The donk poker game from around the block | Underground Poker
So, as I said in my previous post, I have a new delicious game going on around the block. This game is full of tightass monkeys who do not even have the slightest clue about playing poker and winning money. They are beautiful birdies ripe for Adam’s picking. The first night I was a guest at their house, I pretended I was also just new at poker. And I let them feel that I thought they were quite experienced. I also made some idiot moves, listened to their advice, and when I made a good move, I concealed it in a mix of ‘luck’ and randomness.
As in a lot of other areas in life, this false first impression may last for weeks, months. Even if I do not keep it up anymore and play like a real pro, their opinion of me might still stay unchanged, at least for a significant amount of time.
This first evening, I lost maybe some 5 dollars, and gave it a twist that I was really lucky and next time I would bring more money to lose, ‘since I had to learn so much more from them’. I was an instant hit and they quickly invited me for more, lets see what that will bring.
Adam is going down under | Online Omaha Poker
So, it has been a tough poker time, with a lot of bad beats and disappointments. And it is official, Adam is going underground. No more online poker, from now on I will only play real life poker in small poker rooms around my hometown here in Europe. I have a solid game going on at Mr. Tightass’s place. It is a great room full of skill. Every Saturday I go there full of excitement. Sometimes I go home broke, sometimes with a large profit that will get me through the next week for my large bankroll funded appetite.
Why, do you ask, are you leaving online poker? Well, it has been too swingy for me, and although it has been a positive thing overall, since I won more than I lost, emotionally it was just too hard for me to lose more than 1000$ in one evening. Though I always got it back by the end of the week, winning 1000$ isn’t worth as much joy as losing 1000$, or even 500$, an emotional money-related deficit quickly builds itself when the swings are as high as they are in Omaha Poker.
So this is the new deal, making a small profit that I can live off, and enjoy life to the fullest, and what do we, poker players, enjoy more than 10 straight hours of poker in a smoky room full of the smell of sweaty poker corpses? At least it is much more enjoyable than playing 8 tables at once on a tiny computer screen.
I’m also looking forward to the new Wednesday game around the block, seems full of total newbies and ripe for Adam’s picking. Haven’t you already had that feeling, the feeling that you almost feel guilty playing the poor bastards and go home with huge profits, but not extremely satisfied? Almost as if it was too easy, almost as if you rather had lost? Well, try to overcome it, because otherwise you will be staring at an empty bankroll soon enough.
See you soon,
Adam
Poker Skill Reaching a Climax | On Line Poker
These last few months and in fact the last few years, poker websites, poker statistics and poker strategy guides have been popping up all over the place. As a result of this the overall poker skill is soaring to the heavens, poker heavens. Or maybe hell, poker hell. Because really, who likes it when everyone around them wins? No room for your personal glory and especially, no room for you winning any money! A few days ago I tried my luck at some very low stakes tables on Party Poker because I got some free money. I thought it would easy, winning some cents while playing quite loose and aggressive. But the truth was that I lost 10 buyins (all for the very large amount of $2) in split seconds!
I pondered a bit after that, and came to the conclusion that it would be very difficult to earn any money on the tables, even if you were in fact, better than the rest. Since 5% of your profit gets “stolen” by the house, you will need to be at least 5% better than the rest to be able to play without losing money. In the early days of on line poker, this was quite easy. There were a lot of times where you had a 20% edge on your opponent or even more. You had crazy donks that played 95% of their hands and always drawed to their gut shot straights or runner runner flushes while at the same time they held on to their underpair 22 hand while you had a royal flush. Well, I got bad news for all you new poker players out there, those times are over.
Best of luck,
Adam Breit