Some good things happening over at UltimateBet lately. First, I just received my first bonus payment after reaching 100 player points. $5 added to my account. That was nice. I could get used to that. For some reason there something very satisfying about getting the free $5.
$95 to go on the 200% initial sign on bonus. At $0.25/$0.50 LHE it seems to clear at an OK rate. So if I can just play break even at the tables I can make profit from the bonus. I'm around break even so far, and the $0.25/$0.50 LHE seems a pretty beatable game. There seem to be enough bad players there that it should be possible to play break even at least - hopefully.
Also UB told me I've been increased to "Player" status. Which is kind of funny because I don't play a lot of hands and because of bankroll only single table UB. So it's not too hard to become a Player on UB. Now Player does have a nice benefit. As a Player or better, you can use your playing points at a penny each to enter tournaments. Right now with a little over 100 points I could cash them out to enter a $1 tournament. That's a pretty good way to cash out your points for something really useful. I'm going to hang onto mine and plan to use them for a $5.50 tournament when I get to that level. It's nice I get to double use my points both for clearing bonus, then to use them again as cash equivalent tournament entry fees.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Bought hold'em manager
I've bought hold'em manager. I was using PokerTracker3 trial. I found with PT3 it was dragging down my system performance. I upgraded my RAM from 750 Mb to 1.5 Gb but it didn't seem to help a whole lot.
So I tried the HEM 15 day trial. It seems to work better on my PC. Also it has the HUD for UltimateBet working today. PT3 just promises it for some unspecified future date [they've already slipped the original target UB date]. Plus as a micro stakes player I can get a low stakes version of HEM for $55. That's a bit cheaper than PT3.
The HUD seems fine on HEM. It does what I want. The post game analysis is a bit better and more polished on PT3, so I hope HEM can catch up. A small change that would be an immediate benefit would be to show the current active filter name in HEM, I wish they had that.
So another small investment in my poker hobby I guess. I find I enjoy having a HUD and it does seem to help a bit with multi tabling. Maybe I could use some help. I've been getting knocked backward at $0.25/$0.50 LHE on both Stars and UB. Still I'm feeling upbeat. I may not be playing especially well. I could beat it in the past so I hope to be running better soon. On UB my bankroll for $0.25/$0.50 LHE is down to around 70BB so I hope to get moving upward before I go bust there.
So I tried the HEM 15 day trial. It seems to work better on my PC. Also it has the HUD for UltimateBet working today. PT3 just promises it for some unspecified future date [they've already slipped the original target UB date]. Plus as a micro stakes player I can get a low stakes version of HEM for $55. That's a bit cheaper than PT3.
The HUD seems fine on HEM. It does what I want. The post game analysis is a bit better and more polished on PT3, so I hope HEM can catch up. A small change that would be an immediate benefit would be to show the current active filter name in HEM, I wish they had that.
So another small investment in my poker hobby I guess. I find I enjoy having a HUD and it does seem to help a bit with multi tabling. Maybe I could use some help. I've been getting knocked backward at $0.25/$0.50 LHE on both Stars and UB. Still I'm feeling upbeat. I may not be playing especially well. I could beat it in the past so I hope to be running better soon. On UB my bankroll for $0.25/$0.50 LHE is down to around 70BB so I hope to get moving upward before I go bust there.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Playing some limit
I've been playing some limit hold'em again recently.
First an update on $10 NL cash. It's actually going fairly well so far. On PokerStars I'm up around 2 buyins after around a small 1000 hands sample for a win rate of around 11BB/100. On UltimateBet I'm down around 1 buyin after about 2000 hands for a win rate of around -2.8 BB/100.
There are good $10 NL games on UB, I just may not be running well or playing as well as I need to. The $10 NL games seem slightly better on Stars [I stacked a guy AA over KK all in preflop for 85 bb] and I also seem to be running well so far there. Sample sizes are small so it's hard to read much into the results.
Anyway about limit. The thing about UltimateBet was that it seems pretty much impossible to clear the bonus at $10 NL. The "points" you need to accumulate to unlock the bonus accumulate very slowly at $10 NL. So I thought of trying limit to see if that would generate points faster.
I've always enjoyed limit, and had some success at Stars playing full ring up to $0.25/$0.50. So I tried limit on UB. First I accidentally got into a $0.50/$1.00 game that was full of bad players. I won a $13 hand with AA holding up to the river but that was the only pot I won in 50 hands. I ended up down around $2, not too bad.
I meant to be playing $0.25/$0.50 on UB. Right now I have around a 90 BB bankroll at that level on UB. So there's a non zero chance I could go bust on UB if I hit a downswing. If it happens so be it. The worst downswing I've seen in LHE single tabling full ring has been around 50BB so hopefully I won't bust and I can clear this bonus.
At $0.25/$0.50 the full ring action is nearly dead and it's all 6max. That's a very challenging experience. It's an aggressive game and I'm trying to learn it as I go. I have seen some bad players so hopefully I can do a good job of table selection to find profitable situations.
While playing at UB, I've also returned to my historic favorite game, $0.25/$0.50 LHE on Stars. The Stars game seems as good as I remember it. I hope to grind up some BB and get comfortable again and start mixing in some shots at $0.50/$1.00. If I can get comfortable at 6max on UB then I might try $0.50/$1.00 6max on Stars. I haven't had much success historically at $0.50/$1.00 FR on Stars.
And the UB bonus does clear at this level. Every orbit I see points accumulating and points are worth around 10 cents each if I understand how they work. So this is good, I may be able to clear this bonus in some finite time.
First an update on $10 NL cash. It's actually going fairly well so far. On PokerStars I'm up around 2 buyins after around a small 1000 hands sample for a win rate of around 11BB/100. On UltimateBet I'm down around 1 buyin after about 2000 hands for a win rate of around -2.8 BB/100.
There are good $10 NL games on UB, I just may not be running well or playing as well as I need to. The $10 NL games seem slightly better on Stars [I stacked a guy AA over KK all in preflop for 85 bb] and I also seem to be running well so far there. Sample sizes are small so it's hard to read much into the results.
Anyway about limit. The thing about UltimateBet was that it seems pretty much impossible to clear the bonus at $10 NL. The "points" you need to accumulate to unlock the bonus accumulate very slowly at $10 NL. So I thought of trying limit to see if that would generate points faster.
I've always enjoyed limit, and had some success at Stars playing full ring up to $0.25/$0.50. So I tried limit on UB. First I accidentally got into a $0.50/$1.00 game that was full of bad players. I won a $13 hand with AA holding up to the river but that was the only pot I won in 50 hands. I ended up down around $2, not too bad.
I meant to be playing $0.25/$0.50 on UB. Right now I have around a 90 BB bankroll at that level on UB. So there's a non zero chance I could go bust on UB if I hit a downswing. If it happens so be it. The worst downswing I've seen in LHE single tabling full ring has been around 50BB so hopefully I won't bust and I can clear this bonus.
At $0.25/$0.50 the full ring action is nearly dead and it's all 6max. That's a very challenging experience. It's an aggressive game and I'm trying to learn it as I go. I have seen some bad players so hopefully I can do a good job of table selection to find profitable situations.
While playing at UB, I've also returned to my historic favorite game, $0.25/$0.50 LHE on Stars. The Stars game seems as good as I remember it. I hope to grind up some BB and get comfortable again and start mixing in some shots at $0.50/$1.00. If I can get comfortable at 6max on UB then I might try $0.50/$1.00 6max on Stars. I haven't had much success historically at $0.50/$1.00 FR on Stars.
And the UB bonus does clear at this level. Every orbit I see points accumulating and points are worth around 10 cents each if I understand how they work. So this is good, I may be able to clear this bonus in some finite time.
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