{"id":1127,"date":"2005-04-18T22:54:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T05:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2005-04-18T22:54:37","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T05:54:37","slug":"scotty-i-only-go-in-with-the-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/18\/scotty-i-only-go-in-with-the-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotty, I only go in with the nuts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Shout out to FullTilter ScottMc<\/a>, who apparently gains insight into my play from this here blog.<\/p>\n

1AM Update<\/i><\/p>\n

So I decided to mix it up a little and try some more limit hold’em on Full Tilt Poker<\/a>, inspired in part by Absinthe’s<\/a> killing session the other day playing 2\/4 and 3\/6 on Party’s BBJ tables and Pauly’s<\/a> good results at FTP’s 3\/6 tables.<\/p>\n

I guess it’s something like, “Hey, if those guys can do it, why can’t I?”<\/p>\n

But I think I was missing a crucial piece of the argument here; those guys are winning poker players, while I’m just a break-even, thank-God-for-reload-bonuses, small-stakes player.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I loaded up two 2\/4 tables and was patiently folding my trash hands when ScottMc outted me as a blogger. There’s always something a little disconcerting when that happens. Suddenly I feel expected to raise hands like 72o out of position and overplay them when I hit bottom pair and the baby flush draw. Especially when you find out you’re sitting at a table with two bloggers who will appreciate your starting hand selection. <\/p>\n

I’ll be honest. I don’t like playing the hammer at the NLHE tables because it seems like a cop-out to just raise big and put the pressure on. I mean, sure, that’s an important lesson about NL–your cards don’t matter in certain situations against certain opponents. But man, if you can pull off a successful hammer bluff in low-limit limit hold’em, you’re a god.<\/p>\n

Anyway, my love affair with FTP<\/a> continues. +28BB for the night, for a win rate of 7BB\/table-hour, I think. After 25 days of play on FullTilt, I’ve almost tripled my buy-in (including $180 of bonus money) and have had only three and a half negative tallies during that time. For me, this is a big deal.<\/p>\n

So today’s lesson for my fellow break-even, thank-God-for-reload-bonuses, small-stakes players is to swing on over to Full Tilt<\/a> and give it a try.<\/p>\n

Hey, if I can do it, why can’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shout out to FullTilter ScottMc, who apparently gains insight into my play from this here blog. 1AM Update So I decided to mix it up a little and try some more limit hold’em on Full Tilt Poker, inspired in part by Absinthe’s killing session the other day playing 2\/4 and 3\/6 on Party’s BBJ tables […]<\/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-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","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=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}