Still Looking for My "Fu"
I played for about an hour 3-tabling Pacific Poker .25/.50 limit on Saturday night. It was very fishy, and I never hit the big hands that you need to take the big pots where 4 players go to showdown. I quit down about 10 BB. Then I got a wild hair to play some $3/6, so I jumped on one of the Pacific Royal Flush Jackpot tables. Before each hand you have the option of chipping in 50 cents toward the RF jackpot. I guess if it hits, those players who contributed win. Thing is, there's a little spade icon by each players name that becomes red or green to show who paid the 50 cents for the RF jackpot. As its hugely -EV to pay 50 cents extra every hand, you may as well post a sign the says "sucker" on your name if your spade turns green before every hand. I had 3 at my table.
My very fist hand I got a free look from the BB holding 94o, and flopped trips. Took down a decent pot. Limped in from the SB with T8s, flopped a T and a 4-flush. Turned my flush and got paid off again. Up 10 BB, I punched out after 1 orbit.
I did some work on the forums and site for a while, then went to Absolute. I saw a looser than normal $3/6 table there, and slid in. I played about 100 hands, having a big U-shaped session, down then back to even. When I was back to within one BB, I cashed out.
In the light of a new day, I can see that this was not indicative of a good attitude toward poker. At Pacific $3/6, I had a very beatable table, and I quit it because I was up and was afraid to give it back. Scared money that I won? WTF is that? Then at Absolute, I got down froma few of the reasons you don't win all the time: my QQ ran into KK, and a couple of hands that were marginal favorites on the flop, didn't hold up. Boo-friggity-hoo, happens all the time to anyone that plays regularly. Still, it had me feeling getting steamed, and then determined to get even. Then quitting once I was. Not the right mindset for the grinding game.
So, I am still questing for my "Fu". Hope to find it one day.