{"id":399,"date":"2004-07-17T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T00:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"lucky-not-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/17\/lucky-not-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky, not good"},"content":{"rendered":"

After coming in ninth ($2.50) in this morning’s MultiPoker freeroll, I fired up a 1\/2 table and played until the afternoon turbo freeroll. Man, I got killed on some hands in a big way. This table was a bit more loose-aggressive than the normal 1\/2 tables, and that magnified my losses. After busting out of the afternoon freeroll with pocket jacks (the caller had 9To and flopped a set), I went looking for a second table to try to average out the wins and losses.<\/p>\n

I found the best table in the world.<\/p>\n

I won 11 of the 94 hands I played, and split a few more. I won 4 of the 10 biggest pots, including the largest one of all: <\/p>\n

Party Poker 1\/2 Hold’em (9 handed) converter<\/a><\/p>\n

Preflop:<\/b> Hero is UTG+1 with Qc, Qh.
UTG calls, Hero raises<\/font>, MP1 calls, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO calls, Button folds, SB calls, BB calls, UTG calls.<\/p>\n

Flop:<\/b> (12 SB) 2s, Qs, 4h (6 players)<\/font>
SB bets<\/font>, BB folds, UTG folds, Hero raises<\/font>, MP1 calls, CO folds, SB 3-bets<\/font>, Hero caps<\/font>, MP1 calls, SB calls.<\/p>\n

Turn:<\/b> (12 BB) Th (3 players)<\/font>
SB bets<\/font>, Hero raises<\/font>, MP1 3-bets<\/font>, SB caps<\/font>, Hero calls, MP1 calls.<\/p>\n

River:<\/b> (24 BB) Ah (3 players)<\/font>
SB checks, Hero bets<\/font>, MP1 calls, SB calls.<\/p>\n

Final Pot:<\/b> 27 BB
Main Pot: 27 BB, between MP1, SB and Hero. > Pot won by Hero (27 BB).<\/font><\/p>\n

Hero shows Qc Qh (three of a kind, queens).
MP1 shows Ts Qd (two pair, queens and tens).
SB shows 2d 4d (two pair, fours and twos).
Outcome: Hero wins 27 BB.<\/div>\n

Over the course of an hour and half, I flopped a set on three hands, got Hiltons three times, rockets twice, cowboys once, and won each time. In the first 50 hands or so, I was getting a ridiculous 90+BB\/100 hands. By the time I left the table, this was down to 46.28BB\/100 hands. Wow. You’d think that after winning all that money, the table would stop calling my pre-flop raises, but they almost always threw out one more small bet to call. The only time they didn’t was when I had rockets on the button and the table folded around to me. Guess the SB and BB didn’t have anything worth defending.<\/p>\n

I ended the day up $66.75, for a win rate of 14.77BB\/100 hands.<\/p>\n

I still don’t know anything about table selection, but I suspect avoiding having multiple loose-aggressives at my table will probably help my win rate quite a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After coming in ninth ($2.50) in this morning’s MultiPoker freeroll, I fired up a 1\/2 table and played until the afternoon turbo freeroll. Man, I got killed on some hands in a big way. This table was a bit more loose-aggressive than the normal 1\/2 tables, and that magnified my losses. After busting out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-6r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}