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July 13, 2004
Orleans Open Day 2, Stud
Well my first ever Stud tournament didn’t go very well for me. I may not know much about Stud but I know 9 5 2 is an awful first 3 cards, and that’s about what I saw every hand for the first hour and a half. Before the break I never once got anything better than a split pair of tens, though I had a couple big draws, none of which came in for me. In the entire first hour I won one pot, and it was where I limped in for $5 and everyone folded. The bring-in was away from the table so I took down $30 (the button had to ante 25). I am not exaggerating at all here either, that was all I won in the first 3 rounds so I came back from the break with about 300 chips (starting stack of 700) and we were playing 40/80 with a 10 ante. I then caught AKQ suited in the whole and raised the bring-in (who had a 5 showing). He called despite the fact that it was my first raise of the day. 4th street brought a brick for both of us, I bet and he called. 5th street gave us both 5s, which made a pair for him. Even though I had a 5 I was pretty sure he had just caught trips so I folded, leaving me with about 120. I then managed to win a decent hand where a lot of people limped in and checked third street. I caught a pair of jacks on 4th, bet, got called, and checked it out from there to win pot B for the day. This brought me back up to about 300. I then had a hand with AKJ of a suit which I just called when someone completed. I turned the Q of my suit and just called couple bets to try to improve but didn’t and was back to about 120. I then got a wired pair of aces, went all in against some numskull who called with 2 10 2 and improved to two pair. I think he even rivered a flush, but I'm not sure and didn’t care anyway, since I was out regardless.
All in all it was a good learning experience. I was playing more for entertainment than anything else so I wasn’t as upset about losing as I normally would. I think I learned a good bit about the game from watching the couple players who seemed to know what they were doing. One of them was even Felicia Lee, another poker blogger who it was nice to meet. She said she was surprised because from my writing she depicted me as someone who was 6’6” and perpetually scowling or something. Too funny.
I also think that most of the players I played with were relatively bad at Stud. I only knew for sure that a few were, as it is hard to tell in a short time at a new game when you can't see people’s hole cards. But I just saw a lot of people do things which were obviously bad even to me. I really don’t think the game is all that different from hold'em anyway. Just has some different concepts.
Now I am playing in the nightly $162 on Party, since it has way better structure than the crap here at the Orleans and bigger prizes. I am at the loosest table I have ever been at, so a couple hands could take me pretty far. Tomorrow is the $230 NL hold'em tournament at the Orleans. It has a $200 rebuy, so will probably cost me $430 unless I get a hand or 2 early. This brings the juice down to tolerable levels, as opposed to today’s 25% (plus 3% for the staff) which I never would have played in if not for its entertainment. I looked at it as a high priced movie ticket. Tomorrow is for profit though.
Posted by themaroon at July 13, 2004 5:47 AM
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