a few rookie type questions

[young_chucho]

this seems like the right place to find the
answer to my questions so i guess i'll
start with my first question.
what does it mean to protect your blind?

 

[robwhufc]

Your Blind is a forced bet you have to make - BB = Big Blind, SB = Small Blind (half the big bet). Protecting your blind is simply not folding when someone raises you pre-flop, but whether it's the right thing to do is another matter (generally players tend to lose money playing from the blinds, so it's simply a matter of losing as little as possible).

 

[bubbasbestbabe]

It also means that if you are the SB and it is folded to you, you raise it so that the BB doesn't get to look at the cards for free.

 

[young_chucho]

A few other questions came to mind
1.what is a c-bet?
2.what does bb/100 mean?
3.how does ROI work?

 

[pezjb]

1. CBet is a continuation bet. When you raise preflop, after the flop hits, to bet whether you hit it or not is a continuation bet.

2. BB/100 is either big bets per 100 hands or big blinds per 100 hands. People keep this statistic to see how much they make per x hands.

3. ROI, is rate of income. It is based on how much buy in for, how often, and how often you win. Let someone else explain this in more details since I am not too familiar.

 

[diamond_06_06]

Opps, I am not sure myself about ROI, but the other times I have seen this I assumed it was Return On Investment (i.e. Your win amount compared to your initial outlay). Am feeling a little sheepish cause this is probably wrong.

 

[stormswa]

3. ROI, is rate of income. It is based on how much buy in for, how often, and how often you win. Let someone else explain this in more details since I am not too familiar.

it means return of investment and I will get you the meaning now.

 

[Jack Daniels]

And to calculate your ROI, the formula is simple:

Total Profit / Investment*100 = ROI %
(Note that Total Profit = Total Winnings - Investment...do not skip this, ROI is based on Total Profit, not total winnings.)

So for a tournament with a buy-in of $11.00 and say you win $45. Your Total Profit = $45 - $11 = $34. Your ROI = $34/$11 = 3.0909 * 100 = 309.09%


Or, same calculation in a single formula is: (Winnings - Buyins) / Buy-ins * 100

 

[diamond_06_06]

Thanks JD,

What is normally an average ROI, a good ROI and one that a solid poker player should realistically be looking to work towards. I would be interested to see what kind of ROI's the people around here have.