GrinningBuddha
08-26-2003, 03:56 AM
Day 40 – A good night
Poker is a the most enjoyable form of masochism that I know of. When the cards are falling for you, you wonder why you do anything but play poker. When the cards turn their backs on you, you wonder why you ever even took up the game. Or alternatively, you wonder why your opponents ever took up the game given the way they play. Gluttons for punishment are we.
It was a good night tonight. I played 3 hours and took home not only a $51.25 win from the .50/1.00 tables, but also scored a $5 Sit n Go win as well, for a net $70.25 gain.
My wife has recently started playing, and like Felicia Lee, she enjoys the Sit n Go action primarily, with ring games filling out her schedule. I decided to try my hand at one, since I haven’t had a chance to since I started at Party. AQ and AJ came through for me in a big way, both making broadway to put me over the top. I bided my time until we were down to two, and turned on the aggression. Luckily my opponent was quite passive and enjoyed paying off my marginal hands, allowing me to climb back from about a 2:1 chip deficit. Very satisfying.
At about the same time, my ring game hands heated up as well, and what had been a 15 BB loss turned into a big win as my big hands held up. When you make quads out of the big blind with J4o, you know you’ve got something going for you. /images/graemlins/cool.gif
So now I find myself with 133 BB for 1-2, and I aim to follow through on my plan of moving up by trading in one of my .50/1.00 tables for a 1-2 table next session. In my limited exposure to the 1-2 tables, they seem to play slightly tighter than the .50/1.00 tables, but still without flair or real poker sense. Hopefully this time it won’t be quite as streaky. :P
As it’s late and I don’t have access to my Poker Tracker demo on this computer, I’ll follow up this post with some discoveries I’ve made after 1000 hands of micro-limit poker. Granted, there will lots of statistical anomalies with such a small sample size, but it’ll be worth examining in any event. I’ll be getting a full copy of Poker Tracker soon.
Onward and upward we go…
Poker is a the most enjoyable form of masochism that I know of. When the cards are falling for you, you wonder why you do anything but play poker. When the cards turn their backs on you, you wonder why you ever even took up the game. Or alternatively, you wonder why your opponents ever took up the game given the way they play. Gluttons for punishment are we.
It was a good night tonight. I played 3 hours and took home not only a $51.25 win from the .50/1.00 tables, but also scored a $5 Sit n Go win as well, for a net $70.25 gain.
My wife has recently started playing, and like Felicia Lee, she enjoys the Sit n Go action primarily, with ring games filling out her schedule. I decided to try my hand at one, since I haven’t had a chance to since I started at Party. AQ and AJ came through for me in a big way, both making broadway to put me over the top. I bided my time until we were down to two, and turned on the aggression. Luckily my opponent was quite passive and enjoyed paying off my marginal hands, allowing me to climb back from about a 2:1 chip deficit. Very satisfying.
At about the same time, my ring game hands heated up as well, and what had been a 15 BB loss turned into a big win as my big hands held up. When you make quads out of the big blind with J4o, you know you’ve got something going for you. /images/graemlins/cool.gif
So now I find myself with 133 BB for 1-2, and I aim to follow through on my plan of moving up by trading in one of my .50/1.00 tables for a 1-2 table next session. In my limited exposure to the 1-2 tables, they seem to play slightly tighter than the .50/1.00 tables, but still without flair or real poker sense. Hopefully this time it won’t be quite as streaky. :P
As it’s late and I don’t have access to my Poker Tracker demo on this computer, I’ll follow up this post with some discoveries I’ve made after 1000 hands of micro-limit poker. Granted, there will lots of statistical anomalies with such a small sample size, but it’ll be worth examining in any event. I’ll be getting a full copy of Poker Tracker soon.
Onward and upward we go…