Had the damnedest time catching cards and fish tonight at the pot limit tables. All the fish were cleaned out by other players while I folded my flopped nothings. It was probably a clear sign that I needed to change tables, but it was late, and I didn’t want to get up with a loss (i.e., I was fishing for a big win).

The three or four wins I did get were worth just a few dollars apiece, and I watched my stack slowly dwindling away until I found myself short stacked at a table full of tight people and a few big stacks. Finally I got a hand where big stack #2 bet the pot after pairing the same jack I paired. I had an ace kicker that I suspected was good and raised the pot. He called and then check-called my river push (25% of the pot). I outkicked him and managed to scrape by the night with a 26 cent profit. That’s a glorious win rate of .29BB/100 hands. At least I can still say that I’ve not had a losing night playing pot limit. Sheesh.

Here are the results:

    This week  Cumulative  Average
CR    -$3.00      +$4.90    +$0.61
EM    -$2.75      -$2.30    -$0.26
ER    +$8.50     +$13.15    +$1.64
JB    +$1.50      -$9.30    -$1.03
JC    +$0.00     +$16.75    +$1.86
Me    -$1.65     -$12.45    -$1.38
MT    -$2.60      -$2.60    -$2.60

MT joined us this week and changed the dynamic of the game (once again). MT’s an aggressive player who regularly wins at the casinos, so it’s always nice to have him shake things up a bit. The multi-way pots became really large as everyone started taking cues from MT, which meant that just winning a few choice pots did wonders for your stack. I was not involved in most of those pots, and I certainly never won any of them.

Guess who did win a few choice pots? That’s right. ER. I think she’s also adopted a slightly looser but more aggressive style of play. In fact, I witnessed quite a lot of betting from several players on open-ended straight or flush draws. Interesting.

JB also had a good run initially that got him a big stack early on. It got whittled down and then finally came back up a bit to allow him to finish in the black.

Toward the last half hour of play, CR tried his best to lose his chips, but still ended with some money left.

Good God it’s hot this week. Glasstrack suggested we play in the yard. That probably wouldn’t be such a bad idea if we had some lights out there.

This is one of those posts about linking to someone else’s blog, which is kinda silly when it comes to Poker Perspectives, since it’s not as though it’s not a known site. Anyway, what I like about what I’ve read so far on Maudie’s blog is that it’s all about her poker experiences, written from a personal point of view. It’s not just hand histories or PT stats–you know, the boring stuff I put on this blog to gloat or groan about my insignificant wins and losses. By contrast, her recaps are more narrative in style, and she throws in a dose of “Here’s what I thought” or “I felt like this.”

Anyway, just thought I’d throw that out there for that one person who may be coming here to read about poker–there’s really better stuff out there. Which is why it surprises me when I find the occasional link to this blog in a list of poker blogs. I guess what I can say about StudioGlyphic, however, is that we’ll cover a fair number of topics in proportions you may not find elsewhere. And nothing beats a well-mixed cocktail.

Hamlet has just accepted a challenge to face Laertes in a heads up no limit match:

Horatio doesn’t think much of Hamlet’s chances in the match; he’s the kind of poker player who believes in luck, gut feelings, and all of that crap. Hamlet, on the other hand, understands that over the long run he has +EV against Laertes. All he has to do is be ready when everything–the cards, the relative stack sizes, and the twitch above Laertes left temple–says now is the time to re-raise over the top.

“All in.”

Inspiration from The Cards Speak; text from Project Gutenberg.