Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Finally back to brick and mortar
Pokerwise, I am sooo glad January is over.
I ended up losing quite a bit during my last few days in thailand so I think all in all I'm up not even $1k in January '07, playing only online. I already knew that once I was back I would play offline a lot more and online a lot less, but not winning a significant amount in what probably amounted to 50 hours or so of play didn't exactly make me rethink that.
Anyway, since Marco might be coming down for the weekend, I dropped by the Hannover casino to get seats for both of us for friday and sunday. There didn't seem to be anyone working in the poker area except for waiters and the dealers that were currently dealing, so I made the cunning plan of sitting down at one of the tables and waiting for that dealer to finish his 30 minute shift and then getting him to sign me up.
They had two tables of 5/10 NL going; table 1 was the regulars, which is a crowd of some semi-competent nits, some good players, and 3 or 4 deep-pocket-donkeys. Table 2 was literally all dead money. There are lots of different kinds of course, but my favorite is always the (usually turkish or arab) guys that take pride in 'being bluffers', and then attempt to do so with a 300-Euro stack :)
Anyway, I hit some hands, won €860 in like twenty minutes, finally even got the last two seats (keeping fingers crossed that that is actually going to work) and went home to sleep. Probably shoulda stayed and busted them all, but I had promised to be there to eat dinner and I was really tired anyway (still jetlagged a bit).
Looking forward to the weekend !
I ended up losing quite a bit during my last few days in thailand so I think all in all I'm up not even $1k in January '07, playing only online. I already knew that once I was back I would play offline a lot more and online a lot less, but not winning a significant amount in what probably amounted to 50 hours or so of play didn't exactly make me rethink that.
Anyway, since Marco might be coming down for the weekend, I dropped by the Hannover casino to get seats for both of us for friday and sunday. There didn't seem to be anyone working in the poker area except for waiters and the dealers that were currently dealing, so I made the cunning plan of sitting down at one of the tables and waiting for that dealer to finish his 30 minute shift and then getting him to sign me up.
They had two tables of 5/10 NL going; table 1 was the regulars, which is a crowd of some semi-competent nits, some good players, and 3 or 4 deep-pocket-donkeys. Table 2 was literally all dead money. There are lots of different kinds of course, but my favorite is always the (usually turkish or arab) guys that take pride in 'being bluffers', and then attempt to do so with a 300-Euro stack :)
Anyway, I hit some hands, won €860 in like twenty minutes, finally even got the last two seats (keeping fingers crossed that that is actually going to work) and went home to sleep. Probably shoulda stayed and busted them all, but I had promised to be there to eat dinner and I was really tired anyway (still jetlagged a bit).
Looking forward to the weekend !
# posted by dirkb : Wednesday, February 07, 2007
