"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- unknown

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

delusions of grandure
February 21, 2006 - 6:02 pm

my first dabbling was in 2/4 limit. not what i thought i was getting into.. i thought it was a pot limit game. oh how chance can be kind sometimes. i turned $60 into about $120.

later that day i came back and said i want no limit.. you know, the game they play on tv. the guy was only too happy to tell me it cost $50 to buy in and i could sit right over there..

i sat. i felt.. terribly out of sorts. my confidence from my early doubling up suddenly gone. why? well in just one hand i could $50. limit poker, which i've hardly ever played.. makes it hard to lose much -- or win much on any given hand. it's more controlled.

no limit is the glory game.. the game on tv. the game people dream of playing and winning huge sums of money.

needless to say, i lost my $50 pretty quick.. which isn't hard to understand as just to see the flop often cost at least $10. i rebought. i lost. i rebought again. i lost again. Now down $150 for the game.. but only $30 thanks to my earlier limit play.

i left.. for a while. events transpired. i came back late in the evening to play limit again..

this time i sat with $100 and was up as high as $150. about half an hour before i left, the game changed.. four or so people left.. and a group of four friends came in. as soon as they sat down, i said to myself.. i should go. my good luck was gone and i knew it. perhaps not luck.. my time was up...

i stayed. i played. i didn't play well. i left with $120 again.. just down $10 for the weekend. though if i take out the no limit fubar.. and i'm up $80. i like to look at it that way, i'm sure you understand.

sure i did some other gambling, but nothing of note...

i think, including expenses, i was "lost" $40. why so little? food was covered.. booze (what little i drank) was covered.. didn't buy anything to bring back.

anyway, the whole reason this was to say the one good thing that came out of vegas was playing limit holdem for money and doing well. i played on pokerstars last night.. and turned $50 into $138.

delusions of grandure run rampent.