a few rookie type questions

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?

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

pezjb said:

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.

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

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

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.