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This train is just too slow
Sep. 13th, 2006 07:55 pmOne of the drawbacks of deciding to get to a certain target on a poker site within a certain timescale is that you sometimes have to play for longer than you feel like. Take my Gold freeroll challenge on Full Tilt. I would notmally expect to get to 100 points in an evening after 160 hands or so. Playing at three tables, that's less than an hour.
Tonight, that was not the case. $3-$6 table was there none. I could have popped in to the $1000-$2000 game and played Gus Hansen, but I thought that this might be slightly negative EV in working off the bonus. So I was stuck in the largest ring games available, 2 times $2-$4.
And one of these was a rockfest.
But, of course, I LIKE rocks. They are my bread and butter. One of the advantages of having to play in "bad" games for longer than you want is that you realise that these people are going to give you money. At the other, mnore "normal" table (with a couple of laggy players), I managed to lose $50 or thereabouts, but at the rockfest table, where I had to play longer than I would have liked (296 hands worth over 2.5 hours to be precise), my Poker tracker stats on the 166 hands I played on Wigwam were:
VPIP 15.66%, Won$WSF 64.71%, Went to showdown 35.29%. Won at Showdown 83.33%. Profit $139.
The average saw flop in this nine-handed game was 23% and the average pot size was a fraction over $12 (3x the big blind). I was winning hands from the button, the blinds, middle position, you name it. Sure, I ran good for those showdown percentages, but a lot of the money came from the simple procedure of raising a limp, betting the flop, taking down the pot. Easy. God bless deposit bonus hunters, you weak-tight donkeys. Gimme the cash. I am Grippa.
Oh, and knowing that suited connectors are crap and Ace-Nine off is great is useful
$1000-$2000 eh? It's hard to believe that six years ago I looked at the biggest game on Paradise, a $20-$40 game, and wondered to myself "wow, how can people play for stakes like that?"
Now I look at Hansen winning $23K in half an hour and shrug my shoulders. "Whatever", I say.
Anyway, that's four hours of poker tonight when I only intended to play for a couple. Bloody gold freeroll challenges...
Oh, and my numbers for KK after 9,100 hands are received it 38 times, net result, minus $63 (0.31BB per hand). Number of times up against Aces ... seven.
Seven! Give me strength.
Right, let's go and catch up with Lost.
Tonight, that was not the case. $3-$6 table was there none. I could have popped in to the $1000-$2000 game and played Gus Hansen, but I thought that this might be slightly negative EV in working off the bonus. So I was stuck in the largest ring games available, 2 times $2-$4.
And one of these was a rockfest.
But, of course, I LIKE rocks. They are my bread and butter. One of the advantages of having to play in "bad" games for longer than you want is that you realise that these people are going to give you money. At the other, mnore "normal" table (with a couple of laggy players), I managed to lose $50 or thereabouts, but at the rockfest table, where I had to play longer than I would have liked (296 hands worth over 2.5 hours to be precise), my Poker tracker stats on the 166 hands I played on Wigwam were:
VPIP 15.66%, Won$WSF 64.71%, Went to showdown 35.29%. Won at Showdown 83.33%. Profit $139.
The average saw flop in this nine-handed game was 23% and the average pot size was a fraction over $12 (3x the big blind). I was winning hands from the button, the blinds, middle position, you name it. Sure, I ran good for those showdown percentages, but a lot of the money came from the simple procedure of raising a limp, betting the flop, taking down the pot. Easy. God bless deposit bonus hunters, you weak-tight donkeys. Gimme the cash. I am Grippa.
Oh, and knowing that suited connectors are crap and Ace-Nine off is great is useful
$1000-$2000 eh? It's hard to believe that six years ago I looked at the biggest game on Paradise, a $20-$40 game, and wondered to myself "wow, how can people play for stakes like that?"
Now I look at Hansen winning $23K in half an hour and shrug my shoulders. "Whatever", I say.
Anyway, that's four hours of poker tonight when I only intended to play for a couple. Bloody gold freeroll challenges...
Oh, and my numbers for KK after 9,100 hands are received it 38 times, net result, minus $63 (0.31BB per hand). Number of times up against Aces ... seven.
Seven! Give me strength.
Right, let's go and catch up with Lost.
