I like the idea of taking shots, I really do. The problem is, I have never pulled it off successfully outside of my very first foray into Poker (and even then, I actually did lose my first session).

Today, I played the $9/$18 limit game. One thing I didn't know was that the game is played with a full kill, so buying in with one bullet (a single rack of $3 chips) was probably not enough, because I didn't win a single kill pot, but I sure ended up with a lot of second best hands that decimated my stack. Also ran Kings into Aces, Tens into Kings and Aces, and other such mishaps, but I did play several hands very badly. For one thing, one leak I still have in limit Hold'em is playing small pairs from up front. It's not like NL where you have huge implied odds, unless it literally gets limped around like every time. Also, I probably overdefended my blind given that they take a $4 drop regardless (but wow, the rake is soooooo much less significant than at $4/$8 it's astonishing). So, there was $300 down the drain. Yecchhh. Between that and Vegas, bye-bye stimulus check. Meh.

Also just for fun I played some $0.50/$1 Triple Draw on Stars yesterday and annihilated the game for like 40 bets. That's a fun game to play on occasion. Hold'em is getting more and more boring. I may make it my mission in Vegas not to play in a single Hold'em game if I can avoid it. The game I really want to play in is the $5/$10 Omaha-8 game at Mirage. I heard they have some low stakes O8 at Venetian also, so I may check that out.

Not too upset about the losing session, as a lot of it was pretty standard, and that game is majorly beatable. I may take another shot again later, but not soon likely.

I really think I need to learn this limit stuff...

I don't really understand how you find NL boring but I guess for each is own.



Good luck. You are defiantly one of he people who can easily make it in poker if you just put your mind into it.

Totally agree MrDarling. I don't know you personally, but you always seem to be very knowledgeable and (probably more importantly) logical with your thought-process and hand analysis.