My first hand on the site

Hand #1164011298000574: Pebble Beach 11298
Seat 1: eagles3838 (11.15 in chips)
Seat 2: BigRigger (70.70 in chips)
Seat 3: compass (84.20 in chips)
Seat 5: Beavis68 (16.00 in chips)
Seat 6: subotai54 (46.70 in chips)
Seat 7: enginong (24.55 in chips)
Seat 8: wystinky (19.15 in chips)
Seat 9: Mr Genie (25.10 in chips)
Seat 10: silent 1 (6.50 in chips)
enginong: posts small blind $0.25
wystinky: posts big blind $0.50
Beavis68: posts big blind $0.50
Dealt to Beavis68 [ Qc As ]
Mr Genie: folds
silent 1: folds
eagles3838: folds
BigRigger: raises to $1
compass: calls
Beavis68: calls
subotai54: folds
enginong: calls
wystinky: folds
*** FLOP *** [ 8h 5s Qd ]
enginong: checks
BigRigger: bets $4.30
compass: folds
Beavis68: is all in
enginong: folds
BigRigger: calls
*** TURN *** [ 7s ]
*** RIVER *** [ Kd ]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Beavis68 wins $32.80 with Pair of Queens with Ace kicker

My opponent flipped over QJo and lamented how she "knew it" when she called

Others at the table consoled her and told her she was really getting the worst of it tonight

Just like fischman baby

Hand #1165011485000074: Pebble Beach 11485
Seat 1: bkt36 (19.50 in chips)
Seat 2: HooBoy (30.00 in chips)
Seat 3: Kevorkius (65.60 in chips)
Seat 4: Beavis68 (16.75 in chips)
Seat 6: poker gal (15.15 in chips)
Seat 7: allilou (47.95 in chips)
Seat 8: hockeychick (50.00 in chips)
Seat 10: GMAN23 (60.65 in chips)
bkt36: posts small blind $0.25
HooBoy: posts big blind $0.50
Dealt to Beavis68 [ Kd]
Kevorkius: folds
Beavis68: raises to $2
poker gal: folds
allilou: folds
hockeychick: folds
GMAN23: raises to $8
bkt36: folds
HooBoy: calls
Beavis68: is all in
GMAN23: calls
HooBoy: calls
*** FLOP *** [ 9d]
HooBoy: checks
GMAN23: bets $14
HooBoy: folds
GMAN23: returns uncalled bet $14 Gman shows
*** TURN *** [ Ts ]
*** RIVER *** [ 5c ]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Beavis68 wins $48 with Two Pairs, Tens and Fives with Ace kicker

I don't get why you buy-in short all the time.

And I saw you on one of my tables earlier.

Why are you...

1. Buying in short
2. Playing so low
2. Playing Hold'em

Why I

buy short.

I am comfortable playing 24-32bbs, I like it more than buying in full. I also go through periods where I play like crap and this make it less painful. I work full time and have two kids. I play poker for the fun of it. This is fun and helps me clear bonus faster. In theory I would really love to play optimally, I like to discuss hands and find the best plays to make. In the end I just care if my BR is a little bigger at the end of the month. I am not going to work a full day running loss models and yield predictions and then come home and play poker and focus intensely. I used to play a lot of SnGs and MTTs, and SS stacking reminds of the parts of those games I liked the most.

Play so low.

That is pretty funny and is actually a big unknown. I have guarded my BR jealously and have switched games rather than moved up in limits. Also, as I have mentioned ad naseum, I took most of my BR offline last Oct before the NT fiasco hit. I am down to about $1300 which I have split between PS and Cake. When I played the split games the games dried up so much after 1/2 that I never moved up steadily. The games loosened up on FTP quit a bit buy by then my BR was gone.

Play Holdem.

PL Holdem was the first game I ever played. $25PL on party (yeah and 4 years laters I am still playing $50NL).

I have played a lot of NL on party in it's final US days clearing bonuses because the O8b games had gotten so bad. I could four table on party and clear the bonus pretty quickly and averaged about 3ptbb/100.

Now Cake is the only place I have a bonus worth clearing (fuck you UB) so I am playing NL, what else am I going to play? I can't stand limit holdem.