Jul 022006
Well June ’06 was a mixed month for me. On one hand in the cash games it’s been my best month so far up over 280 big blinds over around 5800 hands:
But tournaments both large and small were a different story with an ROI of -46% (this is on-line only so doesn’t include my first place at the monthly home game, which would improve this number a bit).
So then, my goals for July:
- Keep the solid cash game going at my new limit.
- Keep playing the low-level NL hold’em tournaments, aim for a positive return for the month.
- Read “Harrington on Hold’em” volumes 1 and 2 (on order from Amazon, due to arrive middle of the month – darn international shipping).
Did you make that graph with pokerpatterns?
Nice run for the month, are all of those hands at .25/.50 limit?
So I guess your BB/100 hands in PokerTracker must have been 4.8 for the month.
Not playing NL anymore, and sticking with limit?
That graph was made with a program called “Poker Grapher” which unfortunately has stopped working since I converted my PT database to PostgreSQL. Looking for an alternative so I’ll checkout pokerpatterns.
The majority of those hands were .25/.50 with a few (only 150) at .5/1, for now I’m sticking with limit as I’m enjoying myself and doing reasonably at it. Will return to no-limit sometime in the future but I’m in no hurry, still got a lot of tweaking to do to my limit game.
Oh and you’re spot on with the BB/100.
I believe that a BB/100 of 4.8 is considered quite excellent
at small stakes limit poker. I may be wrong there, but it appears
that you’re doing quite well. And that almost certainly does not
include any extra money that you’re receiving from bonuses, correct?
I’ve been using PT for about two months, and haven’t converted it.
Do you see any advantage to converting away from the Access database
towards the SQL?
4.8 BB/100 is quite good, it was a good month. Anything over 3 is considered excellent and I’m averaging nearly 4 over the 36000 or so hands I have in Poker Tracker. I never get too excited about this though, people will tell you all the time you need hundreds of thousands before you get anything close to accurate numbers. Still anything above 0 is good, so I’m happy with the results so far
Any numbers I post on here don’t include bonuses. I haven’t really started chasing bonuses in any serious way yet.
I’ve been running the PostgreSQL PT DB for a few weeks now and I have noticed a performance improvement. Disadvantages are that some software doesn’t work well with it (PokerGrapher for one, GameTime+ required modification on my part to get working). Reading the PT forums though it seems that as your DB grows PostgreSQL is your only option if you don’t want to use multiple databases.