Forty minutes into Midnight Madness (40/80 for the blinds) tonight and I get pocket aces on the button with a raise and a call at 160 ahead of me. I pop it to 480 and the only caller is the big stack (9K where nobody else is above 3K and most are under 2K). The flop is 
. I bet 800 with another 1,300 behind, he puts me all-in, and shows pocket sixes when I call. 
and 
on the board, so the full house takes me down again.
Daily Archives: Sunday, 2 January 2011
Dialing In?
I’ve played Full Tilt’s Midnight Madness eight times now, mostly in the week since Christmas, with a deep run last Saturday night. Since that win, I’ve been trying to fine-tune a new strategy based on the results of my pre-flop calculator testing.
I see a few possibilities from the results above:
- I don’t have enough data points to accurately gauge the results of the new strategy.
- I’m too distracted by looking up hands on the new tables I’m using to pay attention to the rest of the action and play as well as I had been.
- I’m delivering consistent results but I need to get a better feel for the new strategy and improve it.
- The new strategy sucks compared to the old strategy.
Crowded
Full houses were my bane in a tournament tonight. I called a bet on the turn with a straight in my hand and a set of threes for the bettor, then a queen on the river paired his other card, leaving me with just a bit more than the big blind, which was a couple of hands away from me. I managed to triple up going all-in with T7o and hitting a straight just before I was forced to take whatever I was dealt, but another full house in the next round took me down for good.
Full Tilt’s Midnight Madness was a bust tonight. Only big chip win in the 40 hands I played was with a Mutant Jack, then my king-high flush was beaten by an ace-high flush.
Progress or a breakthrough on the pre-flop odds calculator I’ve been working on (or not) since last Christmas (the original Objective-C files are dated Christmas Eve, 2009). Maybe more on that soon.