♠ Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Week Five Wrapup
Week five was up, in the range it's supposed to be up, but still leaves me a bit unsatisfied.
Week one was absolutely stellar, as I reported, going up (I believe) +$1377. Then, I gave it back and more during weeks two and three, but I've also said that I don't really have a good idea how much I lost. So, I started keeping a log for week four, and registered a small positive gain. And finally, in week five, I registered a gain I think of as "average."
But even though I'm winning, I am given to wonder if I am winning enough. In 500 hands or more a night, I feel like I should be winning more than the 3.5 BB/c, 2.21 BB/hr, that I have been.
Okay, I look at those numbers (I used PokerTracker to filter out sessions from before two weeks ago) and they don't actually seem that bad. Clearly I'm whining about nothing.
But I still want to improve my game. I look at posts like this one that I linked yesterday, and wonder how my game is. Specifically, my preflop raise percentage is lower than the author (responder, really) suggests is appropriate.
I think sometime (later tonight, probably) I'll post up my PokerTracker "more details" for comments. I'll filter it for the last five weeks, or maybe less; there's a few hands of $5/$10, 50¢/$1, $1/$2, $1/$2 6-max, and others which would skew my stats.
Maybe I was wrong about the fish growing up. I'm on a couple of $3/$6 tables right now, and seeing a lot of loose-passive players. Maybe my initial thoughts about playing after midnight are incorrect; maybe the worse players, the recreational players, are playing during the evening. Which makes sense. (Actually, I look where PokerTracker keeps track of how you do by time of day, or day of week, and it's clear that I don't have enough of a statistical universe to draw any kind of conclusions. At all.)
I'm going to attempt an HTML table, here, rather than my usual fixed-width font table--it's got to be easier than replacing spaces with 's to make the table line up.
| Date | Location | Time | Limit | Results | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3/2 | PP MTT | 11PM 3/1 | Limit | - 55.00 | Finish 196th |
| Little River | 3:30PM | Limit | - 40.00 | Tourney, Finish ~25th | |
| PP C.R.9547 | 9:15P-9:45 | $3/$6 | - 77.00 | ||
| PP C.R.3043 | 9:15P-9:50 | $3/$6 | - 28.00 | ||
| 3/2 TOTAL: -200.00 | |||||
| 3/3 | PP C.R.4222 | 7:35P-8:55 | $3/$6 | - 34.00 | |
| PP C.R.2686 | 7:35P-8:35 | $3/$6 | - 31.50 | ||
| PP C.R.1389 | 8:35P-8:50 | $3/$6 | - 13.00 | ||
| 3/3 TOTAL: - 78.50 | |||||
| 3/4 | PP C.R.3683 | 11:30A-11:55 | $3/$6 | - 12.00 | Server Reset |
| PP C.R.3715 | 11:30A-11:55 | $3/$6 | - 89.00 | Server Reset | |
| PP Bellarista | 8:30P-2:10A | $3/$6 | +312.50 | ||
| PP Over the Horizon | 8:30P-9:35 | $3/$6 | - 28.00 | moore00--tough | |
| PP It's Your Life | 9:40P-2:10A | $3/$6 | +125.63 | ||
| 3/4 TOTAL: +125.63 | |||||
| 3/5 | PP Bellarista | 8:00P-8:35 | $3/$6 | - 42.00 | |
| PP A nony loves a... | 8:00P-9:00 | $3/$6 | - 61.50 | ||
| PP French Fries | 8:35P-9:10 | $3/$6 | - 29.75 | ||
| PP Connecting Vibes | 9:00P-10:40 | $3/$6 | + 61.50 | ||
| PP Multiplicity | 9:15P-10:40 | $3/$6 | -164.00 | Rebuy | |
| PP Jumpin Jacks | 9:40P-11:25 | $3/$6 | + 4.25 | ||
| PP Gallopin Goose... | 10:45P-11:20 | $3/$6 | - 25.00 | ||
| PP High Hopes | 12:40A-5:30 | $3/$6 | +254.00 | $100 rally at end | |
| PP Gold Canyon | 12:40A-1:05 | $3/$6 | - 24.00 | ||
| PP cuckoo's nest | 1:05A-5:30 | $3/$6 | +295.75 | Deck hit me Huge | |
| 3/5 TOTAL: +268.75 | |||||
| 3/6 | PP Jumpin Jacks | 1:10A-2:20 (3/7) | $3/$6 | - 56.50 | |
| PP Peanuts | 1:10A-2:00 | $3/$6 | + 36.37 | Hdouble on table | |
| PP Brownies | 2:05A-4:10 | $3/$6 | + 12.75 | ||
| PP Bohemian Rhapsody | 2:15A-2:45 | $3/$6 | + 52.00 | Hdouble on table early | |
| PP High Hopes | 2:50A-3:00 | $3/$6 | - 23.00 | ||
| PP Chimney Sweeper | 3:00A-5:20 | $3/$6 | + 16.50 | ||
| PP Captain's Choice | 4:10A-6:00 | $3/$6 | + 27.50 | ||
| PP Push and Pull | 5:20A-6:00 | $3/$6 | - 92.75 | ||
| 3/6 TOTAL: - 27.13 | |||||
| 3/7 | PP Captain's Choice | 12:10A-2:25(3/8) | $3/$6 | - 63.00 | |
| PP Flombe | 12:10A-1:45 | $3/$6 | - 25.50 | Tight | |
| PP Ice Cheese | 1:15A-4:40 | $3/$6 | +312.00 | Picked high avg pot table | |
| PP On the rocks | 2:30A-5:25 | $3/$6 | + 71.00 | ||
| PP Tbl 12795 | 4:40A-5:25 | $3/$6 | - 18.00 | ||
| 3/7 TOTAL: +276.60 | |||||
| 3/8 | PP Tick-tac-toe | ~5P-? | 50¢/$1 | - 9.51 | Omaha Hi-lo experiment |
| PP High Hopes | 1:10A-2:10(3/9) | $3/$6 | -108.00 | ||
| PP Over the Horizon | 1:10A-3:05 | $3/$6 | -156.00 | Rebuy | |
| PP On the Rocks | 2:10A-6:45 | $3/$6 | +112.75 | ||
| PP cuckoo's nest | 3:10A-6:45 | $3/$6 | + 60.75 | ||
| 3/8 TOTAL: -100.01 | |||||
| WEEK 5 TOTAL: +448.74 | |||||
| CUMULATIVE WEEKS 4-__ +687.74 | |||||
Whew! Okay, next time I see if Excel can generate HTML for a table ... this was, like, all hard, and stuff. I'm not sure this was any easier than the fixed-width tables I created the last couple of times. It looks better, though, at least after I see it and tweak it.
The immediate thing that one notices is that the trend seems mostly to be down ... except for a few big days, on a few big tables. I've noticed this when playing, too: My stack trends down, or fluctuates a bit with small pots, until I catch a big huge pot, and then I do the same from the new higher level. I don't know if that's normal; it seems to make sense, but I don't think any of the books I've seen have covered it.
The other thing I notice is a very high variance. Poker tracker reports, for the last two weeks, a Standard Deviation per Hour of $73.54, and a Standard Deviation per 100 Hands of $92.05. I don't know how this stacks up against other players; I'd be interested in hearing about their numbers. In fact, I'd be interested in comments generally. (I'll be posting my Summary a bit later tonight.)
