tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083330322113258405.post8158060110451495339..comments2023-08-02T07:07:45.500-07:00Comments on bastin: A QuickieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083330322113258405.post-40595543208991014412008-08-28T03:35:00.000-07:002008-08-28T03:35:00.000-07:00"However, I have not tried multi-tabling them."B, ..."However, I have not tried multi-tabling them."<BR/><BR/>B, multi-tabling is something i wish I'd started sooner. It all felt a bit foreign at first as it wasn't I'd practiced at PAO. <BR/><BR/>In hindsight, as Sandy's mentioned it helps my game. If you're paying pretty tight, it's not that common that you're caught in a tricky spot between 2 tables. Of course, it CAN happen but sometimes that helps as you can't over-read the situation and dwell too long. Generally speaking though, I'm flipping between tables folding most hands and I actually have time to still read hand histories and take notes.<BR/><BR/><BR/>FGForrest Gumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06314271152182792365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083330322113258405.post-42057070258937746082008-08-27T10:50:00.000-07:002008-08-27T10:50:00.000-07:00To tell the truth, the strategy I am using right n...To tell the truth, the strategy I am using right now is fairly simple. I use Gump's table selection standards, with a little bit of leeway for nights where primo games aren't available, and I play extra tight. When I'm certain I've got the better of it, I make sure my bets give my opponents crap odds to call the typical chasing hands (4-flushes, OE straights, etc). I generally bet about double pot for both - and I almost always get a call. They draw out sometimes, but the value I'm generating should lead to an overall profit in those situations. I generally use my min-betting trick (see my Poker Drivel blog) when I hit any part of the flop. Often it's a small portion of the pot and I take it down. If they raise, I generally make a show of thinking about it, then bail as I'd predetermined to do. Sometimes I'll pull the same trick with a monster made hand (flopped nut flush, flopped set with rainbow board, etc) just to keep them honest... If someone's in the habit of raising my bets, this will give them a chance to step in it while I've got them clobbered.<BR/><BR/>It's very simple poker. I do very little trapping, except as stated above, and hardly any bluffing at all. It wouldn't work at all if the players at the levels weren't so laughably bad. There may be a more efficient strategy out there, but I'm showing a decent rate of gain so far even though I've already run into two full nights of heinously bad luck (in a week's play) and need to get better at laying certain hands down, like lower straights... But still a +20% net gain in a week on an average of an hour a night isn't too bad. (I was at +50% until the really bad runs, dove down to -30%, and grinded back up to +20%...)<BR/><BR/>I play 4 tables... Like you, I can't successfully play 1 table. I don't have the patience for it, especially at the micro stakes. The multitabling is what makes this whole strategy work for me. You end up playing tight by default... Because you don't have time to do anything else.<BR/><BR/>Also I avoid playing at a given table too long... Partly because people might catch on to my strategy and partly because other people out there are also trolling for these kinds of tables, so in time the fish get busted and you wind up playing other sharks.<BR/><BR/>Bast, man, rest assured I've gone through these exact same struggles. Everything you have said sounds familiar to me. You'll make it through this and I'm dead convinced both of us can make money playing poker... Despite the bumps and bruises along the way.PAPro_SandManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17843500037071834709noreply@blogger.com