Losing all
01-22-2004, 01:22 AM
I had the day off so I decided to go for this playing three .50/1.'s.
the bad- Playing three .5/1.'s sucks! especially on one screen(my monitor/system isn't set up for poker, so that makes it even worse.) also I thought I had a cake walk to top 60 as I was bouncing around between 58-62 after 2 or 3 hours, but this game is just too slow to even think about keeping up with the (over 60) shorthanded players going for it. I made a last ditch effort at 10:30(10 hands behind 60th) by dumping 2 of my slow games and moving to pl25, but they werent really moving either, and 1 dried up soon after I got there costing me a few more hands in switch time. One other thing, I didn't take any breaks at all, so every piss or drink was a challenge.
the good- Once I figured out the $40 wasn't gonna happen I knew I could coast into the $20 by 11pm. I played 1 table for a little while and noticed I wasn't sliding much, so I quit early. I didn't expect to win much with my speed chess type setup, but I hit a few big hands early, and ran into some of the worst play I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot for party .50/1. +185BB's! I've had good runs before, but I couldn't even imagine that result in any semi-serious game.
bottom line, I think it's worth the work for any other LL grinders out there, but it is work.
the bad- Playing three .5/1.'s sucks! especially on one screen(my monitor/system isn't set up for poker, so that makes it even worse.) also I thought I had a cake walk to top 60 as I was bouncing around between 58-62 after 2 or 3 hours, but this game is just too slow to even think about keeping up with the (over 60) shorthanded players going for it. I made a last ditch effort at 10:30(10 hands behind 60th) by dumping 2 of my slow games and moving to pl25, but they werent really moving either, and 1 dried up soon after I got there costing me a few more hands in switch time. One other thing, I didn't take any breaks at all, so every piss or drink was a challenge.
the good- Once I figured out the $40 wasn't gonna happen I knew I could coast into the $20 by 11pm. I played 1 table for a little while and noticed I wasn't sliding much, so I quit early. I didn't expect to win much with my speed chess type setup, but I hit a few big hands early, and ran into some of the worst play I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot for party .50/1. +185BB's! I've had good runs before, but I couldn't even imagine that result in any semi-serious game.
bottom line, I think it's worth the work for any other LL grinders out there, but it is work.