Coping with loss at the 10/20 limit game |
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Posted Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:42 am GMT by General Sal
Well, this post is somewhat dedicated to the previous "Coping with Loss" post. Someone had joked how the post was deceptive... looks like someone was crying about the loss of a loved one/family member, but instead it was the typical gripe of losing $50 online instead of the usual $50.
I found myself at the Mirage playing 10/20 with Carson... a somewhat painful night as I'd lost $300! At points, I was back up about $50. (I initially bought in with $500... five stacks of red cheques.) On night number two, I was up $100 and felt confident that I'd get the last $200 back, but then I hit a wall. I ended up losing $450! Geez $750 in a period of 7 hours total in two sessions. That's the 10/20 game. There's only four things that cheered me up.
1. It was mainly money from the 4/8 game, so it wasn't my own personal money I'd worked for.
2. $750 is nearly 38 big bets. In any given night, you can expect to lose or win 10 to 20 big bets. Fifty on a really bad night. I cut my losses, so I just had losing nights.
3. I feel enlightened. Given a proper bankroll, I know I can beat these guys. I'm pretty strong on my reads. (I folded top pair queens with a king kicker against Carson and two other callers. I knew Carson made some kind of play in the back, but the other two players couldve handled me. He had flopped two pair!)
4. A little ha-ha... later in the night on night 2, I was watching Carson and Adam bet it up on the roulette wheel. There, I got picked up by a really cute girl who turned out to be a "part time dancer" who goes by the stage name "London". I drove her home... we'll leave it at that for the forum members. If you're not lucky at cards, you could be lucky at other parts in life.
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Posted Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:21 am GMT by JohnnyCache
So . . . 10/20 is the line where chicks start to notice what a slick-ass pro you are? :D
I'll have to work my way up 
Posted Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:31 pm GMT by General Sal
Yeah, man, they can't look up to you when they see you playing the 2/4 limit game. Especially, whey they're playing the 4/8 table.
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