10-19-2005, 11:38 PM
<bitch>
I'm in the middle of a horrid cold-deck streak. When I do get good hole cards, the flop invariably contains the worst possible cards for me. At one point my AA, KK and QQ were all cracked within two orbits. Down only about 50 BB total, but on Absolute and Stars it's like a death of a thousand cuts. I had to go play at Party for a while just to remember what PF limping and four-handed flops were.
</bitch>
This particular table was typical Absolute: raise from any position and you have a 50-50 chance of getting the blinds; blind-stealing battles are about the only excitement. Villain is 16.5/6.5/3.4 - when he commits to playing some cards, he's a bulldog.
Absolute 1/2 (9-handed), converter no workee
Preflop: Hero is Button with A/images/graemlins/club.gif 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif
6 folds (this IS Absolute, after all), Hero raises, 1 fold, BB calls
Flop: (4.5 SB) 10/images/graemlins/club.gif 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif 2/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB raises, Hero...?
I'm in the middle of a horrid cold-deck streak. When I do get good hole cards, the flop invariably contains the worst possible cards for me. At one point my AA, KK and QQ were all cracked within two orbits. Down only about 50 BB total, but on Absolute and Stars it's like a death of a thousand cuts. I had to go play at Party for a while just to remember what PF limping and four-handed flops were.
</bitch>
This particular table was typical Absolute: raise from any position and you have a 50-50 chance of getting the blinds; blind-stealing battles are about the only excitement. Villain is 16.5/6.5/3.4 - when he commits to playing some cards, he's a bulldog.
Absolute 1/2 (9-handed), converter no workee
Preflop: Hero is Button with A/images/graemlins/club.gif 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif
6 folds (this IS Absolute, after all), Hero raises, 1 fold, BB calls
Flop: (4.5 SB) 10/images/graemlins/club.gif 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif 2/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB raises, Hero...?