My Friday Rant

[sy_or_bust]

Great post. Very similar to SS2's Fox > Hedgehog analogy (the former being a strong or merely competent multi-game player and the latter a one-game specialist). I don't think this applies so much to 2/4 LHE or even 3/6 when the games are typically very good, but certainly 5/10 and higher it can be very important. There seems to be a plateau at this level of play which is difficult to surmount, especially for multi-tabling regulars. I've worked at it for some time now and still haven't comfortably reached mid-stakes.

Depending on the games available, I bounce from Limit HE and Omaha/8, 6-max and full, between 3/6 and 10/20.

[Evan]

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My hands were shaking and it felt freaking awesome.

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I found the old AIM log...


<font color="blue">sfer:</font> KTs
<font color="red">Evan:</font> you gonna start playing this more?
<font color="red">Evan:</font> nice
<font color="red">Evan:</font> rut roh
<font color="red">Evan:</font> cold calling is bad
<font color="blue">sfer:</font> !!
<font color="red">Evan:</font> spades?
<font color="red">Evan:</font>
<font color="blue">sfer:</font> Yeah
<font color="red">Evan:</font> CAP!!!
<font color="red">Evan:</font> ooo
<font color="blue">sfer:</font> I have to bet
<font color="blue">sfer:</font> WOOT!
<font color="red">Evan:</font> of course
<font color="red">Evan:</font> that was a happy "ooo"
<font color="blue">sfer:</font> Last orbit!
<font color="blue">sfer:</font> 8-)
<font color="red">Evan:</font> why?
<font color="blue">sfer:</font> My hands are shaking
<font color="blue">sfer:</font> No joke
<font color="red">Evan:</font> hahaha
<font color="red">Evan:</font> that's awesome
<font color="red">Evan:</font> how'd that cap on the flop feel?
<font color="blue">sfer:</font> Awesome

[axioma]

good post.

its something ive been doing myself for a while now, others here need to adopt the same attitude. playing in higher/lower limits because youve scouted out a good game is something that is EASY to do, far far easier than learning other games. but its something people rarely do.

[sfer]

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I started playing 15/30 in December because one of my buddies was playing--taking a shot, I guess. Here we are, 28 hands later, I've never looked back

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fyp

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If I don't play another hand I'm getting almost $400 in rakeback for July. That's gotta be some sort of record.

[Entity]

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I started playing 15/30 in December because one of my buddies was playing--taking a shot, I guess. Here we are, 28 hands later, I've never looked back

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fyp

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If I don't play another hand I'm getting almost $400 in rakeback for July. That's gotta be some sort of record.

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You really don't play much, do you?

[J. Sawyer]

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Ha, I remember talking to you on AIM and sweating you one of the first times you played 15 (maybe the first time). You played that real big pot w/ KTs where you capped the flop with a flush draw. You ended up winning a big pot and then sat out at your big blind because you said, "My hands are shaking."

Not much of content to say. I agree with the post, I do the same thing, switiching between 5/10 and 10/20 when I can find good games.

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My hands were shaking and it felt freaking awesome. They were also shaking the first couple of hands of 40/80 I played but that might have been because Clark was on my left.

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my hands shook the first day i played 15/30 3rd hand in i pulled down a 30BB pot, thought I was having a seizure

[hicherbie]

good post.

and yeah, gw ent.

[colgin]

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Gary Carson, who is a bit of a pariah around these parts, wrote something along the lines of people consider themselves as having a game, like I'm a red chip hold 'em player, and that stops them from sitting in good games. If I remember correctly, he was talking about the need to play more than HE, but the same principle applies to the talk of various Party limits. I'll play between 5/10 and 20/40 on Party, and the deciding factors are how I feel (tired/rested, clear-headed/drunk) and how good the games are. I don't think you guys practice good game selection if you make blanket statements about the quality of games at a given limit. I started playing 15/30 in December because one of my buddies was playing--taking a shot, I guess. I never looked back. Find good games, play good games, take the occasional shot. Don't limit yourself because you heard 5/10 full is bad or whatever. People are wrong. Sometimes a bigger game is surprisingly good because it's Tuesday and 2 donkeys are sitting at 10/20 full. If you can spare 25-50 BBs, give it a shot.

Yeah, and congratulations to Entity.

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I agree. I have been focused on game selection for a while now and I definitely flit among different levels depending on the tpyes of factors you mentioned. That said, I expect I will be starting to take the occassional shot at higher levels (i.e., above $5/10) in the upcoming months.

[shant]

Nice post. I took my first shot at 15/30 last night. I think a good accessory for taking shots is TiltBlocker. That program is rad.

Also, I've been making posts about 10/20 trying to create a bad image of the game a la "5/10 full sucks don't play there" posts, but I'll stop doing that. People should move up.

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Also, I've been making posts about 10/20 trying to create a bad image of the game a la "5/10 full sucks don't play there" posts, but I'll stop doing that. People should move up.

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Hahahaha. You really had me going...