I lost $84.72 in 34.4 hours of play, at a rate of $2.46 an hour, or 4.16BB\/100 hands. Wow. That’s almost a quarter of my bankroll in one week. On top of that, I had withdrawn some cash from my Party account, leaving me with about 60% of my bankroll by week’s end. <\/p>\n
Well that called for desperate measures. I took all my money and opened a Multi account to get the 20% bonus. <\/p>\n
My first session at the .50\/1 table was awful. I moved on to the 1\/2 table and things were almost as bad. Just when I nearly used up my initial buy-in, things turned around and I ended up +$7 at that table and -$3 overall. <\/p>\n
I then decided to play 40 more hands to qualify for tomorrow morning’s freeroll and lost another -$7. The unfortunate thing about that session is that I folded to a $4 call on the turn after my opponents raised and re-raised with their nut straights. I should have called. I was holding two pair, the pot was paying slightly better than my odds of catching one of my eight outs on the river, and it was a huge pot. Fuck. The river would have given me a boat, beating the two straights and netting me half my buy-in. Bad poker play. But at least I’m registered for the tourney tomorrow, and I’m just a dozen hands away from making my bonus. It’ll be good to start the week up.<\/p>\n
As for the difference between the .50\/1 tables and the 1\/2 tables, I can’t say I notice much difference yet. The swings are bigger, but it seems like the 1\/2 players respect strong bets\/raises\/check-raises more, even if they’re every bit as likely to play any two cards as at the lower limit. I’ll share more if anything occurs to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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