So far the year has started on a positive note for me, at least poker-wise ! I was lucky enough to spend the weekend of New Year's with my wife at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. I played three sessions of poker during the trip.
On Friday I played in a $4/$8 limit Hold 'em ring game that had to be the loosest live game I have ever played in. When I first started to play live poker I natually started at the $2/$4 level but I soon discovered that game to be way too fish-y. I play limit poker in a very tight, straightforward manner so I found that the higher limits suited my play better, but this 4/8 table was all about gambling. I got aces on my second hand and found myself in a SEVEN-way capped pot preflop. By the turn the board read 3456 so my aces had shriveled up and I folded them quickly - needless to say 8-7 offsuit won about a $250 pot by the time that hand was over. I also lost with JJ and QQ - in fact the only two decent pots that I won at that table were with 7d4d on the button in a multi-way pot when I flopped the flush and with 6s4s in the cutoff when the flop was 6-4-2. I left that table after about two hours and was down about $85.
On Saturday, New Year's Eve, I once again played $4/$8 but this time around I was seated at the exact type of table I like to play at, one with an even mix of tight and loose players, and my results were good as I pocketed a $111 profit in a two-hour session.
By this time my wife, who usually plays sit & go's while I play limit, had decided that it was time to switch to some limit after having fallen vicitm to 3 bad beats in the 3 sit & go's she had already played. I decided that since she was playing limit I would try a $100+20 one-table sit & go. I don't like to play in sit & go's when my wife is also involved because the expected value declines too much - if I win money I want to win OTHER people's money, not my wife's ! So I sat down for my very first live sit & go, played some very smart and perceptive poker, and was able to come in second, winning $300 for a net profit of $180. (Meantime my wife, after having been down several big bets, hit a nice run of cards at the 4/8 table and won almost as much as I did in my sit & go!)
Overall poker profit in 5-6 hours of play = just over $200.
On Friday I played in a $4/$8 limit Hold 'em ring game that had to be the loosest live game I have ever played in. When I first started to play live poker I natually started at the $2/$4 level but I soon discovered that game to be way too fish-y. I play limit poker in a very tight, straightforward manner so I found that the higher limits suited my play better, but this 4/8 table was all about gambling. I got aces on my second hand and found myself in a SEVEN-way capped pot preflop. By the turn the board read 3456 so my aces had shriveled up and I folded them quickly - needless to say 8-7 offsuit won about a $250 pot by the time that hand was over. I also lost with JJ and QQ - in fact the only two decent pots that I won at that table were with 7d4d on the button in a multi-way pot when I flopped the flush and with 6s4s in the cutoff when the flop was 6-4-2. I left that table after about two hours and was down about $85.
On Saturday, New Year's Eve, I once again played $4/$8 but this time around I was seated at the exact type of table I like to play at, one with an even mix of tight and loose players, and my results were good as I pocketed a $111 profit in a two-hour session.
By this time my wife, who usually plays sit & go's while I play limit, had decided that it was time to switch to some limit after having fallen vicitm to 3 bad beats in the 3 sit & go's she had already played. I decided that since she was playing limit I would try a $100+20 one-table sit & go. I don't like to play in sit & go's when my wife is also involved because the expected value declines too much - if I win money I want to win OTHER people's money, not my wife's ! So I sat down for my very first live sit & go, played some very smart and perceptive poker, and was able to come in second, winning $300 for a net profit of $180. (Meantime my wife, after having been down several big bets, hit a nice run of cards at the 4/8 table and won almost as much as I did in my sit & go!)
Overall poker profit in 5-6 hours of play = just over $200.
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