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Well I decided not to long ago that I was going to begin writing another blog. To reference my thoughts, ideas, and to give some perspective to other players. I had a lot of thoughts and stories bottled up since last time I wrote in a blog but I shall focus on new ideas and material.
(some history)
May, 2010.
This is around the time where I had broken up from a 1 year relationship, I was still living in my downtown apartment in LA, but I was planning on heading back to Toronto soon, as the LA/Vegas lifestyle really did not suit my interests any further.
In the last few months of my trip I met a Dave a friend of mine who I now consider my "poker mentor"
Dave was a 21 year old student studying at USC not to far from where we lived(he lived a few floors below me) he drive a Aston Martin and he used crush 5/10NL on stars 24 tabling (won the UGL a few times)
Before meeting Dave I kind of struggled at playing 8 tables having to think deeply into every spot, and was focused on always trying to make the "perfect" play. Interestingly, Dave was playing on a 14" laptop having a inch of space for overlapping but still able to maintain focus and doing well (one session I remember him being stuck 24 buy ins and finishing up 17, he rarely ever quits, and just sits through monster amounts of hands lasting 10+ hours)
Dave's explained to me that: Its basically (in general) more profitable to add tables and to sacrifice win rate for hourly. example:: if you play 12 tables at 3bb/100 but play 24 tables at 2bb/100 your hourly will be 50% higher.
So I started to play 24 tables of full ring (I almost never played full ring before, mostly just HU when I played online).
I had some trouble for the first 3-6 months but then I began to do a lot better and show much stronger results.
That is mainly the philosophy I learned from Dave, in addition to minor things like min-opening and light shoving ranges which are well applicable to a mass tabling game style.
I may elaborate more on the above ideas but the purpose of this blog was just to give some perspective of the history.
Anyways that's it for now folks  here are some cool things that I've come across today, this is my new stars avatar, thoughts?
Also really enjoyed this share from a friend.
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k4ir0s Canada. Aug 08 2011 01:55. Posts 3476 | | |
playing more tables can definitely increase your hourly, but surely playing less is more beneficial in the long run? just look at longple's past and present results. I guess it depends on the person tho.
also why is min opening better for mass tabling? I could see it being better if you have a large opening range in early/mid position, since people will 3bet you more often |
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Yeah, it really depends on the person.
min opening is not 100% better for mass tabling, because there are cases where its 100% right to open larger pre flop (esp. at lower stakes) |
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Highcard Canada. Aug 08 2011 02:32. Posts 5428 | | |
because most people do not have as strong a grasp on how to change their calling frequencies vs min opening + requires people to gain less value from 3 betting you + you are less exploitable per each single hand and since your goal is to mass grind hands and not mass grind optimal bet sizing spots, what you want most is reducing your exploitability/variance while taking that 20cents or whatever each hand is worth in the long run.
Would guess it is something like that |
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i dont recommend mass tabling if your not a winning player. Unless ur going for elite or somethin, youll just be stuck in the breakeven grind with the rest of the 200 regs. |
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johnmagi Norway. Aug 08 2011 10:10. Posts 1424 | | | |
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