Tournament Statistics
Certainly an above average year in tournaments, with an FTOPS win, a WCOOP final table, a SCOOP final table bubble, and a top 100 finish in the WSOP Main Event. No room to complain about anything here. My true ROI is probably in the neighborhood of 100%, so I ran well above expectation. The high average buy-in and field size indicate that I focused my play on big buy-in events and special huge-field events like the WCOOP, FTOPS, and Sunday tournaments, which was the goal.
ROI: 395.8%
ITM: 17.5%
Average Buy-In: $546
Average Field Size: 2,204
Average Finish: 38.7%
Win Rate: .73 Buy-Ins/Hour
Biggest Win: $2000 FTOPS 2-Day NLHE
Cash Game Statistics
These numbers aren’t as bad as they look. Basically I got creamed in some high stakes heads up games, and those dragged down my overall win rates. Excluding heads up games, I’m up across the board, even in high-stakes games (2.5 BB/100 win rate). Basically I just need to either get better at heads up, stop playing it, or at least practice better game selection.
I’m also a little unhappy with the number of hands played. Because of my nomadic lifestyle, I was on my laptop for most of the year, with just one monitor. Thus I often played just 4 tables at once. It’s been nice getting back on two monitors, and I’m looking forward to getting a lot more hands in for 2011.
Hands Played: 254,356
Win Rates (in BB/100)
Overall: 1.65
6-Max: 2.11
Full Ring: 5.07
Heads Up: -7.7
Mid-Stakes: 3.01
High Stakes: -2.52
Best Game
10/20 Pot Limit Hold ‘Em. Played 3 hands and won $270, for a win rate of 450 BB/100.
If you want a serious answer, it’s $2/4 Rush NLHE Full Ring, where I played 75K hands with a 6.55 BB/100 win rate.
Worst Game
1/2 Rush NLHE 6-Max. Played one hand and lost $2, so -100 BB/100. Somewhat more devestating was my -31.44 BB/100 over 2700 hands of 25/50 Heads Up NLHE.
Biggest Pot Won, in BBs
434.19 BB’s
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $6.00 BB (6 handed) – Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
UTG ($638.50)
Hero (MP) ($2983.35)
CO ($1403.05)
Button ($4023.40)
SB ($2525.35)
BB ($1822.90)
Preflop: Hero is MP with 10
, 10
1 fold, Hero bets $24, 1 fold, Button raises to $72, SB raises to $192, 1 fold, Hero raises to $444, 1 fold, SB calls $252
Flop: ($966) 10
, 2, 6 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks
Turn: ($966) 5 (2 players)
SB bets $625, Hero calls $625
River: ($2216) 8
(2 players)
SB bets $1455.15 (All-In), Hero calls $1455.15
Total pot: $5126.30 | Rake: $3
Results:
SB had A, A (one pair, Aces).
Hero had 10, 10 (three of a kind, tens).
Outcome: Hero won $5130.50
Biggest Pot Won, $
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $80.00 BB (5 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Button ($10690)
Hero (SB) ($14549)
BB ($25279)
UTG ($12963.50)
MP ($53395.50)
Preflop: Hero is SB with K, K
UTG bets $240, 2 folds, Hero raises to $960, 1 fold, UTG raises to $2400, Hero raises to $14549 (All-In), UTG calls $10563.50 (All-In)
Flop: ($26007) K, 4, 8 (2 players, 2 all-in)
Turn: ($26007) 5 (2 players, 2 all-in)
River: ($26007) 7 (2 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: $26007 | Rake: $3
Results:
Hero had K, K (three of a kind, Kings).
UTG had A, A (one pair, Aces).
Outcome: Hero won $26004
Biggest Pot Lost, in BBs
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $6.00 BB (5 handed) – Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
UTG ($566.40)
MP ($3683.60)
Button ($1845.30)
Hero (SB) ($2330.80)
BB ($2075.40)
Preflop: Hero is SB with A, K
2 folds, Button bets $18, Hero raises to $77, 1 fold, Button calls $59
Flop: ($160) A, K, 8 (2 players)
Hero bets $122, Button calls $122
Turn: ($404) 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $333, Button calls $333
River: ($1070) 10 (2 players)
Hero bets $777, Button raises to $1312.10 (All-In), Hero calls $535.10
Total pot: $3694.20 | Rake: $2
Results:
Button had Q, J (royal flush).
Hero had A, K (two pair, Aces and Kings).
Outcome: Button won $3698.20
Biggest Pot Lost, in $
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $50.00 BB (2 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Hero (SB) ($17121)
BB ($13686.50)
Preflop: Hero is SB with A, 4
Hero bets $100, BB raises to $350, Hero raises to $950, BB calls $600
Flop: ($1900) A, 8, 4 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $999, BB raises to $3175, Hero raises to $5351, BB raises to $12736.50 (All-In), Hero calls $7385.50
Turn: ($27373) 2 (2 players, 1 all-in)
River: ($27373) 2 (2 players, 1 all-in)
Total pot: $27373 | Rake: $0.50
Results:
Hero had A, 4 (two pair, Aces and fours).
BB had 4, 4 (full house, fours over twos).
Outcome: BB won $27372.50
How did 2010 treat you?
Your 6.55 BB/100 win rate in $2/4 Rush NLHE Full Ring over sample 75K hands is spectacular.
When rush poker was introduced I was very sceptical I assumed that the game will evolve and it will be a zero-sum game
The game format seemed to limit your ability to make player specific -exploitative play.
The game where 99% of participants will finally deploy similar “optimal” strategy something like:tight is right and rock it up, and rake it in.
Your example shows how I was wrong.You should post more about Rush concepts.
Happy New Year Andrew and better stat in 2011!
Thanks! You don’t need a player-specific strategy to play exploitively (although you can get those as well, at 2/4- I have thousands of hands on some regs). There are exploitable mistakes common to most players at a given stake. Also not everyone knows how/wants to play “solid” and what most people mean by solid is actually quite exploitable anyway (not bluffing enough, for one thing, and playing badly/predictably in deep-stacked situations).
OK.TRUE. but stilll you are missing plenty of information vs standard format poker.
Table dynamics,sesion dynamics,your opponnet emotional state are jut example.
Lately I realize that when facing difficult dicision I utilize not just assumption my opponnet logical reasoning but his emotions too.
Andrew you are “killing poker robot” with “good” internalized poker objectives – self improvement,etc.
Most players are not like you.
Their primary internalized objective is: “Just Win”. Failure or success change their “decision tree”.
Example
In hu sng 50BB effective stack my opponnet goes 4 times preflop insta-allin in a row.
The opposite will be true.
I go allin and this is this my 4th attempt in a row.
In Rush you will have very limited context when facing my allin.
Gratz on an pretty epic tournament year!