Sunday, April 6, 2008

60 or 160?

Damn, playing pool is killing my expected value. I put in a short session yesterday. I showed up at the casino at around 8:45 pm, got into a 20/40 game and won 708 in 2 hours and 45 minutes before I got called for the 40/80 game. I won 295 in 45 minutes at the 40/80 game. I told Danny that I wanted to win another $60 bucks so I could be up a thousand on the night. The game was really juicy, and I'm pretty sure that I could have cleaned up, but Danny really wanted to go, and I was up almost 1k. So I tell Danny just let me play this last round and let me see if I can make my 60. This is after the button has already passed me, and I have like 4 or 5 hands to go before i have to post the big blind. I muck all the hands until I am under the gun. I get ace-king, raise it up and everybody folds, making me exactly $60 and putting me up a little over 1k for the night, so far.

Then I played pool with Danny, and dumped off 60 bucks to Danny plus 20 for time so a total of 80 on the night. That two hours at the pool hall only cost me who knows how much from what I could have made at the poker table. Next time if my win goal is 1k for the night and Danny wants to go shoot pool, I'm going to tell him I need to win a hundred extra to cover my pool losses.

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