{"id":45,"date":"2007-06-04T21:45:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T02:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-10-02T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T20:12:07","slug":"june-poker-roll-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/june-poker-roll-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"June Poker Roll Continues :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, like I said, I can’t resist sharing<\/em> while the good times are rolling.<\/p>\n

I started the day with a $1 (OK, those are really $1.10, but I’ve been rounding in my previous reports) \ud83d\ude09 Omaha Hi-Lo. I play those for fun, since even first place is under $100. Prizes are just as good percentage-wise<\/em>, just not in absolute value.<\/p>\n

What I like about these is that it’s a good time to hone skills against bad players. What I mean is that most people are playing like it’s a freeroll<\/a>, so they play much more loosely. After all, who is afraid to lose $1. I try hard to treat it as a very expensive tourney, and see if I can adjust my style to work against that loose play. It rarely works, but it’s fun. I have come in the money at least once, but like I said, it’s rare…<\/p>\n

Then I played in the $11 Omaha Hi-Lo that I won on Saturday. I finished 30th out of 80. Not that good in other words…<\/p>\n

Then I played in another $1.10 Omaha Hi-Lo, which was a qualifier for the nightly $22 one. I rarely play in that one, but I had a chance to today. I was doing fine, then I got unlucky and it was all over. No complaints.<\/p>\n

Then I entered a $5.50 Omaha Hi-Lo. I was doing really<\/em> well. There were 20 players left, and I was in 7th. I ended up in a hand where I flopped a set<\/a>, the other guy bet, and I called. On the turn, I improved to a full house. He bet, and I called. River looked like it might end up giving us a split, making a possible low for him. He went all-in, I called. The river gave him a higher full house, so I lost. A few hands later, I was out in 20th. They only paid the top 10. Oh well…<\/p>\n

Then I entered the regular<\/em> $22 Omaha Hi-Lo evening tourney. Ironically, my nemesis didn’t enter tonight, which is pretty rare, and he did log on later on, so he was likely just running a little late.<\/p>\n

79 players, top 10 got paid. I had solid cards and played them reasonably well tonight. When I built a nice stack I got a little too conservative. It didn’t hurt me tonight, but it could easily have done so. On one hand, I chose not to risk my stack after I limped and someone with a much smaller stack raised big, and another one called. I would have flopped a set of J’s, and improved to 4 Jacks, and knocked them both out and had a monster stack. Like I said, tonight it didn’t hurt me.<\/p>\n

Long story short, I finished 4th. Since there were fewer players than yesterday, I didn’t make substantially more than I did for my 6th yesterday, but I’m not complaining. I got back $158 for my $22. Woo hoo.<\/p>\n

Winnings for the day: +$116.04. Winnings for the month: +$342.15<\/p>\n

If the roll ends, or I don’t get to play for any reason, I likely won’t write about it. Not because of any shame, but rather I’ve learned that no one likes bad beat<\/em> stories, and certainly no one wants to hear didn’t get to play<\/em> stories either. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, like I said, I can’t resist sharing while the good times are rolling. I started the day with a $1 (OK, those are really $1.10, but I’ve been rounding in my previous reports) \ud83d\ude09 Omaha Hi-Lo. I play those for fun, since even first place is under $100. Prizes are just as good percentage-wise, […]<\/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-45","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\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}