a reg in those games and turn profit with 5 other regs at the table when you multitable.

i took a break from playing to focus on school but read alot of theory watched a bunch of videos and since coming back my winrate went from breakeven to 3.68 bb/100 (only 20k hand sample). I think basic table selection has a lot to do with it, i tag all the regs orange and since carbon always has < 30 tables of 4nl 6max i can go through all the tables pretty much and find the 6 best. Even doing that alot of the time i have 2-3 regs at my tables because if your going to play 16-20 tables your going to be sitting at pretty much every table.

Oh yeah dude micro rake is fucked up. I just crossed the 10k hand threshold of PLO4 and have paid $150 in rake. Thats about 40 BI's in rake at 10k hands. I've been breakeven as a result the entire time, just using it as opportunity to practice PLO. If I were crushing at 10-20BB it'd be beatable I guess, but I'm still learning.

Raaake.

On January 14 2013 11:42 Rinny wrote: i took a break from playing to focus on school but read alot of theory watched a bunch of videos and since coming back my winrate went from breakeven to 3.68 bb/100 (only 20k hand sample). I think basic table selection has a lot to do with it, i tag all the regs orange and since carbon always has < 30 tables of 4nl 6max i can go through all the tables pretty much and find the 6 best. Even doing that alot of the time i have 2-3 regs at my tables because if your going to play 16-20 tables your going to be sitting at pretty much every table.

This. I think of them as road-bumps.

edit - and yeah lemon, I agree about the playing a table full of the tougher regs. I usually just go by avg. vpip.. if it's in the red, tight as fuck, I'll move on. Otherwise, sweet. Regs are fun to fuck with too, ya know?

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just table select a bit, if u can't beat nl4 by real 15bb/100 or more (so 5bb/100 with rb) you are gonna have a bad time later anyway