Father's day started with a nice breakfast prepared by my daughter. It was a great start to my day. Later driving up to Tulalip casino I was filled with optimism, which would later shatter on the ground. The first hand on our newly started table was an easy fold for me, but frustrating when I would have rivered the nut full house against 2 players. The next hand I lost $20 on a better starting hand. Ultimately I would buy in 4 times and cash out with only one buy in. The $100 high hand was also elusive as I posted one early, only to get a bigger one later which was a tie with another player. It is not often that high hands chop, particularly full houses as it is usually straights. Our shared high hand quickly fell as the 2nd table kept posting ridiculously better hands. Think straight flushes, quads and big full houses.
I lost my enthusiasm and was running stone cold with a minor headache developing when I finally gave up after about 6 hours of play. I am definitely coming to the conclusion that this game is pretty unbeatable due to the high rake. The only players that seem to consistently win are the ultra-rocks who will only play A/A/2/3 double suited type hands. I realize that is a winning style but really not "fun" and not too profitable either. If I am going to grind it out would like to play for a bigger profit or skip the live action and do the tournaments.
I lost my enthusiasm and was running stone cold with a minor headache developing when I finally gave up after about 6 hours of play. I am definitely coming to the conclusion that this game is pretty unbeatable due to the high rake. The only players that seem to consistently win are the ultra-rocks who will only play A/A/2/3 double suited type hands. I realize that is a winning style but really not "fun" and not too profitable either. If I am going to grind it out would like to play for a bigger profit or skip the live action and do the tournaments.
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Well blah. Your Father's Day should have been much for fun at the table. Phooey. Back to tournaments!
As for high hands - you will get a kick out of this. On Mondays (during certain hours) the Moose is running a promotion of $100 high hands every 30 minutes. There is no qualifying hand but usually a full house or quads wins the $100. Yours truly got a 9-high flush - not a straight flush - just a regular old flush that held up for over 20 minutes and won the $100. Isn't that nuts? Miguel tried to beat me on the very last chance when he flopped a set but the board didn't pair so I was good.
If God had wanted us to play Omaha, he wouldn't have given us Hold'um.
Love Dave Robertson's comment. Hope things are going better!!
I've been playing on other people's money for over 1 month now. I can't ask for any better than that. Saturday I took 3rd in the 10am at the Moose and 1st in the 3pm at Jokers (2nd week in a row that I won it). I took a 3-way split in the 10am at the Moose on Sunday. Also got quad jacks playing the cash game. Very good weekend.
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