First hand amazing – I get AA and four of us go all-in! My bullets hold up (I was 61% favourite fortunately), and I win a $23 pot (yeah, shame they were all small stacks).
Then over the next 300 hands I take a serious nosedive and end up $33 down. Unbelievable. I think I must have had some kind of aneurysm – Several times I called a big river reraise with TPTK, which all obviously lost to sets, straights etc. Several of them I even thought ‘this is obviously a set’, and still like a dumb fuck I called them down and handed over my money. What’s the point of getting better at reading hands when I don’t listen to myself!
I then went on wtf couldn’t care less tilt and called a bunch more TPTK’s and lost a few more stacks. Really, really, really bad!
Lol it’s the bet. The pressure and the desire to get the maximum return. To fall across the line in a blaze of glory. Its fucked me up and now kicked you in the nads too. You’re prolly only $30 up now. The game is afoot watson!
After this is over let us never talk of it again! not even in jest
it’s $53 – $70 with rakeback (rb’s such a lifesaver!).
It’s definitely because I tried to push things along too much – after the first hand giving me a $13 start I went on a little microdownswing as I poked & prodded my opponents only to find out they were calling stations (the worst was a guy who insisted on minbetting every street!). After about 100 hands I’d lost half that headstart and was getting frustrated that it was going to carry on that way.
What I should have done was change tables. What I did do was start calling down big raises light in order to get a quick big win. Most were things like AQ on a Q high board calling a river shove – there was a possibility that I was good, but TBH I was deluding myself.
Small hand, small pot – that would be a useful SN I reckon…
you both expect too much too soon. if you’re beating this game for 5ptbb/100(which is too optimistic in the long run but w/e), thats 1$/100, $200=20000 hands of variance-free poker. now go to http://www.pokervariancesimulator.fr/ and enter $/100=1, sd($/100)=6 (i’m too conservative here) and look at 20k hands graphs..don’t expect your contest to finish soon..
OMG – according to that graph, my win rate’s going to go off the top of the friggin screen!!!!
Unless I run bad
Srsly I think it will. After 3000 hands I’m beating their top line by loads. Easy game.
Should have it done by sunday lunch time… Except I’ve some work to do, and tennis if it gets above freezing, and there’ll probably be something on tv…
well, close to their top line…
tl;dr
btw don’t forget: the first to bust his entire roll gets tree-fiddy from me
hmmm, maybe that’s more achievable. Mustn’t set the bar too high & all that…