Two Slow Nights and a 5th Place Finish
The city has been remarkably not crowded over the past two days, which has been unexpected. This applies to the card rooms especially. Tables have been tight or generally lacking opportunities that I can see.
My theory is that all the people my age or below are home for the holidays, and they won't get to Vegas until the next two weekends, when they arrive in droves. By being here in numbers, they, in various ways, draw in the older crowd. There will be drink, there will be merry. All this is unfortunate as I do not plan to play poker after Wednesday.
I placed just out of the money in the late night tournament at Binion's. This may sound like I played well, but I was getting cards when I needed them. Mostly I was playing very tight, getting blinded down when I wasn't getting playable cards. But I'm pretty sure that by employing a variant of Sklansky's 'System' (playing only with a limited number of hands and always going all-in), I was getting the most out of whenever I got good cards. So in effect, I was doubling up or significantly adding to my stack whenever I decided not to fold, making up for my non-optimal play in other areas. This also means that I made relatively few decisions that night.
I was at least 3rd in stacks by the time it got to 5 players; last payout was to 4th place. But the payout difference between even 3rd and 1st was huge. I had jacks against a player all-in who was raising with anything (though usually when shortstacked, in this hand he had me covered), and the pot was offering me much better than 1:1. I call, guy turns over AKo; river gave him a flush to my set. The hand was between who would be chip leader by a fair margin.
It was a fun night, but with so few actual decisions it wasn't much to write about.
Karting tomorrow!
My theory is that all the people my age or below are home for the holidays, and they won't get to Vegas until the next two weekends, when they arrive in droves. By being here in numbers, they, in various ways, draw in the older crowd. There will be drink, there will be merry. All this is unfortunate as I do not plan to play poker after Wednesday.
I placed just out of the money in the late night tournament at Binion's. This may sound like I played well, but I was getting cards when I needed them. Mostly I was playing very tight, getting blinded down when I wasn't getting playable cards. But I'm pretty sure that by employing a variant of Sklansky's 'System' (playing only with a limited number of hands and always going all-in), I was getting the most out of whenever I got good cards. So in effect, I was doubling up or significantly adding to my stack whenever I decided not to fold, making up for my non-optimal play in other areas. This also means that I made relatively few decisions that night.
I was at least 3rd in stacks by the time it got to 5 players; last payout was to 4th place. But the payout difference between even 3rd and 1st was huge. I had jacks against a player all-in who was raising with anything (though usually when shortstacked, in this hand he had me covered), and the pot was offering me much better than 1:1. I call, guy turns over AKo; river gave him a flush to my set. The hand was between who would be chip leader by a fair margin.
It was a fun night, but with so few actual decisions it wasn't much to write about.
Karting tomorrow!
posted by joe at 1:22 PM
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