April 27, 2010
After a day off, back at work.
Last night I stayed up till about 5am. I knew I would regret it. I woke up at about 11:30 this morning. Half the day gone. I did manage to get a few things done though. Then I went out to lunch with Courtney. We had a gift certificate for a local restaurant. We went there about 1pm and it was freaking closed. I couldn’t believe it. I was pissed. Drove across town for nothing. I decided to go to New York Teryaki. (don’t exactly know if they have those anywhere else) They have the best sushi in town for sure. I was going to eat as much sushi till I was stuffed. I was on food tilt. I bought a fairly large plate. It was about $20, not bad, this is prolly the cheapest sushi in Washington, literally. (Unless you buy it at the store, which I plan on doing when I’m in Seattle in a couple weeks) It is soooo good tho. So lunch ended up being spendy (for me), but wonderful.
Started studying some hands from a couple nights ago at about 4pm. Got started playing a short time later. Mariner game started at 5:00 so that was awesome. They played the Royals. Right out of the gate I was on fire (hands held up). Won a few games and placed in a few more. It was good and I was happy. Making money makes poker fun. I think I have really improved on my short handed game. Also I stopped shoving very mediocre hands utg when I am low stacked and in danger of being cut in half by the blinds. It is just too much of an equity loss to make up. A lot of regs live by pushing utg with anything when they are low, but it is such a HUGE leak. On 2p2 the general consensus is too push with just about anything when you are five blinds or lower utg. I tried that for a few hundred games, it doesn’t work. At least at this level. I like it because it’s not such a horrible equity loss that you can’t make money. So players still see small profit and can still make this move. I just reap the rewards so much.
The last two or three sessions I ran horrible. I lost count of how many sets I lost to on the river. Once I was out of half of my tourneys and I wasn’t even half way through the session. I got down to my final four games, ready to lose them all, and took two 2nds and a 1st. Poker can be so crazy. I should have placed in the last one, but I got fucked hard on the bubble.
I played five sets tonight. 60 games. I made 17 buy-ins. Which is just awesome. I probably made almost all of that in the first 50 minutes. I’m glad I could at least break even in the rest. With these wins I feel like my ROI is climbing and it better not stop for awhile. I’m at about an 8% roi over 1100 games at the $6.5s. It really feels good.
Going to get caught up on some shows. Celebrity Apprentice and Amazing Race. Tomorrow should be full of poker and I really hope I get my ass to the gym.
See ya guys
RIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGED!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 Comments:
JtX posted on April 27, 2010 at 06:11 AM
I would rather say that it is a HUGE leak to let your stack be so low that it can be cut in half by blinds. When you have 2 BBs left, you have no fold equity and it isn't that great move, but with 3-5BBs, people are still folding and it works. One of the worst things that can happen to you in a SNG would be losing fold equity when you can't fold yourself to money.
When you analyze the equity loss you should not look desperation shove in a vacuum, but rather think ahead 1-2 hands. Oftentimes it's better to have some equity loss now than have a lot worse equity loss during the next hand.
I have tried desperation shoving for a few thousand games now and it's not going away from my arsenal of moves.
RIGGED! posted on April 27, 2010 at 07:29 AM
I won't shove it if it's worse than like -.6% equity below my edge. Any worse and it seems like I just threw my money in the fire.
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