Yesterday I played tennis against this guy who’s clueless about where he should stand on the court. After every serve he’ll charge at the net (obv trying for a serve & volley), but he did it regardless of how the serve went. A simple lob return then puts it in the vast space he’s left behind him. Or a drop shot return to the other side of the court makes him continue his charge all the way round in front of his partner, again leaving half the court unprotected.
While all this was going on I couldn’t help thinking about everything in a poker context. He was an overaggressive player who was mashing his pot button regardless of pot texture or my range. He didn’t adapt no matter how many times I exploited the same move, and towards the end of the game he was double faulting his serves out of tilt.
Kinda stupid, and probably a sign I’m thinking about poker too much. There was a thread on 2p2 about this with the best story about a guy who went to the optician and read an eye chart saying King, Queen, whenever there was a K or Q.
I’m thinking about moving to Cardiff, and a big factor in that decision was that there are three casinos for playing poker there (well, 2 and a poker room). It wasn’t the biggest reason (mainly I want to get back into rock climbing, plus take up something new like kitesurfing or sailing – Cambridge is too flat and nowhere near the sea), but it was definitely a factor. However online poker is going badly for me at the moment, and I’m starting to think that being able to play live is going to be a really bad thing for me – supposedly live play is easier, but at the same time the BR required is way bigger than what I’m used to. No big deal playing a game which is $0.10/$0.25, but the minimum for live games seems to be £1/£1 or £1/£2 – even if I shortstack with a £20 buyin, that’s more or less twice what I’m used do (and I don’t really want to shortstack). Tourney’s seem to be £16+£4, which perhaps isn’t so bad if I just play once a week maybe. Perhaps I’ll get lucky early on and win a decent starting live BR.
Anyway, if anyone’s played poker in Cardiff, let me know what it’s like…
Update: After Funkeefeesh’s advice of getting some volume in I’ve been plugging away today at the $10 husngs (more games played today than the whole of last month!). Not gaining much though;
The last guy I played kept doing this;
2 Players
$10.00+$0.50
Stacks:
Hero (1,420)
BB (1,580)
Blinds: 10/20
Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is SB 5
4
Hero raises to 60, BB raises to 900, Hero folds
Final Pot: 960
BB wins 960 (net +60)
Hero lost 60
How does that ever make sense?
16+4 – that’s disgusting rake lol! Good luck with the move if you go through with it
yeah, but I’m not that bothered if it equates to an entertaining evening (it’s not like I ever win donkaments).
I kinda pulled that number off the top of my head though – the grosvenor seems to run tournaments with no registration fee (is that the same as no rake? I assume it is), Les Croupiers is the one that’s like £15 (£4 reg), but is that 15+4 or 11+4? I can’t find any information on the Gala, but it looks like there’s cash games at least.
i heard small live donkaments/sngs have terrible structure, i.e. it becomes push-fold fest too soon.
here’s how you increase volume…not
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