good week in reno
last day of what has been a really good week here in reno. the shows have been just great, though the week day crowds were fairly small, c.d. sales went well and made over a grand at the poker tables. dat's a good week!
about two months ago i went through a very discouraging losing streak and i had to re-evulate my game and, as a result, i went back to SUPER tight and it has paid off quite handsomely. i had become too tricky, too loose, too willing to draw and it cost me. my theory of hold-em has always been (though i didn't always follow it....because i am an idiot...but that is another story) play tight and aggressive and when you have the hand bet it big and let the fools pay you off. now this probably wouldn't work at some of the larger no limit games but at the 1-2 it is, as far as i am concerned, the way to make money on a regular basis. i have had people tell me that if i am too tight then when i do come into a hand with a raise that everyone will fold. wrong. the good players will get out of my way but i am not really trying to beat the good players, i am trying to get the fool at the table to pay me off...and they will....and do.
for example: i am on the big blind and there are 5 callers before it gets to the button who raises to 15 dollars which was a fairly big raise at this table. i look down to find two red aces and i take the bet up to 55 dollars hoping to either a. take the 28 dollars already in the pot or isolate the button so it is just he and i. surprisingly one of the early callers does just that; call. the button folds. the flop comes ace of spades and the 9-ten of clubs. i bet 120 dollars into the pot which puts the other guy all in if he calls...which he does. i don't know what he had since he never showed and threw his cards into the muck. i did everything except show my cards...how could he have not known i had aces?
that particular scenerio happened a couple of times over the course of this week; i would raise big with big pairs and would be called and then i would hit and bet big and was called over and over. i had one of those weeks where i got good cards, good flops and got paid off. three of the days i was more or less card dead and won small amounts each day but the other three days have been where the big profit came.
this has been happening for me as well in vegas at the mgm grand poker room. i usually play at mandalay bay but it was there that i had the losing streak and so i changed rooms.
as i have said over and over again, i am no expert at no limit hold-em but i am a winning player and that can only be said by less than 10% of all the poker players according to what i have read and i would say that is true by watching thousands of games over the last 18 years. most players at the levels i play are not very good. they gamble way too much and make bad calls over and over. even the people whom i see play all of the time at the rooms in vegas are, for the most part, too loose. loose will get cha if you hang around long enough. a good number of these people are retirees and poker is their vice or hobby as the case may be. but here, once again, i am a bottom feeder, i play 1-2 no limit with a 200 dollar buy in; i am not grazing in the fields where the lions lay in wait...nor do i ever want to go play the big boys since i am sure they would beat my brains out. i am not looking to make a living, i am looking to supplement my living.
oh well, had to write something about anything other than politics.
see some of you in san antonio next week. come on out and we will rock and roll.
about two months ago i went through a very discouraging losing streak and i had to re-evulate my game and, as a result, i went back to SUPER tight and it has paid off quite handsomely. i had become too tricky, too loose, too willing to draw and it cost me. my theory of hold-em has always been (though i didn't always follow it....because i am an idiot...but that is another story) play tight and aggressive and when you have the hand bet it big and let the fools pay you off. now this probably wouldn't work at some of the larger no limit games but at the 1-2 it is, as far as i am concerned, the way to make money on a regular basis. i have had people tell me that if i am too tight then when i do come into a hand with a raise that everyone will fold. wrong. the good players will get out of my way but i am not really trying to beat the good players, i am trying to get the fool at the table to pay me off...and they will....and do.
for example: i am on the big blind and there are 5 callers before it gets to the button who raises to 15 dollars which was a fairly big raise at this table. i look down to find two red aces and i take the bet up to 55 dollars hoping to either a. take the 28 dollars already in the pot or isolate the button so it is just he and i. surprisingly one of the early callers does just that; call. the button folds. the flop comes ace of spades and the 9-ten of clubs. i bet 120 dollars into the pot which puts the other guy all in if he calls...which he does. i don't know what he had since he never showed and threw his cards into the muck. i did everything except show my cards...how could he have not known i had aces?
that particular scenerio happened a couple of times over the course of this week; i would raise big with big pairs and would be called and then i would hit and bet big and was called over and over. i had one of those weeks where i got good cards, good flops and got paid off. three of the days i was more or less card dead and won small amounts each day but the other three days have been where the big profit came.
this has been happening for me as well in vegas at the mgm grand poker room. i usually play at mandalay bay but it was there that i had the losing streak and so i changed rooms.
as i have said over and over again, i am no expert at no limit hold-em but i am a winning player and that can only be said by less than 10% of all the poker players according to what i have read and i would say that is true by watching thousands of games over the last 18 years. most players at the levels i play are not very good. they gamble way too much and make bad calls over and over. even the people whom i see play all of the time at the rooms in vegas are, for the most part, too loose. loose will get cha if you hang around long enough. a good number of these people are retirees and poker is their vice or hobby as the case may be. but here, once again, i am a bottom feeder, i play 1-2 no limit with a 200 dollar buy in; i am not grazing in the fields where the lions lay in wait...nor do i ever want to go play the big boys since i am sure they would beat my brains out. i am not looking to make a living, i am looking to supplement my living.
oh well, had to write something about anything other than politics.
see some of you in san antonio next week. come on out and we will rock and roll.
posted by Ron Shock | 6:22 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Ron,
I was at your show on the thanks giving night at the Tropicana hotel. You were really good. I didn't have high expectations but your bit was a VERY nice surprise for me.
Also, it is interesting to learn that you like to play texas holdem. I wish I had a chance to play with you at the same table while I was in Vegas.
Soner
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