Saturday, August 1, 2015

Poker slalom

Although I was never that good a skier, and haven't skied in over a quarter of a century, I have a pretty good idea of how great it must feel to be a great skier. Great skiers prepare for the next gate roughly half the distance between gates ahead of time. They know what's coming, and prepare for it early, so they can parlay that into preparing early for the next thing after that. A successful slalom run has them one step ahead of the mountain the whole way down the mountain - what a rush!

In online poker, the equivalent of preparing early for the coming thing is hovering your cursor over the button you think you're most likely to need to click next. Sometimes you don't even think - you just know. As you move your cursor alternatively to the left and right, and continually end up clicking exactly where you thought you were going to click, you begin to feel the way a champion skier feels. In a word, invincible :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   8-Game   9000  1000       6   180     1    35100


delta: $25,100
Sit and go 8-game $9,000 buy in balance: $111,100
balance: $8,974,773

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