Training

I played two really long sessions of live poker the past two days (for play money obv). On Wednesday I ended up playing until 7am and last night the game ended at 6am. I won a little on both occasions, but it was really not much. The money will be used to feed my "live bankroll" for the Austrian Classics, and I have a feeling I'm gonna need every penny. We leave in just 5 days!

I also found a little time for online poker yesterday, which went very fast and very successful. I signed up for a $200 HU SNG and an opponent joined me within seconds. The first hand was dealt and as I was contemplating what to do, he typed: "Mach!" That seemed pretty impatient to me, so I asked him: "?" He replied "Ich will spielen." Alles klar. These are the guys who you want as opponents.

To make things even sweeter, his favorite trick was to overbet the pot. That made my strategy simple...wait for a decent hand and gobble him up. I did exactly that, winning the first game and challenging him to a revenge. He accepted and so we opened another $200 HU SNG. I could tell he was pissed, because he open-shoved the very first hand. It didn't take me too long to finish him off again, and so we began the third match. I flopped a flush and he open-shoved his top pair within minutes of the match starting, so this one didn't last too long either.

He said he only had $100 left in his account so we would need to step down limits in order to continue playing. I had other things to do anyways, so I let him keep his final $100. Usually, I would feel kinda bad taking people's money like this. However, he told me was a 24 year old banker from Duisburg, so I knew he wouldn't be begging for change for his next deposit. Everyone antes up with the knowledge that they can lose what they put on the table. If you can't handle losing your buy-in (or multiple times your buy-in), then you are probably in the wrong game.