Friday, February 5, 2010

First Few Days on Full Tilt

I finally deposited on Full Tilt a few days ago after confirming with their email support that I could get the full bonus. This wasn't clear because the eChecks initial deposit limit is $100, but I explained to them that I'm going to be depositing much more than that later and they are usually willing to credit the rest of the bonus to an account in these circumstances. Also, my last rakeback payment came in on Cake so I requested a check for my entire account balance. I'm pretty excited to receive it and curious about what it will look like. I'm also kind of anxious about whether or not my bank will actually accept it, since I hear it's pretty standard for poker sites to use sketchy checks from small disreputable foreign banks.

I've been grinding up my initial $100 mostly at the Rush Poker tables and I've been running really hot and I'm up to about $600 now. Rush Poker is amazing. It's just so easy to put in volume and clear out bonus and grind Iron Man. It's also easier for me to process cognitively than multitabling. I'm still not sure how it compares to normal multitabling in terms of game EV, since I'm not really sure if the Rush attracts more grinding regs like myself or more action-junkie fish. Also a factor is that my HUD doesn't work correctly on Rush, and my HUDless handreading skills are pretty useless in Rush since opponents change every hand. I'm going to give more thought to these factors before making a decision to switch mostly or possibly even exclusively to Rush.

This is the one massive instance of rungood that represents basically all of my winnings on FTP so far. The flop seemed pretty much perfect and I was more or less hoping to get it in, and when I saw that big bet and call I was basically fistpumping. But then I get 3bet and 4bet all-in by these two superdeepstacks and when the action comes back to me I'm actually strongly considering a fold, even getting better than 3:1 on my call. My fear at this point is that there's a pretty good chance that my pair-and-draw is up against both a stronger made hand and a stronger draw. I think that a good percentage of the time, one of these guys has AA/KK/a set and the other has Ahxh. I made the call, which I think is ultramarginal at best, figuring that sometimes I'm up against two worse draws and I'm ahead and sometimes I'm up against two made hands and all my flush outs are good, but I don't know how frequently those situations occur compared to being totally dominated. In retrospect, I think I'm seldom if ever actually ahead here after a UTG+1 preflop raiser make a fullpot cbet in a 4-way pot on the flop and shoves over a call and checkraise, and with two deepstacks getting it in ahead of me I don't think my non-nut flush draw gives me clean outs that often either.

What it really comes down is that I may not be psychologically capable of folding such a "pretty" hand in a 3-way pot, even given the strong evidence from the action ahead of me that I'm crushed. Leak?

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