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Posted Sun May 07, 2006 11:51 pm GMT by Ben4040
Hey everyone... I haven't been around for a while, mostly because I had stopped playing poker for months. But now I am back.
I just got back from college Saturday. I have an internship that is set to begin in June, but that leaves May wide open for me to find some work. However, it seems unlikely that anyone is going to hire me for a month. Rather than go back to this job I had last summer where I made a mere $6/hour I have decided to give playing poker a shot.
Initially I thought I would play SNGs strictly to try to make extra money. It was going well for a while, but the PartyPoker SNGs are a bit slow. I gave the Speed SNGs a try and I was doing well for a while, but after losing 4 in a row yesterday I decided it was faster than I cared for. The ring games had always been frustrating for me, but I came to the conclusion that it might be my best shot for making some extra money this summer.
I bought PokerTracker a while ago and after nearly 5,000 hands logged in for $1/2 limit over the last 6 months or so, it says I make around 1.8 BB per 100 hands. I hadn't opened PokerTracker for a while, so after seeing this statistic my next question was how long did it take for me to play 100 hands in order to figure out how much hourly I could make playing poker this month. Playing 3 tables at a time on PartyPoker, I came to the conclusion that it takes me roughly 30 minutes to play 100 hands. So, in a given hour I will make 3.6 BB.
In the past, using my own primitive Excel spreadsheets, I had calculated that I was making roughly $7/hr playing poker... but I couldn't be certain. Now, if I play $1/2, I can make $7/hr, more than I would if I went back to the miserable job I had last summer. It's something that I can at least work on until my internship starts next month, though playing poker for 8 hours a day is going to get old... probably faster than I can imagine. I start tomorrow.
The main point of my post goes back to the BB/100. Is 1.8 BB per 100 hands good? I thought once I heard someone say that bringing in 4 BB/100 is ideal. Maybe there is something wrong with my play that it is so low? What is a good BB/100 to aim for?
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Posted Mon May 08, 2006 12:45 am GMT by supafrey
"They" usually say that 1-2BB/100 is sustainable for good players. I aim for up to 4-6, yeah.
Posted Mon May 08, 2006 1:20 am GMT by kainARGH
| Ben4040 wrote: | | The main point of my post goes back to the BB/100. Is 1.8 BB per 100 hands good? I thought once I heard someone say that bringing in 4 BB/100 is ideal. Maybe there is something wrong with my play that it is so low? What is a good BB/100 to aim for? |
From what i've read , between 2 and 5 seem to be about average. keep in mind , if your playing EXTREMLY loose tables , you can win upwards of 15-20bb/100 .... however over 25-50k hands you should expect *about* between 2 and 5 bb/100.
Posted Mon May 08, 2006 10:18 am GMT by Ben4040
Dumb question... but just to verify, when PokerTracker measures BB/100 that means "big bet" and not "big blind" correct? So for $1/2 limit the big bet would be $2 and the big blind would be $1.
Posted Mon May 08, 2006 10:27 am GMT by Jernej Zorec
yes its big bets
Posted Mon May 08, 2006 12:08 pm GMT by age_of_sages
Just to note, expect your bb/100 to be lower the more tables you play. playing only one table my bb/100 is about 5, add a table and I'm break even.
Posted Mon May 08, 2006 2:56 pm GMT by kainARGH
| age_of_sages wrote: | | Just to note, expect your bb/100 to be lower the more tables you play. playing only one table my bb/100 is about 5, add a table and I'm break even. |
I've only multi tabled the really low stakes , but i wuold imagine this has to do with stakes you play and personal skill. I wuold imagine you could play 2 tables - if your good at multi tableing - as well as you could play 1. However anything voer 2 tables , ill agree no one can play as well as if they were playing only 1 table.
for me though with the really low limits , i can multi table just as well as i can single table , for simple fact i just play tight ABC poker and no one seems to notice. moving up in limits though , I definatly see what your saying as true. I guess im just curious how high of limit i could multi table , before it started becoming un profitable.
Posted Mon May 08, 2006 10:38 pm GMT by age_of_sages
Oh btw, good luck Ben, good to see you around, I had wondered where you had gotten off to.
Posted Mon May 08, 2006 10:42 pm GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
You may "expect" to get $7 an hour, but in the course of only a month you will probably make somewhere between -$4 an hour and $14 an hour, depending on the fluctuations you get.
Good luck though Ben. I've gone down that road before.
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