Well, the Party 15/30 continues to roll along marvelously for me. I'm actually getting a little worried--I've been running so well that it's only a matter of time before I get my ass handed to me. I don't have access to my database right now, but an example hand would be this one hand where I had QQ in the BB and the pot ended up being capped four ways preflop, four ways on the flop (at which point I decided that I should at the very least slow down and probably check-fold on the turn), but then I hit a Q on the turn to win the huge pot from a very enraged KK.
I've certainly had my share of bad river cards, but I've also gotten quite lucky on the river (or turn, as the case may be) in more than a few big pots. I can easily see my next 10,000 hands or so being significantly less profitable than the last 10,000 (which were also the first 10,000 at that level).
Anyways, I'm really starting to want to play in the main event of the WSOP. My only problem is actually, you know, getting a seat. I certainly don't have the bankroll to go dropping $10K on a seat, and I just don't have the patience for online tournaments to win a seat. I can do online cash games fine, of course, and I'm even semi-decent at SnGs, but online multi-table tournaments are just a recipe for disaster for me. I'll sit there and do fine, but then get bored, or lose concentration or whatever and play a hand or two badly, lose a chunk of chips and then just donk the rest away.
I played a freeroll at Pokerroom where the winner would get a WSOP ME package, and I only had about 600 players to beat, half the players that had registered weren't even in the damn tournament (they were "away," posting and folding), and the top 100 players all got entries into another WSOP tournament. All I had to do was sit there, steal the blinds from the posting-and-folding players (literally six of the ten players at my table were doing that) and wait for them to all bust out. But no, I finished in the 300's somewhere anyways, donking off my chips with a couple of very questionable moves.
Online MTTs are a real war of attrition, and I guess I'm just used to the more regular positive reinforcement that comes with cash games--I mean if I win a pot at 15/30, that's a few hundred bucks right there. If I win a pot at a tournament, I have more chips, but I still have to beat some hundreds of random other players just to cash and get some piddly payout. And finishing in the top three or so, where the real money is--fuggetaboutit. I guess I'll just have to learn to appreciate the value of the tournament chips I accumulate. Or something.
Doing poorly in online tournaments is strange because I've actually done well in live tournaments. I'm able to sit there for hours and make better decisions as a whole. I'm not sure why that is. I think when I first started playing cash games, I was the same way--good and disciplined live, a bit undisciplined online. I probably just need more overall experience before I'm able to regularly perform as well as I can at online MTTs.
So, yeah, the bottom line is that while I'll be in Vegas for the ME, I almost certainly won't be playing. Speaking of which...
oh, c'mon! it's only 333 big bets!
Posted by: eric | June 07, 2005 at 14:02
I'm glad someone is running well. This entire year has been an excercise in running poorly.
It's getting a bit old. I'm down in my last 45k hands. I think AA is supposed to win more than 50% of the time in 6max games...
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Posted by: Kj | February 06, 2007 at 14:28