Playing any 3

After over a year away, I decided to load up at the Party/Empire tables the other night. The main idea being to be able to do player to player transfers to award rake commissions for our Empire players. Since they awarded me a pending bonus even though I didn't use a bonus code, and I had $100 left after paying rebates, I set out to clear it. Who can turn down free $$ ??

Nothing has changed. The ante structure is still awful, with .25 for the .50/1 tables, where I began clearing my bonus. A 50% ante??? It's almost correct to play any three cards for the .25 forced bet, since by the time the other 7 call stations have tossed in their two bits, the pot odds will be roughly 15-1.

The players are still awful. Any 3 cards to start and inside straight draws are monster hands. At first you would think this would be profitable, but when you consider the odds they're getting for suckout hands, the fish are almost playing correctly.

Anyway...halfway through the bonus hands and practically dead even overall, I've decided to deposit a bit more so I can at least move up to 1/2. The ante is a quarter there as well, which is still high, but at least the call stations will be making a bigger mistake by playing any 3 cards.

I can't wait till Absolute's 1/2 and 2/4 tables are going 24-7. I love that place and have about $300 in bonus money I need to release.

The pitfalls of multi-tabling 7 Card Stud

Play one table, make money! Play 2 tables and double it! Hmm...when much of the strategy of a particular poker game involves reading and remembering other players' porch cards, this might not be such a good idea. Especially given my wife's assessment of my memory...

I've had success playing 2 tables of 7 card stud, but tonight wasn't pretty. At one point I was -50 BB's at each. I finished the evening -$50, so I was pretty happy with that. Also cleared $20 in Absolute Poker pending bonus money, so that helped to ease the pain.

On other fronts, I'm very much looking forward to our private tournament satellite, Sunday, 1-9-05, at 2 p.m. CST. Our rake rebate program has drawn some excellent players and site members, and the social aspects of this thing are more rewarding for me than anything else...especially since it's my money sweetening the prize pool ;] Nothing like playing for the goal of only losing half the prize pool eh?

I should add a resolution to my list: By the end of 2005, I'd like to see our Absolute Addict Tournament grow into a nice private multi-table tournament with poker-strategy.org being able to add hundreds of dollars added to the prize pool ...

2005 - New Years Resolutions

1. Break $20,000 in online poker winnings.
2. Give away over $20,000 in rake rebates from my poker strategy site.
3. Win at least a few single table tournaments in Tunica.
4. Graduate from squeezing a heavy duty stress ball to simply chewing on a toothpick while playing online poker.
5. Not throw the stress ball through my office window.

Those should make for a challenging year. Maybe I'll edit and add a few later...(or maybe delete a few by February - they don't count if you delete them in the first month right??)