{"id":398,"date":"2004-07-18T20:52:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T03:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"when-winning-isnt-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/18\/when-winning-isnt-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"When winning isn&#8217;t good enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/lucky-not-good.html\">monster sessions<\/a> is that perfectly respectable ones lose their luster. I know that 7.09BB\/100 hands is a good win rate, yet ending up only $32.75 after 3.25 hours of game time somehow feels inadequate. It&#8217;s not just the money: part of the reason for this feeling is that a lot of my big wins was the result of getting some lucky turn and\/or river cards or playing against really really bad players who will call to the showdown or try to bluff with nothing. In the monster session, I usually had my opponents beat from the flop or before the flop. I had a feeling that I was getting and playing the right cards, and got rewarded for it. I guess ultimately I want to win the money and know that I <em>deserved<\/em> it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with having monster sessions is that perfectly respectable ones lose their luster. I know that 7.09BB\/100 hands is a good win rate, yet ending up only $32.75 after 3.25 hours of game time somehow feels inadequate. It&#8217;s not just the money: part of the reason for this feeling is that a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-6q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}