Spent about six hours on Wednesday playing on Paradise with some sad results: -35BB. Brutal. And it wasn’t my starting hands, either. I was getting some pretty good cards:

AA, 3x, 100% win, +2/hand
KK, 3x, 33% win, -1.38/hand
QQ, 2x, 0% win, -4.25/hand
JJ, 4x, 25% win, -1.19/hand

TT, 1x, 0% win, -10.75/hand
AQs, 1x, 100% win, +3.13/hand
AJs, 2x, 0% win, -.75/hand
KQs, 2x, 50% win, -.25/hand
AK, 8x, 25% win, -2.27/hand

QJs, 2x, 0% win, -.75/hand
ATs, 2x, 100% win, +5.13/hand
AQ, 3x, 33% win, -.75/hand

Roughly organized according to the Sklansky hands listed in A New Guide to the Starting Hands in Texas Hold’em Poker.
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It’s pretty pathetic, actually. A number of us LA-based bloggers are probably not going to make it to the big pokerfest at Sam’s Town next weekend. Whether it was that sad fact or some incomprehensible desire to drive to the Valley that led us to do it, I don’t know. But when the big hand hit the 8 last night, I found myself sitting with the Film Geek, HDouble, FHWRDH, and some non-blogging guy (NBG) in Film Geek’s NoHo pad.
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