{"id":1024,"date":"2004-12-21T02:46:05","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T09:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2004-12-21T02:46:05","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T09:46:05","slug":"one-down-one-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/21\/one-down-one-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"One down, one to go"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleared the Party 20% bonus and netted a whole $29! That’s with the $200 bonus, mind you. Oh, man. <\/p>\n

Posted some heavy losses at the 2\/4 BBJ tables. High -EV. I guess when you have a lottery-type deal attached to those tables, it tends to attract the worst of the gamboolers. I may be wrong, but it seems like you have to be a fish, a maniac, or a rock in order to post profits on those tables. Either that, or catch the variance upswing when your bankroll allows.
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\nOne of the most successful players I saw at these tables was a maniac who raised virtually every pot. He’d sometimes have cards, sometimes not. Sometimes got lucky, sometimes not. But he owned<\/em> that table. He was very good at playing the players. After a while, he never raised if I limped, but raised when I was a blind. Aggression from fellow maniacs was met with aggression in kind, but aggression from me or the fish usually meant a fold, or a call and a fold on the next street. He’d also fold on the river a lot after getting raised. I think he knew damn well what he was doing. See The Cards Speak<\/a> and Poker Nerd<\/a> for more on the virtues of being a maniac.<\/p>\n

I did have a great winning session at a 2\/4 non-BBJ table today: +22BB. That and some other small wins made my 2\/4 losses equivalent to a 20BB buy-in. I’ve done worse, but I really should be more careful with table selection. My game’s not currently equipped for handling skilled mania, though I’ve found that the rules of 6-max apply when faced with a maniac in full-ring: catch a piece of the flop, push back on the turn (hopefully improve there, too), and see what happens. The less-skilled of the maniacs will crumple and fold. High variance, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

And so we come to NL. Down a little over a buy-in from my NL play, but that’s due largely in part to the 4 buy-in losing session a couple nights back<\/a>. I don’t think we need to go over that<\/em> again.<\/p>\n

Speaking of NL, I was down a few cents from my Party deposit earlier tonight after a thoroughly -EV session of Omaha 8, so I decided to play some NL. ‘Cause I couldn’t cash out of Party with less money than I deposited. Oh yes. I am so results-oriented. <\/p>\n

Party dropped me on a NL table with the biggest NL maniac ever. I think he set the table on tilt. After I saw him suck out aces on the turn against someone else’s queens, I knew that if I were ever ahead, I’d have to push all my chips in. So I did. Three times. The first time I doubled up (QQ vs. Q5?!). The second time I was pushing my two pair (KJ) against a straight (KQJT9) and lost everything (though truth be told, I tried to slowplay the flop and got spanked by giving away the free turn card). The third time he doubled me up again and I won what was previously in the pot (AAJJ vs QQJJ). The net result was that I was down slightly for the evening. Then he left before he could double me up a third time. Crap. <\/p>\n

Luckily I later caught a 5-outer against two pair (I thought this other loose aggressive player simply had a worse kicker and put him all in… oops). Then I flopped a straight and made an underbet in late position. One of the blinds raised 8x my bet. It was folded to me and I reraised to put him all in. When the 3-flush appeared on the turn I was worried, but I was good: he risked all his chips on top pair, deuce kicker. Oh the humanity.<\/p>\n

So I don’t know. This whole Party bonus whoring experience has been just a series of -EV sessions. I’ll still play with the damn bloggers, but be a little more careful about drinking and pushing. And I’ll stay away from the goddamn BBJ tables. But now that I’m moving on to Empire for their<\/em> reload bonus, that evilness won’t be able to tempt me. I still think I suck at limit. And in NL I happen to catch some good cards and flops and make ’em work for me. There’s probably only one or two bluffs per session, and I only catch someone out on a bluff a couple times per session, so how good am I really?<\/p>\n

I should change my Empire name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cleared the Party 20% bonus and netted a whole $29! That’s with the $200 bonus, mind you. Oh, man. Posted some heavy losses at the 2\/4 BBJ tables. High -EV. I guess when you have a lottery-type deal attached to those tables, it tends to attract the worst of the gamboolers. I may be wrong, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-gw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}