Monday, September 25, 2006
Booh poopy Spielbank staff.
The past weekend's live play brought some mixed feelings with it. I originally had intended to skip friday's session because I wanted to go to practice, but practice got cancelled since only 3 guys showed up apparently. The casino enforces a dress code, so I rushed over to H&M to get myself some hideously ugly pants and a shirt without even trying them on. I intend to throw them away this week anyway, so I pretty much considered them an 80 Euro two-day pass to the casino. I was going to meet up at a bar with the fabulous Kirsten so I only had 2 hours to play anyway, but somehow i made 1.3k Euros in those two hours. I hit a set of Kings and hit a flush but shouldn't have been paid off for either hand.
On saturday however, I intended to pretty much pull an all-nighter, but had all my hopes destroyed by the casino staff who somehow assigned seats to twelve players and had to take two seats away from people, one of them being me :( I couldn't quite bring myself to leave because that game was just sooooo juicy, so I stuck around for a few more hours before giving up.
Playing 2/4 SHNL on PartyPoker has been pretty successful for me this past week as well, as I made about $3300 total in maybe 10-12 hours of play. I think I might finally be getting a little bit better at it, too. Coming from a limit background so to speak, with the old 'raise-or-fold-but-never-call' school of thought and all, I am just now slowly beginning to master the art of the cold-call. I have played several hands now where at least until the turn my action was (or I think the correct action would have been...) cold-call the pf raise, call the flop bet, call the turn bet - and no, I'm not talking about flopped full houses :)
On saturday however, I intended to pretty much pull an all-nighter, but had all my hopes destroyed by the casino staff who somehow assigned seats to twelve players and had to take two seats away from people, one of them being me :( I couldn't quite bring myself to leave because that game was just sooooo juicy, so I stuck around for a few more hours before giving up.
Playing 2/4 SHNL on PartyPoker has been pretty successful for me this past week as well, as I made about $3300 total in maybe 10-12 hours of play. I think I might finally be getting a little bit better at it, too. Coming from a limit background so to speak, with the old 'raise-or-fold-but-never-call' school of thought and all, I am just now slowly beginning to master the art of the cold-call. I have played several hands now where at least until the turn my action was (or I think the correct action would have been...) cold-call the pf raise, call the flop bet, call the turn bet - and no, I'm not talking about flopped full houses :)
# posted by dirkb : Monday, September 25, 2006
