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Well, I finally found some of the poker bloggers. At the MGM they descended like rampaging hordes. I found myself playing 2-4 HORSE, not a game I look forward to returning to, at least, not at those stakes. Needless to say I played far too loosely, and was quite happy to escape for a $35 loss. Hell, it was a social game.
Spoke to Poker prof, Trump Josh, Dr Pauly, his brother Derek, Maudie, Gracie, Bill Rini. Wil Wheaton and Paul Phillips turned up and Paul ripped up the 2-5 NL table (that, or he sat down with a grand). Star of the night was definitely Iggy, a man who would have been quite at home in the Diplomacy hobby of the 1980s. Any man who can claim that if you enter "Jewbag shyster" into Google you immediately get Barry Greenstein as the top link, in an apparently straight voice, has, for an American, a fine British sense of irony.
Off to the tournament now, which will be more money thrown away in a good cause.
Yesterday morning tested the zen principle that "sometimes, you will play for hours, and nothing will happen". In four hours I think that I played three hands of significance. QQ turned into a set and I won about $100 on the hand. Then two raising hands (AQ, AJ) failed to come good on flop and turn against a single opponent each time who had defended their blinds with a pair of sixes and a pair of fives respectively. Net result, plus $46 for the session.
Also a gain if $26 in the $5-$10 game in teh Aladdin. The softness of the game is counterbalanced by the horrific 10% rake to $40 and the $1 taken for the high hand bonus. Since there was usually a raise pre-flop, this negated much of the high-hand potential. I would guess that I was paying about $15 an hour to play here, compared with $8 in the $8-$16 in the Bellagio. You need a fairly soft game to counterbalance that cost.
As I've said before, you should only play the loose-passive low-limit games if you are high-hand bonus hunting.
More later.
Spoke to Poker prof, Trump Josh, Dr Pauly, his brother Derek, Maudie, Gracie, Bill Rini. Wil Wheaton and Paul Phillips turned up and Paul ripped up the 2-5 NL table (that, or he sat down with a grand). Star of the night was definitely Iggy, a man who would have been quite at home in the Diplomacy hobby of the 1980s. Any man who can claim that if you enter "Jewbag shyster" into Google you immediately get Barry Greenstein as the top link, in an apparently straight voice, has, for an American, a fine British sense of irony.
Off to the tournament now, which will be more money thrown away in a good cause.
Yesterday morning tested the zen principle that "sometimes, you will play for hours, and nothing will happen". In four hours I think that I played three hands of significance. QQ turned into a set and I won about $100 on the hand. Then two raising hands (AQ, AJ) failed to come good on flop and turn against a single opponent each time who had defended their blinds with a pair of sixes and a pair of fives respectively. Net result, plus $46 for the session.
Also a gain if $26 in the $5-$10 game in teh Aladdin. The softness of the game is counterbalanced by the horrific 10% rake to $40 and the $1 taken for the high hand bonus. Since there was usually a raise pre-flop, this negated much of the high-hand potential. I would guess that I was paying about $15 an hour to play here, compared with $8 in the $8-$16 in the Bellagio. You need a fairly soft game to counterbalance that cost.
As I've said before, you should only play the loose-passive low-limit games if you are high-hand bonus hunting.
More later.
