Good News
Having had to take matters into a real B&M casino in order to satisfy SuperGirl's challenge, I'm pleased to report that I've achieved fairly good levels of success, but not of the "double-the-bankroll' variety -- I'm close though, with 8 hours to go until Supergirl's flight checks in. It's going to be difficult to get to the promised land being at work and all, but you never know ... maybe I can buy a scratch-off lottery ticket and hit gold.
I'm averaging the big blind an hour and can say from my last session that there are no plays I'd have made differently in retrospect. So, that's an excellent sign as I see it -- hopefully, SuperGirl will agree. We'll find out tonight.
I'm getting the impression that I've much to learn from the online game. I might be the kind of player that needs to see, hear, feel my opponent in order to gain my full advantage -- and animated caricatures or icons don't seem to have quite the same effect. I'll offer the following example of a play which has netted me positive yields in the casinos, but heavy losses when applied online:
With position, heads-up. Flop, turn and river prove benign -- I bet representing the high card.
In the B&M table, I will only get called by a guy with 2nd top pair on board (or better). Online, any pair calls -- especially if there was a raise pre-flop.
We've all seen it ... put a guy on a bluff, check-raise, or raise to get a feel, then call it down with worse pair if necessary.
In the casino, there's this underlying shame element that's associated with 1) being a calling station, and 2) calling down a bluff with worse pair. As we all know, when a guy calls with worse pair it often comes with the following disclaiming articulation: "I knew he was bluffing".
Bullshit.
"If you knew he was bluffing, why didn't you check-raise him?"
In the casinos, there's much more done to maintain one's poker Modus Operandi, and then carefully manage what it reveals or conceals about them. Online, people seem less worried about it. Maybe because of the inherent veil of anonymity that's fundamental to being online; maybe because they are distracted by other tasks on or offline; or maybe it's because other than having to deal with a few "OMG", "LOL" or other chatisisms, they can shirk exposure to the implication and gazes of mockery, judgment or criticism. Who knows.
Up next: SuperGirl Decides.
I'm averaging the big blind an hour and can say from my last session that there are no plays I'd have made differently in retrospect. So, that's an excellent sign as I see it -- hopefully, SuperGirl will agree. We'll find out tonight.
I'm getting the impression that I've much to learn from the online game. I might be the kind of player that needs to see, hear, feel my opponent in order to gain my full advantage -- and animated caricatures or icons don't seem to have quite the same effect. I'll offer the following example of a play which has netted me positive yields in the casinos, but heavy losses when applied online:
With position, heads-up. Flop, turn and river prove benign -- I bet representing the high card.
In the B&M table, I will only get called by a guy with 2nd top pair on board (or better). Online, any pair calls -- especially if there was a raise pre-flop.
We've all seen it ... put a guy on a bluff, check-raise, or raise to get a feel, then call it down with worse pair if necessary.
In the casino, there's this underlying shame element that's associated with 1) being a calling station, and 2) calling down a bluff with worse pair. As we all know, when a guy calls with worse pair it often comes with the following disclaiming articulation: "I knew he was bluffing".
Bullshit.
"If you knew he was bluffing, why didn't you check-raise him?"
In the casinos, there's much more done to maintain one's poker Modus Operandi, and then carefully manage what it reveals or conceals about them. Online, people seem less worried about it. Maybe because of the inherent veil of anonymity that's fundamental to being online; maybe because they are distracted by other tasks on or offline; or maybe it's because other than having to deal with a few "OMG", "LOL" or other chatisisms, they can shirk exposure to the implication and gazes of mockery, judgment or criticism. Who knows.
Up next: SuperGirl Decides.
posted by stefNfloyd | 9:44 AM
3 Comments:
You know you've arrived when the comment spammers come around.
hi, i've been reading your blog for a while and had to leave a comment to find out as to what did SuperGirl decide? the suspense is nearly as much as being at the final table of the WPT.
j.
Dude, you can't just start out with such promise and just walk away now. Get back on the goddamn horse already.
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