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peterbirks) wrote2006-11-30 09:39 pm
peterbirks) wrote2006-11-30 09:39 pm
Maybe Tomorrow
A brief(ish) post, mainly because I have some other writing to do and I have told myself that I must do it tonight. And the ironing, and the hoovering, and putting out the rubbish. Because if you don't put out the rubbish at exactly the right time these days, everyone knows that you can go to jail for nine months, or something like that.
The final month's figures will make rather horrific reading, but one has to publish the bad with the good. On the plus side, I got back that last "bad" loss of $280, so things have been slightly on the mend. The new strategy in the Big Blind has had the odd effect of making me look forward to that particular hand on every circuit. On the downside, my major metagame fault -- assuming that other people are thinking like I am -- has made me want to be more cautious when raising from the cut off or the button. I must force myself to maintain my previous aggression there (in fact, I ought to be stepping it up, to something like 30% from the current 27%).
With the bonus worked off at Full Tilt, I can give the site a rest for a month (apart from the freeroll) and see what impact that has on the overall figures. It's good to leave sites for a while, because this can trigger marketing flags and special offers "to tempt you back".
I still haven't decided on things long-term. If the Blind-playing experiment works, then short-handed becomes a bit tempting. Alternatively I could just admit that my best talent is as a bonus whore, and carry on in that fashion ("stick to what you are good at"). Thirdly, I could bite the bullet and try NL, although this would be a big gamble that the games would remain OK, and working against it is that I don't really enjoy NL or PL. Mr Young, who nine months ago said that I was overrating the opposition and that I should just imagine them playing while masturbating to child porn on another screen, is now saying that he's quit NL online because there are too many good players.
That leaves PLO, which should still be good at the American-accepting sites because most PLO players from the US are absolutely fucking abysmal. Even I can see that. Or Razz, which I happen to find attractive as a game and at which I suspect I could get reasonably competent. And Badugi is magic, but I somehow doubt that it will ever get a deep player base.
Right, dammit, fiction calls.
The final month's figures will make rather horrific reading, but one has to publish the bad with the good. On the plus side, I got back that last "bad" loss of $280, so things have been slightly on the mend. The new strategy in the Big Blind has had the odd effect of making me look forward to that particular hand on every circuit. On the downside, my major metagame fault -- assuming that other people are thinking like I am -- has made me want to be more cautious when raising from the cut off or the button. I must force myself to maintain my previous aggression there (in fact, I ought to be stepping it up, to something like 30% from the current 27%).
With the bonus worked off at Full Tilt, I can give the site a rest for a month (apart from the freeroll) and see what impact that has on the overall figures. It's good to leave sites for a while, because this can trigger marketing flags and special offers "to tempt you back".
I still haven't decided on things long-term. If the Blind-playing experiment works, then short-handed becomes a bit tempting. Alternatively I could just admit that my best talent is as a bonus whore, and carry on in that fashion ("stick to what you are good at"). Thirdly, I could bite the bullet and try NL, although this would be a big gamble that the games would remain OK, and working against it is that I don't really enjoy NL or PL. Mr Young, who nine months ago said that I was overrating the opposition and that I should just imagine them playing while masturbating to child porn on another screen, is now saying that he's quit NL online because there are too many good players.
That leaves PLO, which should still be good at the American-accepting sites because most PLO players from the US are absolutely fucking abysmal. Even I can see that. Or Razz, which I happen to find attractive as a game and at which I suspect I could get reasonably competent. And Badugi is magic, but I somehow doubt that it will ever get a deep player base.
Right, dammit, fiction calls.
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