The Shark Tank

Now that I think I’ve collected up enough hand histories for my low limit lesson, I went back to 30/60 last night.   Suited selected Brokeback Mountain and I played poker and half-heartedly watched.  I thought I might be put off by a bunch of homoerotic scenes, but it really wasn’t like that at all.  I found the more repressed character interesting and realistic, but I didn’t really think it was that great of a movie.  Perhaps if I had been paying more attention…

Playing poker during the movie went splendidly.  I was up about $1,500 after a couple of hours and very pleased with my play.  I think I might even have been starting to get over-confident.  I went to bed fairly eary and woke up at 3:00am and sat down to play for another hour or so.  I fairly quickly lost $1,550 so my net for the night was -$50.  That was something of a let down!  There was a guy at the table who was perfectly willing to cap the turn with second pair and lots of interesting plays like that, so everyone at the table was experiencing wild swings.  I made some mistakes, giving him too much action with his big hands and overplaying medium pairs, which was a big factor in my losses.  It was fun, though.  At least as much fun as giving away money can be.

Redpill had another meltdown on ITH and got himself permanently banned.  I’ve got a lot of thoughts about his situation that I will probably go ahead and post.  I’m getting a lot of email and PMs asking me about the situation, so I might as while try to put them down once and point people here.

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