I started data mining party poker a few days ago and I now realize how much more money I could have been making all this time. I have quite the system running right now, when I'm at work or sleeping I have 12 $25 NL tables open on party poker with the help of a program called iWitness. iWitness makes sure that none of the tables ever have less than 8 players, if they ever drop bellow, it will close that table and open a new one with a full 10 players. I have another program running which observes the tables and creates hand histories. I then import all these hand histories into Pokertracker, run SixthSense which tells me which tables are the weakest based on my database and I begin to play.
I usually have statistics on 30% of the players at the $25 NL level at any givin time, which is not bad considering I have only been doing this for a week, with the help of www.hand-histories.com I will soon be able to sit at any $25 NL and never have to guess as to how some of the players play, in other words, $$$.
Last night, I only played one table because my registration code for Ace Hud has not come in yet and I didnt want to play tables unless the statistics were overlayed. It's ok tho because I had 11 other tables going for data mining purposes. Anyway, SixthSense picked out this really weak table and I completly crushed it. Its truely amazing how easy it is to beat players when you have a database on how they play - I know who will defend this blinds, who will try and steal blinds, how often people raise pre-flop, how often people cold call, how many hands they play, how often they go to showdown... how can I lose? Anyway, after about 1 hour I tripled my buy in to $75 at which point I left because the players were starting change, but not before I added a few of the worst from that table to my buddy list, give a little help to sixth sense.
I'll keep giving you guys updates, my little experiment is almost over, when I have all the kinks worked out I'll probably more back up to $50 NL.
p.s. My worst hand in terms of BB/100 is AKo - I'm gonna have to work on that, clearly a leak in my game.
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This is very interesting. Let me know if there are any nuggets of information you learn from all of this...
I know its pretty easy to pick weak tables.
Even if your not going to go as hardcore at me, its worth trying out.
For example, you can load up 10 tables, turn on your data mining tool, go watch tv for 30 minutes, come back, sit down and have a read on all of the players.
For example, if I saw you playing, you would probably have a VPIP(% of hands you play) of like 6, a PFR of 5 and that you never steal blinds. So if you raised, I would fold hands as good as A/Q or A/K because I know best case scenario, we have the same hand.
Powerful, powerful stuff.
Bruno
I think you assume to much about how I play.
On the button/cutoff I steal A LOT!
I play around 14% of my hands.
My passive comment is not how I always play - just some of the time. Its important to mix up your play. One thing I usually do is start out my first hour playing uber tight/passive. Then as time passes I get much more aggressive. If you check a lot and people notice - they give you more credit than they should when you bet. :)
"I play 10 tables, and only play AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, 99, AKs, AK, AQs"
sorry, was basing my assumption on that statement.
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