Stop the Roundabout!
Quick blog post on the cash game from Thursday night as promised. I have had a creeping suspicion for some time that my regular cash game was playing a bit too big for me, and this was confirmed last week.
Whilst I had felt a little under-rolled for a while, I always felt capable of at least playing on equal terms, but the events while I was away in Newcastle last week confirmed that I am getting a bit out of my league bankroll wise. In an 8am finish a couple of weeks ago, one player was in the hole for £3k, whilst another won £2.5k. I gather every stack was £500+ on the table after a couple of hours, and bear in mind this is a £1/£2 game! The multi straddles made the game huge.
After the tournament last week, I decided (unwisely) to play this new beast. Blinds had now risen to £2/£5 with buyins ranging from £200 to £500 or half the biggest stack. To be fair, the rise in blinds actually helped the game, as players were less keen to straddle, so in that respect I enjoyed it.
I whistled through three £500 buy ins in short order. First one down, was running AA into on an all diamond flop - pot was £250 preflop, villain led for £200 and I shoved for £600 total. I then ran KK into AA all in pre-flop. It wasn’t all bad news though, as I cracked Ioannis’ AA with 88 all in pre-flop as well (this was a £600 pot I think). After reaching for my last re-buy, I only started making money after it switched to Omaha and I hit some good flops when we were short handed, and Devski was the unusual significant donor. I ended the session about £750 down I think.
Anyhow, it was clear to me I can’t afford to play this cash game in its current guise. I have enough in the tank to budget significantly for the trip to Harlow to play Kev Q’s cash game, and my home game in December. At least I’ll be playing them on even terms I suppose. Apart from that, I guess I’ll be limited to tournaments for the time being. Onwards and upwards…