I normally don't play 7k hands/day. Been trying to work real hard lately.
Ya, comes with practice. I have a pretty set approach that I have with my game/strategy, so it's not like each new hand I'm having to think in depth about. I play roughly 22% of my hands, so 78% of those hands are just folds anyways. Then based on board texture/position/# of players in the pot, deciding if a continuation bet on the flop is best is a pretty easy decision since I've seen a million boards before. If you don't take it down right there, that's when the deeper thinking occurs since at that point based on their reaction to my bet, I will try and narrow their range down based on their pf position, what they did pf, and what the board is to determine if they have a draw, or a made hand, and if it's a made hand, whether I think it's a hand that's weak enough to push them off on a later street(if I don't have a hand), or if I think my hand is better than theirs, how can I extract the maximum value from this hand. A lot of those decisions have become 2nd nature to me because of the amount of hands I play, so only maybe 20 times/hour I have a big decision to make on a hand where someone puts me to the test and I'm either not sure exactly where I'm at, or a situation where I know where I'm at, but because of a certain line they took, etc... I need to think deep about how to make sure I extract the maximum amount of value from them on the hand.
Ah I really need to work on playing less hands. I've been playing about 6 hours today and I'm almost dead even -- playing about 48% of my hands to see a flop. Doh!
I play J9 or better -- are you more discriminating than that?
- Hakrjak
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