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The psychology of chips
Dec. 7th, 2005 10:46 amSat down in 8-16. First hand in MP1, pick up pocket nines. See $16 on my right. Say "raise" and throw in $32. Dealer returns me $8. Whoops. Seems like I was playing the previously unheard of game of $16-$32. Player on my right had raised to $16, not flat-called. Clue. Work out betting units before you sit in new game.
Her reraised. I called. Flop was no good and I walked away, $32 down after one hand. He was called down by someone else and showed his Aces.
Not deterred, I worked back to a $227 win in the first session and a $164 session in the second. Threw away $30 going high-hand hunting and winding down in the Flamingo. During the day the game is good - just competent and tight enough to be easily beatable. In the evening it has higher volatility. I lost a hand with KK where the SB called my raise with 93 off and hit two-pair on flop, housing up on turn. I was fairly sure that I was behind, but an idiot on my right thought that his pair of Jacks was good and was also calling. That gave me better odds to stay in, but minus $40 is still minus $40. Heads-up, I would have laid it down.
I got the kid back about 2am with an 88 raise in UTG+1 (UTG limped). He reraised with Aces and two others were in for the ride. Board was 456. I called his bet and a seven came on turn. Boom. Check-raise turn, bet flop, get paid off. "You raised with a pair of eights! Wow. Great play!" (insert your own tone of sarcasm here) God bless the Internet, kid.
8-16 might appear to be only twice as big as 4-8, but in the Bellagio, it isn't. This is because the unit stack is $5 (in the Wynn, I hear, it is $2). So this means that my "pyramid" is red rather than blue/white. Net result is that the psychology of a $100 profit is far less in 8-16 (= "one stack") than it is in 4-8 (= "one rack"). It also makes the psychological jump greater. On the plus side, it makes the move from 8-16 to 15-30 fairly minor in psychological terms, because both use units of $5. The next big step is to $30-$60, when the $10 chips become the unit of currency.
Names seen. Cindy Violette, Mike Sexton, Scotty, Tony Ma, plus Gus Hansen and Jennifer Harman in Bobby's Room and Men The Master in the tournament (last 14 players, I think). Does Gus Hansen never sleep?
More later. Into LV sync time now.
Her reraised. I called. Flop was no good and I walked away, $32 down after one hand. He was called down by someone else and showed his Aces.
Not deterred, I worked back to a $227 win in the first session and a $164 session in the second. Threw away $30 going high-hand hunting and winding down in the Flamingo. During the day the game is good - just competent and tight enough to be easily beatable. In the evening it has higher volatility. I lost a hand with KK where the SB called my raise with 93 off and hit two-pair on flop, housing up on turn. I was fairly sure that I was behind, but an idiot on my right thought that his pair of Jacks was good and was also calling. That gave me better odds to stay in, but minus $40 is still minus $40. Heads-up, I would have laid it down.
I got the kid back about 2am with an 88 raise in UTG+1 (UTG limped). He reraised with Aces and two others were in for the ride. Board was 456. I called his bet and a seven came on turn. Boom. Check-raise turn, bet flop, get paid off. "You raised with a pair of eights! Wow. Great play!" (insert your own tone of sarcasm here) God bless the Internet, kid.
8-16 might appear to be only twice as big as 4-8, but in the Bellagio, it isn't. This is because the unit stack is $5 (in the Wynn, I hear, it is $2). So this means that my "pyramid" is red rather than blue/white. Net result is that the psychology of a $100 profit is far less in 8-16 (= "one stack") than it is in 4-8 (= "one rack"). It also makes the psychological jump greater. On the plus side, it makes the move from 8-16 to 15-30 fairly minor in psychological terms, because both use units of $5. The next big step is to $30-$60, when the $10 chips become the unit of currency.
Names seen. Cindy Violette, Mike Sexton, Scotty, Tony Ma, plus Gus Hansen and Jennifer Harman in Bobby's Room and Men The Master in the tournament (last 14 players, I think). Does Gus Hansen never sleep?
More later. Into LV sync time now.
