Online Cycle
Got a chance to play a little more today, since I don’t really have anywhere to go and have a lot of time to bum around while waiting to see what’s happened to my loft.
I’m beginning to think there’s a cycle to online buyins. I tend to buy in, go up to 3 or 4 times what I bought in for where I continue to flop sets and make flushes, etc.
Then around the 4x or 5x my original buy in state, say, after a week, I begin to get into the “online setup” hands, where I see 3 people flopping sets all at once, and dudes hits their 2 outers over and again. It’s kind of like a cycle.
I have a friend who does it like this: buys in, doubles up, cashes out. Like clears his account. Then buys back into the system for another initial amount. And he tends to never see those weird beats.
More food for thought.
My account right now, which I built up from $0, won a freeroll, got a tournament chip, won about $100, and am now at $400 or so after a few nasty beats tonight, I am going to be careful with. I am going to try not to get stuck in those weird beats. Maybe I’ll play a day, wait a week. See what happens. Experiment.
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2 opinions for Online Cycle
Jereme
Mar 17, 2008 at 12:12 pm
The only problem is that eventually, at a higher limit, people won’t play with you if you cash out every time you double up.
why give action where it is not given back. I don’t think it’s as big of a deal at lower limits because the pool of players is much larger but when you go up in stakes the field of players tend to be the same everywhere you go.
And soon you’ll find no one will engage in a hand with you or they will even exclude you from playing with them.
I think what makes the pros great players is that they know when to lay down big hands that are beaten (i.e. set of 3’s against a set of 7’s).
it is something that comes with experience.
Blake
Mar 17, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I don’t think my friend plays with the intention of moving up limits. I think there’s an endless enough pool that he can continue to do so. I personally don’t like the ‘hit and run’ people either.
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