It’s still nice to win though

It’s all one big game….one big long never ending game. We all know this right….of course we do. Yet I have always argued that the maths guru’s miss some very important points when talking about standard deviation and variance in gambling.

Many of them have not gambled or played poker in their lives and then preach to the likes of us telling us what to do. Well I was doing my nuts in last night in the 25-50 to the tune of around $9k or so and was ready for packing it in not because I was behind by 9k but because I dont play well when I am losing.

Suddenly a player who should not be within three time zones of a 25-50 NL sits down. I have book on him and I decide to stick around for a while. He buys in for the maximum and within about 30 minutes to an hour, passes almost two entire buy ins across to one very grateful recipient…..me!

Shortly after that the game broke up as there was no way I was playing HU against the deadliest HU NL player on the site. But dont anyone tell me that ending a session $800 ahead after being down nearly 10k is a great result not just for your roll but also for you mental well being.

I am not the worlds most natural poker player, I am very good but only after having worked damn hard on my game for a very long time. There are many more very good players around now and you have to be careful who you sit down with and 25-50 NL is not my natural game.

Limit hold’em has always been my bread and butter now for ages but those games really started to tighten up and I struggled for a while but have started doing very well again in 6 handed games after adjusting my game somewhat.

But I am alot more selective these days but yet multi-tabling at 10-20 limit with rakeback still gives me a very good hourly rate. I used to hate multi-tabling a while back but lots of things have changed this year. I am playing more PLO than I used to and limit is so automatic that it lends itself to multi-tabling and is the game that I play whenever I am tired but dont want to lose any hours at the table.

I just hope that I can catch these fish on the 25-50 before they do their roll in and vanish. You can easily get 50k up in an evening in these games and it often happens but not to me yet.

By the way, my book Secrets of Professional Limit Hold’em is due out late this year, I know that it is massively delayed but it is on its way…honest.

See you all soon and stay lucky

The Dean