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A Good Day
By Chips_Middle | October 18, 2008
Ok. So I said I’d update on how yesterday’s sessions went. I had good fun playing yesterday. No stress, no long hours, no tilt and easy pickings. I started the day with a short session of Pot Limit Omaha over on iPoker.Â
I have slightly more money on iPoker than on Full Tilt or the other sites, so it means I can actually play the lowest limit PLO games without being under-rolled and therefore have slightly less chance of busting myself. Anyway, 2 tables of $0.05 / $0.10 and an hour and a quarter netted me $24. That’s pretty good considering the stakes.
An over aggressive lag bullied me out of a few small pots and then ran into a hand I wanted to play for stacks. I also hit quite a few of my draws, so while I was moderately happy with my play there is a bit of good fortune in there too. I quit when I started thinking about the money.Â
I was beginning to get anxious if I lost a $2 pot or if I didn’t play a hand for a while and my winnings dribbled down from $25.40 to $23.50. I just can’t snap out of that and when I focus on stupid stuff, my game gets out of whack. So I quit. Good move.
On to Full Tilt and some more of those HORSE Sit n Go’s. The change in game, the Sit n Go format (risks limited to your buyin) and the fact that I’m playing for peanuts all help to snap me out of whatever mental issues I was starting to get on the other table. I’ve banked my $24 win and now I’m playing two $1 + $0.25 Sit n Go’s, so it’s all gravy. Relax, listen to some music and play some poker for fun.
Well, that’s just what I did. I didn’t place in the first one and came first in the other. So, that’s 6 HORSE Sit n Go’s and I’ve got 1 first, 2 seconds and 1 third. I’m liking this game so far. I mean, let’s not get carried away, this is micro stakes poker and a ridiculously small sample. I’m not about to forget that there is luck involved here and that I still don’t have a handle on basic strategy in most of the HORSE games but it’s fun.
After the Sit n Go’s, I decided to see what the cash games were like in HORSE. The smallest tables were $0.25 / $0.50, so I don’t have the bankroll on this site to be playing this but hey, it’s only limit right?
I played HORSE for an hour and 45 minutes.  Was down a bit and then up a bit and then down a bit. Then I started hitting some cards. I ended the session up $21.25, which is a fairly decent win given the stakes.
I think I started with around $90 in the Full Tilt account and after the 2 Sit n Go’s and the cash session, there’s $113 in there now. That’s quite a percentage jump. I suppose, playing outside your bankroll is going to have a big effect one way or the other.
Anyway. Up $41 or so is a good day when your bankroll is barely out of double digits and you are playing the micros. Long may it continue.
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