Tourneys N Table talk
Thanks for the comment Garyc.I tried and failed to reset my Royal Vegas password last night but I'll get it sorted tonight and we will get this tourney on!
Oh and no worries Veneno I'll leave the high stakes nl stuff to Sir Waffle!
Looks like the prey in the bounty hunt wont be playing but the main plan of getting a few UK/US bloggers together is still good. Juice and The Edge suggested this Sunday which would be fine by me.A $5 sng seems the best option.More for fun and bragging rights than any money.
Anytime Sunday should be ok with me.Our clocks go back an hour at 2am this Sunday so we'll need to remember that when setting the time.Any preferences?
I'll need to sharpen up though.I played a 50c nl tourney with Juice last night and assumed it would be a loose all in kind of game and bombed out first after my AQ hit an A on the flop and I called an all in.Thought I may be behind to 2 pair but a set of fours saw me off.I'd expected a quick all in type game but with pride at stake it took a lot longer than I expected.
Maybe I lost a bit of my enthusisiam when I spotted a .15-.30 6 max nl table with a $12 average pot and 67% seeing the flop.Bought in for $30 and soon worked it up to $40.How could anyone lose long term with those table stats? A table orbit costs 45c.If you went 20 orbits of the table and never played a hand it would cost $9. Ok variance can kick in but logic says that you will get the best hand on average once every 6 hands so even allowing for variance and swings of luck a patient player must be able to make money and that doesn't take into account making any fancy moves.No need to be any good.Just play patient ABC poker.
All was going well until Juice joined the chat and started on about my blog and how an "nl specialist" bombed out the wee tourney we had played.Now there's no way anyone at the levels I play at is a specialist let alone me but I don't want the competition at my table to know anything about me.That was part of the reason I chose Zagga as a username at most sites.Anagram of Gazza ( my nickname and fav footballer) but also annonymous.I don't even include my birthdate or any info on my Pokerroom profile.Information is power in poker and I aint giving any free!
Weird that I'm happy to chat away at the .25 limit table but to me thats just a bit of fun and the cards and luck seem to play a bigger part than nl.( Probably because I don't know what I'm doing!)
When I go to nl and my stack could be on the line at anytime I need to be in my poker zone and concentrating on the table and players.That's not to say I wont be happy to chat at all but preferably not about poker skills or blogs! I would love to be able to read any blog my opponents write.What an insight that would be.Roll on Sunday!
Thats why I was talking down your tourney win the other night Juice.I didn't want the table we were at to get any idea of the level of your play.
Even Mr Edge writing about PO watching the game made me wince.Maybe they wouldn't know what PO ( poker office) is but I wouldn't want any of the enemy knowing any info about any tools I use to help my game.
Maybe I'm just paranoid!
Labrokes bankroll is at $266 and Mark will be up tonight for our weekly Playstation fest so may not get any poker played.I did play the laddys raked hand freeroll last night and may try and squeeze that in tonight if I've qualified.
Please leave me a comment if you're up for the private sng at Royal Vegas.Mr Edge has a link on his site which pays a $10 bonus just for signing up so that would cover the entry fee.All bloggers and any readers ( are there any?!lol) welcome.Lets make it happen..
posted by Littleacornman @ 1:51 pm
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You know its strange what you say about limit poker. There is luck involved but it is still a game of skill. You can stop people calling but you play the probabilities and that what allows you to win. Its the same principles as NL. Manipulation of pot odds through betting. You just have to think about how you do it.
The thing about NL is I know its not my primary poker game and so the pressure is off me when i play. Nevertheless im a proud guy and my pride kicks in. i want to test my skills if i enter a tournement. I know my tournement win wasnt for massive stakes but the fact that quite a few players were at the table who fancied themselves a bit. It was very satisfying. When some people at the table think your a carthouse and you show your skills to send them home out of the placing that has to be good.
Sorry if i was tapping at the table last night. I just have high expectations when i see the acorn man sit at the table!!and going after the wooden spoon with such enthusiasm was particularly impressive!
Incidentally well done on that 7-2 off play last night. Yo mamma would be proud.
I don't doubt limit is a game of skill but the edges seem so small it must be hard to make it pay at low levels.( as you do!)
Funny what you say about the pressure being off.Thats how I feel in limit.
I don't worry about what people think at the tables only about how I can extract the most money from them.
No probs about the table tapping.I was pleased to see you there Juice but just don't tell 'em anything.
I'm going to hold a wooden spoon auction soon.They're piling up.I reckon your due the next one though.
My momma would have been proud of my hammer play.She plays loads of play money poker.Thought about asking her to play in the tourney but she doesn't know I blog and not sure I want to go down that road!
We call it PO at the table to disguise its origin. I usually refer to it as a friend who watches over my shoulder. So hopefully very few of the players will know what we're on about.
J insists on me blanking out his name. And Rosie_m got angry when I put her profile on my forum. However, I'm willing to hide peoples' indentities if they ask nicely.
You probably noticed, though, that we like to sing praises about the joys of Texas Calculatem. That's because it only works if you apply our secret strategy!!!!
Maybe we should start referring to him as Poe to disguise it further. So people dont think its an acronym.
Wear a false beard when playing.That should do the trick...
What is this rumbling about a US/UK Blogger match? Well, if it is happening, sign me up! Shoot me an email (brodybanky@aol.com) if you have any set dates and sites in mind. I'll also keep an eye on your blog.
Yes well the prey is hiding. Master or no master. It seems the cajones are not in his current pants.
I thought we could ryder cup stylie do a Us/UK match!
now that would be fun!
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