{"id":29,"date":"2007-04-30T15:01:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T20:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2007-10-02T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T20:14:09","slug":"april-poker-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/30\/april-poker-update\/","title":{"rendered":"April Poker Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m not likely to be playing tonight, I can post my April Poker results now.<\/p>\n<p>I invested (risked) a total of $352 during the month. I played in 24 tournaments. 16 were 1-table Hold&#8217;Em tourneys for $11 each, and 8 were multi-table Omaha Hi\/Lo tourneys for $22 each. Without attempting to, I ended up spending exactly the same amount on 1-table Hold&#8217;Em as I did on multi-table Omaha.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line was ugly: -$94.80 for the month. Clearly, this month, I am glad I wasn&#8217;t doing this for a living. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>That said, I actually played well this month, and better than I&#8217;ve been in a while. I&#8217;ve learned that no one wants to hear about &#8220;bad beats&#8221; and &#8220;bad luck&#8221;, and honestly, it doesn&#8217;t bug me when it happens to me anywhere near what it used to, so I don&#8217;t even have the need to &#8220;get it off my chest&#8221; like I used to. Suffice it to say that there were a few key plays that made the difference between a plus month and a minus one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a highlight of the month: The multi-table Omaha games average around 80 players with the top 10 getting prize money. Out of the 8 that I played, I only made the money once. I came 7th, and received $110 for my $22 in that one. That said, I also finished 13th once, and 12th once, so I am getting close frequently enough that it&#8217;s not a waste to be playing in these tourneys.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, once I get started on poker I can write forever, I&#8217;ll leave it at that. Last statistic is that I played those 24 tourneys over 11 days, so that&#8217;s still 19 days this month where I didn&#8217;t play a single second of poker. Gotta retire soon, so I can get my playing time up. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m not likely to be playing tonight, I can post my April Poker results now. I invested (risked) a total of $352 during the month. I played in 24 tournaments. 16 were 1-table Hold&#8217;Em tourneys for $11 each, and 8 were multi-table Omaha Hi\/Lo tourneys for $22 each. Without attempting to, I ended up [&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":[4,12,2,18],"tags":[1363,1368],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","category-gambling","category-2","category-poker","tag-gambling","tag-poker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","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=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}