October was a busy month both on and off the felt. I just finished a few big writing projects and have a couple more lined up in November. I’ll also be working diligently this month to get two e-products created (one poker related) and find a way to offer free videos of my games without it costing me a bunch of money.
As for my work on the felt, I’m in 4 different poker rooms now: Absolute, Bodog, Full Tilt and a smaller site that where I prop. Table selection is becoming a HUGE part of my strategy because I’m playing $1/$2 and a little $2/$4 on a $3k bankroll, so I’m playing a very nittish strategy against the decent players and exploiting the bejesus out of the shitty ones.
I look for a table with one or two players playing 40/4 or worse and try to get a seat on their left. I generally respect their raisings (only raising 4% of your hands? Come on!), but I raise their limps with all kinds of speculative garbage.
KT offsuit? Good.
T8 suited? Raise it up!
58 suited? That’ll play.
It’s like printing money. These guys call a lot pre-flop, but fold to a lot of C-bets and double barrels. If they ever get real aggressive, I know I’m beat and can fold easily unless I catch a monster.
The best part is when you showdown a straight with a hand like 74 suited (that you raised pre-flop). People lose their shit. You can play super tight and still get action. Occasionally a good player will catch on to what you’re going and start playing at you, but that’s when the leveling goodness starts.
I’m not going crazy though. I usually make these plays only when I think I have a good chance of iso-ing my target and my stats still look fairly tight aggressive.
Overall the strategy has been very profitable and very low variance for me and it does a great job of camouflaging my big hands so I can get paid when I hit. Here’s what I’m looking at so far in each account:
Absolute: $574.65
Full Tilt: $529.88
Bodog: $1,499.98
Prop Site: $529.29
Total Bankroll: $3,133.21
It looks like $5k is still in my reach for the end of the year, especially if I can make time to play more.
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