ASB - Session 8

This session: 266 hands, ASB 43 (30/63)
Total: 2179 hands, ASB 54 (317/745)

Light CO steals: 2
Light Bu steals: 2

I think I'm going to move back up to 3 tables again next time. I'm feeling pretty comfortable with how things are going, and I think can increase the number of hands by 50% without losing much. It's surprising to me how little overall change there is after increasing the ASB, even with it being 10 higher than the goal. This is probably because I failed to account for the effect of SB steals. I'm only up to 36 extra hands played over about 2200. In other words, I'm playing a mere 1.6% more hands than I otherwise would have. This is very close to a negligible change.

However, an internal trend that I'm facing is that I now have to start holding myself back from raising. The most noticeable place that this happens is two off of the button, where I'm still trying to play as closely to my original hand range as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if extra hands are starting to creep up there, causing me to play more hands overall than I intended. After all, I started with a VPIP of 25, and according to my calculations I've only added 1.6 to my VPIP, yet my VPIP is a little above 30. It could be nothing more than variance over a mere 2000 hands, but I suspect it's not. I won't know until I've reached about 5000 hands and can compare the position-by-position numbers.