stripsqueez
07-16-2004, 08:00 AM
i'm now $5,500 in front of the cash cows earn and cruising
i've been thinking about burn-out - as you do when you put in around 5 hours of multi table internet poker a day - so far, and its only a couple of weeks it couldnt be easier and i dont expect dramatic change
i do vary what i do a lot - i play about 10 hours of live cards a week - about half bridge and the rest manilla or rummy - and i still wander through a large variety of other games
mostly i think being a serious bridge player for the last 15 years or so is the difference - a couple of times a year i will play a week long bridge event - you can play in a team of 6 players which means you get a couple of sessions off but i never choose to do so - that means i ordinarily play 8-9 hours of bridge a day - after a week of that i am a physical wreck but mentally sharp - its a funny contradiction - last time i got to the final of a big bridge event i slept about 4 hours a day and often forgot to eat - by the end i looked like death but felt generally ok and was playing better than when i started which is usually the case - go figure
lots of bridge players talk about the "wall" - there comes a point where you just become mentally unable to do it anymore - any sense of judgement disappears and you fumble about playing like a loser - a lot of years of observation tell me that those who hit the wall are usually technicians - ie players who rely on ruthless attention to detail - ultimately though i suspect any decent bridge player, technician or otherwise would regard the nature of playing internet poker for a living as easy compared to long stretches of bridge
lots of good hands this week - i really wanted to use a hand where i had 88 on the button and open raised in a 15/30 6 max game - the BB 3 bet and i thereafter called him down on a board something like Q 9 5 7 K to be shown 32o - i figure either no-one would believe me or someone would complain that it was a complete raffle (which of-course it largely is)
if you dont know the rules then read the first ever $20 if you guess right post - only posters from the short handed forum in the last week and its not neccesary to nominate suits to win
i get AhQd in the cutoff in a 10/20 6 max game - UTG limps and UTG+1 folds - i raise and both blinds and UTG call
flop is 3d 8h Qs - checked to me and i bet - SB folds - BB raises - UTG calls - i 3 bet - BB caps and UTG and i call
i digress to say that the BB and UTG are big chooks
the turn is Jh - the BB bets and UTG and i just call
river is 3h - the BB bets - UTG calls - i decide i should of raised the turn against this line up and raise - the BB folds and UTG calls
stripsqueez - chickenhawk
i've been thinking about burn-out - as you do when you put in around 5 hours of multi table internet poker a day - so far, and its only a couple of weeks it couldnt be easier and i dont expect dramatic change
i do vary what i do a lot - i play about 10 hours of live cards a week - about half bridge and the rest manilla or rummy - and i still wander through a large variety of other games
mostly i think being a serious bridge player for the last 15 years or so is the difference - a couple of times a year i will play a week long bridge event - you can play in a team of 6 players which means you get a couple of sessions off but i never choose to do so - that means i ordinarily play 8-9 hours of bridge a day - after a week of that i am a physical wreck but mentally sharp - its a funny contradiction - last time i got to the final of a big bridge event i slept about 4 hours a day and often forgot to eat - by the end i looked like death but felt generally ok and was playing better than when i started which is usually the case - go figure
lots of bridge players talk about the "wall" - there comes a point where you just become mentally unable to do it anymore - any sense of judgement disappears and you fumble about playing like a loser - a lot of years of observation tell me that those who hit the wall are usually technicians - ie players who rely on ruthless attention to detail - ultimately though i suspect any decent bridge player, technician or otherwise would regard the nature of playing internet poker for a living as easy compared to long stretches of bridge
lots of good hands this week - i really wanted to use a hand where i had 88 on the button and open raised in a 15/30 6 max game - the BB 3 bet and i thereafter called him down on a board something like Q 9 5 7 K to be shown 32o - i figure either no-one would believe me or someone would complain that it was a complete raffle (which of-course it largely is)
if you dont know the rules then read the first ever $20 if you guess right post - only posters from the short handed forum in the last week and its not neccesary to nominate suits to win
i get AhQd in the cutoff in a 10/20 6 max game - UTG limps and UTG+1 folds - i raise and both blinds and UTG call
flop is 3d 8h Qs - checked to me and i bet - SB folds - BB raises - UTG calls - i 3 bet - BB caps and UTG and i call
i digress to say that the BB and UTG are big chooks
the turn is Jh - the BB bets and UTG and i just call
river is 3h - the BB bets - UTG calls - i decide i should of raised the turn against this line up and raise - the BB folds and UTG calls
stripsqueez - chickenhawk