{"id":353,"date":"2011-11-27T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T22:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:49:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:49:19","slug":"in-defense-of-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"In Defense Of Volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Encore Club $10K Guarantee (10,000 chips)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who <em>wouldn&#8217;t<\/em> be stoked to be back for the first running of the game you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the week before<\/a>? I know I was. I was eager for another win and I think I probably let my excitement run a little away with my play, because I got knocked out before the end of the 50\/100 round. \u00a0The TD said he was stacking the table with previous event winners, but the place I lost most of my chips was to my immediate left in seat 9, where my hands kept getting beat by something slightly better, like double-paired <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ace of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"four of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">4<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span><\/span> v double-paired <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ace of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"eight of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">8<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and an ace on the river that killed my pocket pair.<\/p>\n<p><em>45 minutes. -100% ROI. 76th of 82 players.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0221-e1322430803869.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-351\" title=\"20111126 Encore Club $10K\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0221-e1322430803869-1024x621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0221-e1322430803869-1024x621.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0221-e1322430803869-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0221-e1322430803869.jpg 2042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aces Players Club Saturday Freezeout (6,000 chips)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rather than wait two hours for the 10pm game to start up at Encore (and after drinking some of manager S&#8217;s personal Scotch), I went to lick my wounds elsewhere, breaking a personal rule (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">again<\/a>) and getting into the game halfway to the first break. It was a pretty quiet night, and the field was small, but I continued to do something wrong and was out before the break on this one, too. At least I saved myself the add-on for both games.<\/p>\n<p><em>20 minutes. -100% ROI. 16th of 18 players.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0222-e1322430832245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-352\" title=\"20111126 Aces Players Club Freezeout\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0222-e1322430832245-1024x632.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0222-e1322430832245-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0222-e1322430832245-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0222-e1322430832245.jpg 1940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encore Club $10K Guarantee (10,000 chips) Who wouldn&#8217;t be stoked to be back for the first running of the game you won the week before? I know I was. I was eager for another win and I think I probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=353\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49,110,4],"tags":[54,83],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poker","category-live-games","category-no-limit-holdem","category-tournaments","tag-aces-players-club","tag-encore-club"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-5H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5130,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/5130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}