Looking Ahead

So this month I'm trying a different strategy. I'll play two weeks out of the month, but on the days I play I'll be at the tables all day. If I play 14 days in February, 10 hours a day, that'll be 140 hours. That's 31 hours more than I played in January.

If anyone is coming into town, let me know when you're coming, cause it's always easier for me to play long sessions when I have a friend at the table.

I just got a complaint from a blog reader that I still haven't analyzed John's game as I wrote I probably would. Go back and note the use of the word "probably." I decided not to do that because I'll be playing lots of cards with him and it's dumb to let him know my line on his play. We play hard against each other.

But I can write a little, and I'll be oversimplifying. It is important to have a balanced game and John illustrates this. He plays most hands defensively, from behind. He will call a pot-sized bet on the flop with top boat or a straight draw. He will call a preflop raise with AA or 67. Those who don't know him often bet their stacks off to him when he has the Brass Brazilians. Those who do know him often give him free cards when he's drawing cause they've watched him liquidate too many stacks by checking the nuts. Of course he gives away free cards that beat him. But he usually gets away from hands when that happens. He isn't a calling station, and I don't see calling stations cashing out $4,200 off one buy-in in a $200 capped $1-2 NL game.

Party on.