{"id":261,"date":"2008-03-31T18:27:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T23:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2008-03-31T18:27:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T23:27:27","slug":"march-2008-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/march-2008-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2008 Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March saw a <strong>radical<\/strong> change in my online poker playing. Heretofore, I was playing in a ton of tournaments, most of them qualifiers, many of the $1 qualifiers. When I would win a seat to move on to the bigger tournament, I would play that. When I wouldn&#8217;t, I would skip the bigger tournament.<\/p>\n<p>While it greatly reduced the amount I was risking, and greatly increased the amount of time played, ultimately, as I reported already, it was simply soaking up too much time (even though I loved every single second of it, even the losses!).<\/p>\n<p>This month, I played in extremely few qualifiers (five or six, I have to squint too hard to be sure at the moment). Instead, on a few occasions (very few), I simply paid the full entry fee for the big tournament, when I was in the mood, and had the time. That included paying the full $215 entry fee for the big Sunday tournament, three times this month. Previously, I had only done it once, when I had the snafu with my Tournament Dollars.<\/p>\n<p>I lost the first two, so I was down a healthy amount. On the third try this month, I came in 47th out of 890 entrants (top 90 got paid). That returned $700 for my $215 entry fee. Coupled with two other smaller cashes in Omaha Hi-Lo tourneys, and I ended the month&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I had to break the paragraph purely for dramatic effect&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>+$1.10<\/strong> (yes, more than a whole dollar, in fact, 10% more than a dollar!)<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, this new strategy rocks! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March saw a radical change in my online poker playing. Heretofore, I was playing in a ton of tournaments, most of them qualifiers, many of the $1 qualifiers. When I would win a seat to move on to the bigger tournament, I would play that. When I wouldn&#8217;t, I would skip the bigger tournament. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[1363,1368],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-poker","tag-gambling","tag-poker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}