PlatKat.com: Technical Difficulties

Monday, December 27, 2004

Technical Difficulties

I'm trying to decide whether it would be worth it to carry over all of my Big 10s from the days of yore. Angelfire makes it really hard to do, as I can't just transfer all of the files from that directory to a local folder. So this is half a technical difficulty and half just me deciding whether to bite the bullet and manually do it. Not much is going on here right now, so I think I'll try it.

Also, I have a bunch of friends with live journals who aren't linked on here right now. Should I link them? Live journals are like blogs with training wheels, but my friends write some cool (or at least amusingly spastic) stuff sometimes. Should I link to them even if they can't link to me?

Is anything worth any of the time I spend on it??? I am so close to going home to play poker for the rest of the day.

Last night, I won two single-table tournaments for a net gain of $195. However, I must begrudgingly mention that in between those two tournaments, I lost about $60 playing structured.

I need to stop playing structured.

Honestly, I've either won or placed in almost all of the last 10 tournaments I've played. It should be my natural game choice. But I've always been able to hold my own playing structured and can usually make around $100/night. Compared to tournaments, open-ended structured games offer more immediate gratification.

But when I have a bad night, things just SUCK. It's really easy to get caught in hands that I shouldn't be in and not be able to bounce back as quickly. As I've said before, the lost money is just part of it. My damaged ego is the real problem.

I've never put any more on the table than it would cost to enjoy a night on the town, so I haven't felt the negative monetary effects of playing a bad streak of structured poker. But man, just the fact that I lost can put a damper on my entire evening, and possibly my next day.

When I win a tournament, I remember that I'm good at this, and enjoy it. And it's not about luck, but implementing the right strategy. There is also a proven strategy to winning structured games, but I've found it to be less reliable. Even when you factor in the types of people playing and the betting limit on each round, it's still hard to tell who is serious and who is screwing around. With 10 people in the game and several new people constantly rotating in and out, I guess it's obvious that I'm not going to be able to read everyone, or establish a table personality for my opponents to misread. Maybe what I love best about tournaments is the elimination process.

On that note, I think I'm gonna add some Big 10s. We'll see how it goes.

posted by platkat @ 11:54 AM