Quick poker update
Since the NFL is in full swing you're seeing a lot of focus on football, but here's a quick update on the poker world.
Last month I pulled $1000 of pure sweet profit out of the bankroll to pay some bills, planning to redeposit it over the next two months under Party Poker's generous reload bonsus program. I generally hate playing limit poker, I'm a no-limit player more (and a tournament player even more so than a cash game specialist). I previously lost a good chunk of change at the 2-4 tables learning this lesson in the beginning of my poker career. And my poker ego was really looking forward to getting back to those 2-4 tables, under the +EV guise of bonus chasing, to try to make some headway towards turning those numbers back around.
So when this month Party was offering a 25% reload bonus instead of the regular 20%, so I dropped back in $500 of the $1000 I'd pulled. I loaded up two and sometimes three tables of the 2-4 games, complete with Poker Tracker and GameTime+.
I cleared the requisite hands in three sessions. And once again I lost my ass. To the point that I actually lost money beyond the bonus. -EV all the way.
I'm not really sure why. One of these nights, i'm going to sit down over this session and look for leaks. I think i'm playing decent small stakes poker, in accordance with the wisdom of Jones and Slansky / Miller. Using the best available limit rules, I rate out for these sessions as Tight Agressive or Tight Neutral/Unknown. But I'm leaking money like crazy.
So at least the bankroll grew a little this month with the redeposit, but I'm down farther than when I pulled out the grand, obviously. I'm looking forward to getting back to the $22/$33 SNGs and the MTTs. I'll give limit poker another try next month I think (when I redeposit the remaining $500), but I'm probably going to drop to 1-2 and see if I can't put up some winning sessions there. Maybe even (shudder) the $.50/$1 tables. But most importantly I'll keep my ego in check (thanks Iggy for the latest uberpost - i've stolen a bit he posted about ego + poker as Comment #1, check out GuinnessAndPoker for the rest).
Besides that, i played in the $10+1 MTT last week and cashed in the top thirty. That gives me multiple cashes at every level of Party MTT with over 1000 regular entrants from $5-$30. And speaking of tournament poker, this weekend I'm hosting a WSOP super-satellite. Our local Harrah's is hosting a WSOP Satellite at the end of the month, and we're going to be giving away one entrance to that Satellite for every 10 entrants to our Super-Satellite (already one seat guaranateed). Details on KCPoker.org if you're in the area and interested...
Friday night update:
Eight SNGs played tonight across $22 and $33 levels. 37.5% ITM with 48.33% ROI (two firsts and a third). Damn its good to be back here.
Last month I pulled $1000 of pure sweet profit out of the bankroll to pay some bills, planning to redeposit it over the next two months under Party Poker's generous reload bonsus program. I generally hate playing limit poker, I'm a no-limit player more (and a tournament player even more so than a cash game specialist). I previously lost a good chunk of change at the 2-4 tables learning this lesson in the beginning of my poker career. And my poker ego was really looking forward to getting back to those 2-4 tables, under the +EV guise of bonus chasing, to try to make some headway towards turning those numbers back around.
So when this month Party was offering a 25% reload bonus instead of the regular 20%, so I dropped back in $500 of the $1000 I'd pulled. I loaded up two and sometimes three tables of the 2-4 games, complete with Poker Tracker and GameTime+.
I cleared the requisite hands in three sessions. And once again I lost my ass. To the point that I actually lost money beyond the bonus. -EV all the way.
I'm not really sure why. One of these nights, i'm going to sit down over this session and look for leaks. I think i'm playing decent small stakes poker, in accordance with the wisdom of Jones and Slansky / Miller. Using the best available limit rules, I rate out for these sessions as Tight Agressive or Tight Neutral/Unknown. But I'm leaking money like crazy.
So at least the bankroll grew a little this month with the redeposit, but I'm down farther than when I pulled out the grand, obviously. I'm looking forward to getting back to the $22/$33 SNGs and the MTTs. I'll give limit poker another try next month I think (when I redeposit the remaining $500), but I'm probably going to drop to 1-2 and see if I can't put up some winning sessions there. Maybe even (shudder) the $.50/$1 tables. But most importantly I'll keep my ego in check (thanks Iggy for the latest uberpost - i've stolen a bit he posted about ego + poker as Comment #1, check out GuinnessAndPoker for the rest).
Besides that, i played in the $10+1 MTT last week and cashed in the top thirty. That gives me multiple cashes at every level of Party MTT with over 1000 regular entrants from $5-$30. And speaking of tournament poker, this weekend I'm hosting a WSOP super-satellite. Our local Harrah's is hosting a WSOP Satellite at the end of the month, and we're going to be giving away one entrance to that Satellite for every 10 entrants to our Super-Satellite (already one seat guaranateed). Details on KCPoker.org if you're in the area and interested...
Friday night update:
Eight SNGs played tonight across $22 and $33 levels. 37.5% ITM with 48.33% ROI (two firsts and a third). Damn its good to be back here.
posted by Performify at 3:07 PM
3 Comments:
From Iggy's latest uberpost:
If I had to sum up my life, and poker, I would use one word:
EGO
Before you play poker, you should leave your ego at the door. I've done way too many foolish things due to my ego, instead of not worrying what other people might think of me or my situation. Don't let that happen to you. Do what's right for you - after giving all avenues an honest look. We get in certain games because of our ego, we chase down a player who "drew-out" on us because of ego, we often don't see the truth because our ego does not want to see it. Hell, I post here because of ego - and it's probably time to rethink that too.
First, nice win in FFL on Yahoo this week. We'll get it on soon enough.
Regarding your lack of success in limit and success in NL: I am in the EXACT same boat and to say I'm frustrated would be an understatement. I am having roughly the same results as you in MTT tourney's and getting hammered in 1/2, 2/4 and 3/6. Why? I'm not sure it's ego, otherwise I would be performing poorly in both, right? But I will be introspective on it and consider it.
For experimental fun, I jumped on the 5/10 table at Party the other night, and had great success. Why? Maybe because I know the stakes are more than I should be playing for, I play more tightly.
I just bought PokerTracker, maybe that will shed some light on trends and/or patterns I have in Limit.
You might be playing too tight. In those loose low limit party games I think playing semi-loose-aggressive-aggressive is the way to go.
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