Different stakes..
I headed down to Keller's last night to work on some stuff. We got his office rearranged, some data for his new web site coming down the pike, talked some about staking and such, and fixed his computers. I also, in the midst of the night, joked about a poker lesson, and he decided to sit me down at a couple of online tables to see how I played.
Two $30/$60 tables and a $100/$200 table.
A little higher than my normal stakes. He asked if I would be nervous playing for those stakes, and I replied that since it wasn't my money, no. I wonder if that made him feel better or worse about the idea.
The $30/$60 table was tight. Super tight. Two to three people to the flop tight. And Aggressive. Super Aggressive. Never an unraised pot preflop aggressive. I had talked to Thomas about how I thought my weakness was in how to play smaller pairs and middle suited connectors and he told me 'Don't worry, at this table you will never have the odds to play those hands.' He was right.
By contrast, the $100/$200 table was super loose aggressive. More people in preflop, still a lot of raising. Post flop the table was more passive, but still pretty loose. All in all, I lost a couple hundred on the $30/$60 table, and won a couple thousand on the $100/$200, all in a span of about 20 minutes before we moved on to other things.
Pretty fun and exciting. I didn't really get to learn a lot, though. Most of the hands we played were really straight forward. "You have pocket Aces, raising is good." or "You have 9/2 offsuit, folding is good." We had a couple hands that I would have played differently where he check called down a hand I would have check folded on the turn, and then for a similar hand check folded the turn same way I would have, and I didn't get to ask him why he called down for one and not the other, as the pot sizes were similar. I look forward to doing this some more tho, as I think it can really help to plug up my game if he can help me out more this way. We shall see.
Tomorrow I am off to Gen Con So Cal! Expect little to no updates for the next few days, sorry. Hope to see some of you there.
Two $30/$60 tables and a $100/$200 table.
A little higher than my normal stakes. He asked if I would be nervous playing for those stakes, and I replied that since it wasn't my money, no. I wonder if that made him feel better or worse about the idea.
The $30/$60 table was tight. Super tight. Two to three people to the flop tight. And Aggressive. Super Aggressive. Never an unraised pot preflop aggressive. I had talked to Thomas about how I thought my weakness was in how to play smaller pairs and middle suited connectors and he told me 'Don't worry, at this table you will never have the odds to play those hands.' He was right.
By contrast, the $100/$200 table was super loose aggressive. More people in preflop, still a lot of raising. Post flop the table was more passive, but still pretty loose. All in all, I lost a couple hundred on the $30/$60 table, and won a couple thousand on the $100/$200, all in a span of about 20 minutes before we moved on to other things.
Pretty fun and exciting. I didn't really get to learn a lot, though. Most of the hands we played were really straight forward. "You have pocket Aces, raising is good." or "You have 9/2 offsuit, folding is good." We had a couple hands that I would have played differently where he check called down a hand I would have check folded on the turn, and then for a similar hand check folded the turn same way I would have, and I didn't get to ask him why he called down for one and not the other, as the pot sizes were similar. I look forward to doing this some more tho, as I think it can really help to plug up my game if he can help me out more this way. We shall see.
Tomorrow I am off to Gen Con So Cal! Expect little to no updates for the next few days, sorry. Hope to see some of you there.
posted by Ray | 10:51 AM
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