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Some downtime
Jun. 2nd, 2005 12:36 pmMindful of the temptation to play too much when you are on a hot streak, and aware of my own addictive nature, I have reined back on my play this past couple of days.
This didn't start out as a long-term strategy. It just so happens that I am working off a couple of bonuses on Paradise and Party. Looking at the Paradise site on Tuesday afternoon/evening, there was only one $5-$10 game, and that one showed all the attraction of drying paint on a cloudy day. So I trundled into a couple of tables of $2-$4 for 90 minutes, ticking off the bonus points.
This was so relaxing (albeit a bit tedious) that I did the same yesterday. Mike Caro points out in SS2 that you only have so many hours that you can devote to poker. What he ought to have said was that there are only so many hours that you should devote to poker. Now, I don't want the hours that I play to be dictated by when the good $5-$10 games are. I want to play when I want to play, and I have to choose my games with that as the first parameter. Apart from that, I'm liberal. I don't care what the site is, what the currency is, or even, in a way, what the game is.
That said, if I can't find a $5-$10 game that I am happy with, I will just multi-table $2-$4.
Applying the "new" style to $2-$4 at this time of day is brilliantly effective. I keep sitting there saying to myself, "surely they'll find me out before long?" But most of the opposition seemed to have no response in their armoury. The one player who did (Binzou, quite capable of playing $5-$10 himself, to my mind) and who decided to make a stand, caught me once and then got roundly trounced by me three times on the spin.
After the bonuses are cleared I shall probably return to Party Poker soon-to-be PLC and put in about an hour of two $5-$10 tables a night, except for the weekends.
Other time at the tables will be more "my time". This includes tournaments and PLO. I am also seriously thinking of having a go at triple-draw. Lowball games have always been a strength of mine, for some strange reason. I suspect that it is because I have always been happier to punt three-to-a-low, while most other players seem to wait until they have four. I actually enjoy Razz (perhaps the only person in the world to do so) and I had a fair record at lowball single draw.
Deuce-To-Seven draw looks excellent because it is brilliantly "trappy" for the player who has not thought about the game (hint, it's the fact that straights count that catches out the novice). And it's the kind of game I like.
I think that only Ultimate offers it at the moment, so I may experiment at the low stakes there for a while, just to find my feet. I suspect that the game might catch on in LV as well, which might make live games fun...
Bleahh, I have to do tidying up of various Drives this afternoon. First they tell us to get rid of all our paper, and then, when we store stuff electronically, they moan that the Drives are full! Just no pleasing some people.
This didn't start out as a long-term strategy. It just so happens that I am working off a couple of bonuses on Paradise and Party. Looking at the Paradise site on Tuesday afternoon/evening, there was only one $5-$10 game, and that one showed all the attraction of drying paint on a cloudy day. So I trundled into a couple of tables of $2-$4 for 90 minutes, ticking off the bonus points.
This was so relaxing (albeit a bit tedious) that I did the same yesterday. Mike Caro points out in SS2 that you only have so many hours that you can devote to poker. What he ought to have said was that there are only so many hours that you should devote to poker. Now, I don't want the hours that I play to be dictated by when the good $5-$10 games are. I want to play when I want to play, and I have to choose my games with that as the first parameter. Apart from that, I'm liberal. I don't care what the site is, what the currency is, or even, in a way, what the game is.
That said, if I can't find a $5-$10 game that I am happy with, I will just multi-table $2-$4.
Applying the "new" style to $2-$4 at this time of day is brilliantly effective. I keep sitting there saying to myself, "surely they'll find me out before long?" But most of the opposition seemed to have no response in their armoury. The one player who did (Binzou, quite capable of playing $5-$10 himself, to my mind) and who decided to make a stand, caught me once and then got roundly trounced by me three times on the spin.
After the bonuses are cleared I shall probably return to Party Poker soon-to-be PLC and put in about an hour of two $5-$10 tables a night, except for the weekends.
Other time at the tables will be more "my time". This includes tournaments and PLO. I am also seriously thinking of having a go at triple-draw. Lowball games have always been a strength of mine, for some strange reason. I suspect that it is because I have always been happier to punt three-to-a-low, while most other players seem to wait until they have four. I actually enjoy Razz (perhaps the only person in the world to do so) and I had a fair record at lowball single draw.
Deuce-To-Seven draw looks excellent because it is brilliantly "trappy" for the player who has not thought about the game (hint, it's the fact that straights count that catches out the novice). And it's the kind of game I like.
I think that only Ultimate offers it at the moment, so I may experiment at the low stakes there for a while, just to find my feet. I suspect that the game might catch on in LV as well, which might make live games fun...
Bleahh, I have to do tidying up of various Drives this afternoon. First they tell us to get rid of all our paper, and then, when we store stuff electronically, they moan that the Drives are full! Just no pleasing some people.
