OMG
Well, my game is doing well. But, that's a subset of today's post. I got up this morning and did the normal stuff – made coffee, checked out the RSS feed, you know the rest. Funny, but I didn't see the outcome of the 50K HORSE. I'd watched it for a while but watching without the hole cam can get boring. OMG, they are still playing the HORSE.
John Hanson and David Bach and a dealer were there functioning somehow. They looked like the last of their adrenalin had migrated to their arm pits a while back. Big hand just now in Omaha brought John back to contesting it. They are on a break now with 200-400K blinds when they return.
I have to tip my and say, “Your a better man than I, Gunga Din.” It is obvious that you need more than just a game to get to this point. There have been major, extended heads up play before and will be again. To pound back and forth like they are doing is debilitating. You're doing something special when it happens to you. The disappointment of one of these fellows will be massive.
We now transition from $50K to .25-.50. It my little world where I can keep concentration for a 100 or so hands. It is a place where I play on my terms and time. I really don't even look beyond a few hours of play. That's another big difference between what is going on at the Rio and what I call poker.
Knock on Wood! Yesterday was a nice day of play. I managed to get past my old high and now it is all about avoiding the backslide. The table that did it for me is one of those you wish you could always find. It was loaded with gamblers who liked to raise. The reads were simple. The idea for that is to lay in wait. And, the cards cooperated well enough to give me a triple up.
I've also been play a wee bit of HORSE. If there isn't a table or if the waiting list is long at stud, I check out the mixed games. There I feel I have some advantage normally in non-flop games and hopefully am close to reason on the flop side. HORSE is a mix that produces extra strength or weakness in one's play. On those I don't think I have an edge on, I play a pretty ABC game. The thing you can't do is try to overplay the strength side. I see that constantly. That usually when you hit the H. The table turns into experts with level 11+ moves. It is uproarious.
That's it for the morning shout. The real players will be sitting back down to their heads up action and I need to warm my coffee up.
ADDENDUM:
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