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May 27, 2004
Meltdown
Well today I had a small meltdown in my experiment. I was playing 2 $5/$10 6 max games when someone started criticizing my trash talking and I immediately (out of reflex) tried to set him up for the heads up match. Of course this doesn’t ever really seem to work at the $5/$10 tables because most people there aren’t willing to risk enough to play $15/$30 heads up and the rake on Party is too high to be playing some lower limits heads up. Maybe I could challenge them to $10/$20 but I doubt many of them would be willing to do that.
So as I am setting all this up I get wrecked on another table, getting pocket aces cracked twice, and a few other bad beats. This amount of bad beats is certainly nothing too amazing when playing with people so stupid, though all of them were violently aggressive with their hands long before they got out on me. It was annoying but certainly nothing out of the ordinary. But all of a sudden my brain shut down. My mind was reeling and everything seemed to be happening far too fast for me to keep up with. I made a number of stupid small mistakes which I would never have made playing one table until I realized what was going on and quit.
I don’t so much mind booking a small loss as I do playing badly. I mean I had some very simple decisions to make and managed to make the wrong ones. I think I just overextended myself trying to trash talk this guy into playing me heads up (I am almost positive this guy is one of the 2+2 crowd) and he wouldn’t take the bait. So I ended up costing myself a few dollars. Oh well, lesson learned.
I think I am going to have to just turn my chat on silent in the future when playing 2 tables. I really hate playing multiples anyway because I am sure I am missing things when I do. At these low limits I am sure it is fine, I can spot these people 20 points and still win the ball game. But whereas before I was making 7 bb/hr at one table (which is about the same as 7 bb/100 hands for any 2+2 devotees in the crowd) I think I will only be making 4 or 5 here. This of course means I will still be more profitable (and results so far are inline with this, even though the low amount of hours makes the experiment far from conclusive) than I was playing 1 game. Perhaps over time I will be able to bring it to where I am making 7 bb/hr per table when playing 2, at which point I will definitely try a third game.
I am still rather doubting that I can maintain a good rate at 2 tables should I try it at $10/$20. People aren’t good there but they are much better than they are at $5/$10 and definitely require more attention. You need to play the players more there, which requires more attention. At the lower limit they can almost all be grouped into one of a few stereotypes and played accordingly, they will rarely deviate from it.
Posted by themaroon at May 27, 2004 3:29 AM
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