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June 16, 2004
Expirements
Well the $5/$10 experiment is going well so far. I am currently at $85 per hour after about 50 hours, which is not really a whole lot more than I was making at one of those tables but considering the slow start I got off to it is an improvement. Every single day I play there I am more and more amazed at just how bad everyone plays. Let me give you an example. Yesterday I raised A10s utg and was called by the player after me. The flop came A 10 10 rainbow, I bet and was called. The turn and river came 8 and 2, and both time I bet and both times I was called. I checked the hand history afterwards to see what the guy had and he had 2 4 off. He cold called a raise preflop with 2 4, and called both the flop and turn with undercards despite the scary board.
As bad as people were at the $10/$20 level nobody ever did something like that. People at that level were mostly maniacs (and almost entirely horrible) but at least they were aggressive. My friend George once said that aggressiveness masks a lot of flaws, and these people are proof of it.
Also I think I am going to be moving in mid July, so I am probably going to skip the Festa Al Lago. I was looking forward to it, but moving is going to be pretty expensive and my bankroll is growing once again but is still not quite where I would like it to be. I am hoping instead to make it out to the Orleans Open, since attendance there is usually very good.
I am also looking forward to the WCOOP on PokerStars. Their events have half hour rounds so the structure will actually be worth playing, unlike most of their tournaments which are vastly inferior in structure to the ones on Party Poker. I am also excited about the heads up tournament, which has a $215 buy in and should be pretty interesting. The total buy-ins for the hold'em events should add up to about $5k, and I will probably play them all (I am sure John will play many of them with me) so a nice score will be possible.
Also I am going to start playing in some of the satellites for the Ultimate Bet WPT event in Aruba, as I hope to make it there this year. I would ideally like to play in all of the major events which you can win your way into through satellites online. There were 3 of them last year, so I assume there will be at least 3 this upcoming year and wouldn’t be surprised to see one or two more.
Party Poker also updated their software this month as well, so you can now register for the semi-finals for the Party Poker Million 4 the same way you would register for any tournament. This is a great idea, and I never could understand why they didn’t do this to begin with. This should increase the number of players greatly I would think, which will make it even easier to qualify. The second round begins July 8th, and they have 4 tournaments (running until the 11th) which I plan to play in. I will play in every one of these until I qualify, and will then probably still play in them because I will then receive $12k for any wins. Unfortunately the first set of semis didn’t allow direct buy-in so I didn’t play in them. Very few people did in fact, which I am guessing is why they added it for this one. Last year they had oversold the boat and had to turn down a lot of people, so perhaps they wanted to start out slowly.
I think that I will have a much better experience on the cruise if I get to go again. I will either go alone this time or take a poker friend. My girlfriend and I were very bored last time. All there is to do on the ship is play poker, and I didn’t want to play and leave her with nothing to do. This time I will play poker every waking hour and all will be well. I really do hope they change the location, as I have no real desire to go to Mexico again, and would probably even just stay on board and sleep through the ports if they were the same.
Well I have to get back to the tables, so that is all for now. Good luck.
Posted by themaroon at June 16, 2004 1:25 AM
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