dogmeat
10-16-2004, 01:06 PM
26 weeks left. That's right, half a year. I've been saving $170 a week for 20 weeks now ($3400) and I'll be prepared for the first week of the WSOP 2005!
More importantly, how tough is it for you to go back to lower limits? Sixty years ago, Thomas Wolfe said "You can't go home again." Do you believe this is true? In my case, I think perhaps I do.
I signed up for the Poker Now site, enticed by the $200 that was available for 1000 raked hands. Knowing that on Party sites the $2/$4 and $3/$6 games often have hands with no rake, I played four tables of $1/$2, where almost every hand gets raked. In less than six hours I got 1150 raked hands. I got my $200 (plus $25 maybe) and a free shirt and book. Good for me.
To start play, I deposited the required $500 and jumped into the games. When I had the raked hands, I quit. My profit for six hours of play? $3. And here, my friends, is the problem.
Not only did I only win $3 from actual play, but I went through a very similar period of play at Party clearing a bonus, and at the Crypto sites earlier this month. Combined, in almost 20 hours of play, I only won about $100. Usually this was with multiple tables. It is clear I don't play $1/$2 well anymore, if I ever did. The changes I have made while moving up, don't seem to work too well moving down. I'm not smart enough to know exactly what I have changed, and not quick enough to change back.
Does this also mean I have outgrown the Crypto sites (Intercasino, Will Hill etc.)? Perhaps. There are rarely any $2/$4 games and above that are 10-player games. I don't play short-handed very well. Anybody else find themselves in this spot? Perhaps I will only play NL at the Crypto's next month to get my bonus.
Hey, sorry for the rambling - y'all have a great week! See you at the WSOP in 2005.
Dogmeat /images/graemlins/spade.gif
More importantly, how tough is it for you to go back to lower limits? Sixty years ago, Thomas Wolfe said "You can't go home again." Do you believe this is true? In my case, I think perhaps I do.
I signed up for the Poker Now site, enticed by the $200 that was available for 1000 raked hands. Knowing that on Party sites the $2/$4 and $3/$6 games often have hands with no rake, I played four tables of $1/$2, where almost every hand gets raked. In less than six hours I got 1150 raked hands. I got my $200 (plus $25 maybe) and a free shirt and book. Good for me.
To start play, I deposited the required $500 and jumped into the games. When I had the raked hands, I quit. My profit for six hours of play? $3. And here, my friends, is the problem.
Not only did I only win $3 from actual play, but I went through a very similar period of play at Party clearing a bonus, and at the Crypto sites earlier this month. Combined, in almost 20 hours of play, I only won about $100. Usually this was with multiple tables. It is clear I don't play $1/$2 well anymore, if I ever did. The changes I have made while moving up, don't seem to work too well moving down. I'm not smart enough to know exactly what I have changed, and not quick enough to change back.
Does this also mean I have outgrown the Crypto sites (Intercasino, Will Hill etc.)? Perhaps. There are rarely any $2/$4 games and above that are 10-player games. I don't play short-handed very well. Anybody else find themselves in this spot? Perhaps I will only play NL at the Crypto's next month to get my bonus.
Hey, sorry for the rambling - y'all have a great week! See you at the WSOP in 2005.
Dogmeat /images/graemlins/spade.gif