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08.19.08
One Last Thing
posted by Absinthe | 3:00 PM
Wow, what an incredibly lousy run. But more on that later. $545 limit tourney today. Depending on the number of entrants (I’m guessing 130 max) I’m probably going to have to finish in the top three to get unstuck for the month. This is not the sort of outcome about which I am particularly optimistic. Fortunately you do not have to be an optimist to make good decisions - you just have to be an optimizer.
The good thing about a long losing streak - there is a good thing, really - is that it forces you to closely evaluate your play, and ask questions that don’t occur to you when you’re winning. Some of them are moot - early on in the series I pondered broadening my reraising range preflop, for example, since the second raise is the only one that gets any respect from these fields. I decided it was a solid tactical move - and it would have been had I ever gotten hands within that expanded range. I didn’t. Yesterday I played seven hours and worked my way up over triple a starting stack, and never had a starting hand better than 77.
Which leads to questions like, “is there a player out there who could take these cards up against these fields and pull out a win?” The best answer I can come up with, at the moment, is “I hope not.” Which will have to do.
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