Thursday, October 02, 2008
Poker Room Review - Argosy
So I made a pact with myself that I would'nt blog again until the Huskers had some sort of big win or until I had a winning session at poker.
So I went to Cincinatti a couple weeks back and decided to try out the local gambling scene. They have some casinos about 25 minutes away in some back-water towns in nearby Indiana.
I went to a Riverboat casino call "Argosy". The poker room was surpisingly nice. It had about 17 tables. They were spreading NL 1-3 blinds 300 max through 5-10blinds no max. They also spread some limit games and a 5/10 Omaha8 game. Actually, the whole casino was pretty nice. It's kind of impressive what they can do on a riverboat.
I got on the list for the Omaha 8 game. I was about 6th in line.
While I waited, I played 3/6 limit. I played that game for 5 hours and a seat never came open on the O8 game - I guess it was kind of popular.
Good news. I won $115 at the limit holdem game. I hate to say it, but I think I'm really starting to figure out some pretty good strategies for this low stakes, no-foldem game.
In reality, there is no-foldem preflop, but people fold alot after the flop.
Some keys for me.
1) don't play suited-connectors (i.e., 9h-10h) and little pocket pairs in early position. These hands are garbage. There are just no implied odds when playing limit poker.
2) try to open raise most (~75%) of the pots you play.
3) Go ahead and make really thin value bets on the river - you get called a lot with worse hands
4) Identify the "bluffables" vs. "non-bluffables" and stick with your reads.
5) The sick drawouts are the price you have to pay to play with people who will call mutiple bets chasing a backdoor flush draws or calling with one overcard hoping to hit.
So I went to Cincinatti a couple weeks back and decided to try out the local gambling scene. They have some casinos about 25 minutes away in some back-water towns in nearby Indiana.
I went to a Riverboat casino call "Argosy". The poker room was surpisingly nice. It had about 17 tables. They were spreading NL 1-3 blinds 300 max through 5-10blinds no max. They also spread some limit games and a 5/10 Omaha8 game. Actually, the whole casino was pretty nice. It's kind of impressive what they can do on a riverboat.
I got on the list for the Omaha 8 game. I was about 6th in line.
While I waited, I played 3/6 limit. I played that game for 5 hours and a seat never came open on the O8 game - I guess it was kind of popular.
Good news. I won $115 at the limit holdem game. I hate to say it, but I think I'm really starting to figure out some pretty good strategies for this low stakes, no-foldem game.
In reality, there is no-foldem preflop, but people fold alot after the flop.
Some keys for me.
1) don't play suited-connectors (i.e., 9h-10h) and little pocket pairs in early position. These hands are garbage. There are just no implied odds when playing limit poker.
2) try to open raise most (~75%) of the pots you play.
3) Go ahead and make really thin value bets on the river - you get called a lot with worse hands
4) Identify the "bluffables" vs. "non-bluffables" and stick with your reads.
5) The sick drawouts are the price you have to pay to play with people who will call mutiple bets chasing a backdoor flush draws or calling with one overcard hoping to hit.
