[MikeBandy]

Now I don’t think my psychological advice was correct. It didn’t occur to me that winning a game could be equated with earning money on a boring job.

Actually, I love Stud8. A short time ago, I played quite loosely on third street. If I could take a card off cheaply, I’d sometimes call with 842 rainbow. Same with any three flush if there were no more than two of the suit showing. [Ray Zee ranked a baby pair with an ace, and a baby pair with a low card as better hands than these. However, I never understood why anyone would play those hands.]

Anyway, on November 26, I read a post by Benwood in which he advocated playing hands that had both high and low potential. I took that to heart, and tightened up considerably. I also restudied Ray Zee’s Stud8 book. I’ve been playing a lot of Stud8 since then. I don’t have a big enough sample to know whether I’m winning more, but I’m enjoying it much more than when I was playing loosely. To each his own, I guess.