Hand made my day

POKERSTARS GAME #17967004005: HOLD’EM NO LIMIT ($3/$6) – 2008/06/06 – 22:53:50 (ET)
Table ‘Havnia IV’ 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: ericontilt ($600 in chips)
Seat 2: m_reed05 ($600 in chips)
Seat 3: ALGERMAN ($504.55 in chips)
Seat 4: andr3w321 ($1690 in chips)
Seat 5: leslat ($1025.15 in chips)
Seat 6: bfl4me ($705 in chips)
leslat: posts small blind $3
bfl4me: posts big blind $6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to andr3w321 [Ts Ks]
ericontilt: raises $12 to $18
m_reed05: folds
ALGERMAN: folds
andr3w321: calls $18
leslat: calls $15
bfl4me: folds
*** FLOP *** [Js As Qs]
leslat: checks
ericontilt: checks
andr3w321: checks
*** TURN *** [Js As Qs] [7d]
leslat: bets $6
ericontilt: raises $39 to $45
andr3w321: calls $45
leslat: folds
*** RIVER *** [Js As Qs 7d] [Jc]
ericontilt: bets $120
andr3w321: raises $1507 to $1627 and is all-in
ericontilt: calls $417 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($1090) returned to andr3w321
leslat is sitting out
*** SHOW DOWN ***
andr3w321: shows [Ts Ks] (a Royal Flush)
ericontilt: mucks hand
andr3w321 collected $1227 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $1230 | Rake $3
Board [Js As Qs 7d Jc]
Seat 1: ericontilt mucked [7c 7h]
Seat 2: m_reed05 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: ALGERMAN folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: andr3w321 (button) showed [Ts Ks] and won ($1227) with a Royal Flush
Seat 5: leslat (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 6: bfl4me (big blind) folded before Flop

A sign of good things to come? I don’t really have the roll for 5/10 anymore due to cashouts and downswingaments so I’m going to stick to 6-tabling 3/6 until vegas. If anyone catches me playing above 3/6 before I’m in Vegas I’ll ship you $100.

I took a lil break from poker today and played wii for like 5 hours today and I gotta say my super mario galaxy game is coming along nicely(maybe I’ll work on my Resident Evil 4 game tomorrow). One thing I realized this afternoon is that when I was 8-tabling I thought I was reducing my variance because I was getting in so much more volume, but in reality I believe I was increasing it a ton. Let me explain. I was reminded of a deucescracked article I read a few months ago here that will go into much more detail and explain it better than I can but basically it’s this:

When I’m 4 tabling my winrate is say 5BB/100, 6 tabling say it’s 4 or 3 but 8 tabling I think it’s probably more like 1BB/100. Now when you have a winrate of 1BB/100 there is a MUCH MUCH MUCH greater chance that you are going to end up losing money over any particular span of hands. Now, 4 tabling I may not get as much volume in and my winrate might fall to say 1BB/100 when I’m running bad, but it’s still going to be in the green. 8-tabling with a winrate of 1BB/100 if I run even slightly bad I’m going to be in the red. Being in the red over a long span of hands for me usually puts me on tilt, which puts me even more in the red which can turn me into a losing player. To sum up, 4-6 tables is optimal for me IMO both for reducing variance & maximizing hourly.

Note about leatherass: he’s a machine. At first I thought I could just breakeven for the first 10k hands 8-tabling or 20k hands or whatever and be fine, eventually I would improve and winrate would go up. It’d be like learning poker all over again. While this may be true, it’s just not worth it for me. The amount of hours you have to work and the variance you are gonna deal with in the beginning is pretty sickening. Also, playing 800 hands an hour is just very mentally draining. I was so out of it the past couple of days when I put in like 4400 hand days. Soooo… I hope that made sense. I hope I didn’t lose too many fanboys from my tiltposts earlier.

Moooooonkey viiiiiiids!

Spinning kick!

Monkey controls a robotic arm with his mind!
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