An Actual Post Regarding Poker
I wrote this post up in much greater detail earlier, but somehow my text editor ate it so you get the abridged version.
I started playing online poker again when PP sent me an invite for a $40 bonus if I play 400 hands in two weeks. This is not as bad as it sounds (roughly 28 hands/day). But of course I wait until I have 8 days left to start, so I am now at 50/hands per day. I usually play between 60-100 hands when I play so this too is not really a big deal. I started with my usually ultra-low-skirt-wearing limit poker of $.50/$1 games to clear my bonus, but decide to dabble in the $1/$2 games about half way through my bonus. Hey - the air up here is cleaner, not so many bottom feeders and the payoffs are bigger for the dumb ass the plays A9os against my pocket K's. Me likey. So I cleared my bonus and made an additional ~$150 to boot. :)
So Then I go on a much needed vacation for a week of fun and sun at Myrtle beach with my horde of sponge's and the sponge-in-law's. I was completely unplugged for the entire week including the Blackberry (ONLY because I forgot my charger). I had no idea how much I needed that - Damn I feel good.
Anyway, after we got back I was jonsing for some poker so I hopped online and decided to up the stakes with my new found winnings and moved to the $2/$4 limit tables. Wow. The folks on the $2/$4 play hand choices that are almost as bad as the $1/$2 only more passively. That means they will fold more often on the turn at this level instead of paying the $4 - better for my draw bluffs, less suck-outs on the river.
My immediate reaction to this new found income source is "why didn't I do this earlier?". But careful reflection and a healthy combing over of my stats via Poker Tracker tells me that I wasn't ready. Had I moved up earlier I would have been the one of the previously mention A9os suckers playing a 4 card flush draw to the river and losing thine arse on a nightly basis and probably end up blaming the other players and/or PP for being rigged. My game has evolved a bit and in turn so has my level of play. I am not saying I am ready for the $15/$30 tables and that I am better than everyone else I am playing against, not by any means. But it is good to finally see some improvement in MY game after 1.5 years of play.
To summarize I started off with $100 deposit in March that took me about 3 months to get it up to $300 playing (including the $40 bonus) $.50/$1 and $1/$2. In the past 3 days I have been playing $2/$4 and my balance is not over $500. I don't think I will be going back down anytime soon.
But alas, poker is much like baseball in that you have to control your emotions. You can let the high's get to high and you can't let the low's get too low. Roll with the punches and all that.
I started playing online poker again when PP sent me an invite for a $40 bonus if I play 400 hands in two weeks. This is not as bad as it sounds (roughly 28 hands/day). But of course I wait until I have 8 days left to start, so I am now at 50/hands per day. I usually play between 60-100 hands when I play so this too is not really a big deal. I started with my usually ultra-low-skirt-wearing limit poker of $.50/$1 games to clear my bonus, but decide to dabble in the $1/$2 games about half way through my bonus. Hey - the air up here is cleaner, not so many bottom feeders and the payoffs are bigger for the dumb ass the plays A9os against my pocket K's. Me likey. So I cleared my bonus and made an additional ~$150 to boot. :)
So Then I go on a much needed vacation for a week of fun and sun at Myrtle beach with my horde of sponge's and the sponge-in-law's. I was completely unplugged for the entire week including the Blackberry (ONLY because I forgot my charger). I had no idea how much I needed that - Damn I feel good.
Anyway, after we got back I was jonsing for some poker so I hopped online and decided to up the stakes with my new found winnings and moved to the $2/$4 limit tables. Wow. The folks on the $2/$4 play hand choices that are almost as bad as the $1/$2 only more passively. That means they will fold more often on the turn at this level instead of paying the $4 - better for my draw bluffs, less suck-outs on the river.
My immediate reaction to this new found income source is "why didn't I do this earlier?". But careful reflection and a healthy combing over of my stats via Poker Tracker tells me that I wasn't ready. Had I moved up earlier I would have been the one of the previously mention A9os suckers playing a 4 card flush draw to the river and losing thine arse on a nightly basis and probably end up blaming the other players and/or PP for being rigged. My game has evolved a bit and in turn so has my level of play. I am not saying I am ready for the $15/$30 tables and that I am better than everyone else I am playing against, not by any means. But it is good to finally see some improvement in MY game after 1.5 years of play.
To summarize I started off with $100 deposit in March that took me about 3 months to get it up to $300 playing (including the $40 bonus) $.50/$1 and $1/$2. In the past 3 days I have been playing $2/$4 and my balance is not over $500. I don't think I will be going back down anytime soon.
But alas, poker is much like baseball in that you have to control your emotions. You can let the high's get to high and you can't let the low's get too low. Roll with the punches and all that.
posted by Sponge at 11:43 AM
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