Despite strong personal and politico-philosophical reservations regarding the use of twitter and related phenomena, I have temporarily handed in my Neo-Luddite membership card and will experiment with tweeting during live tourneys.  Unfortunately, it is clearly the most efficient method.  And so I am dragged, figuratively kicking and screaming, into the 21st century, less than a decade behind the rest of you.

The spam problem that forced comments to be disabled has also been taken care of.

Onto poker matters. Triple Draw is fun.  I’d forgotten how refreshing it is learning a new game and getting back to the basic joy of poker where you’re  paying attention, hypothesising, adapting.  Before everything becomes routine and the greatest everyday challenge you face is coming out of a semi-somnambulant auto-pilot mode on the too few occasions when you need to.

I’ve gone from not really wanting to play the 8-game event to really looking forward to it.

Initial thoughts after roughly 2 hrs of single table td play.  234 is much stronger than I initially thought it would be.   While I’m snapping light after 3rd draw when I should be, I tend to call down multi-draw pats too light.  This is a general poker flaw I have where I tend to incorrectly assume I’m being played back at more frequently than is actually the case.  Randoms are rarely as creative as I give them credit for.

hand to finish

PokerStars Game #29609273553:  Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball Limit ($5/$10) – 2009/06/21 2:57:54 ET
Table ‘Mieke’ 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Master205 ($111 in chips)
Seat 2: InkeiSinsuke ($103 in chips)
Seat 3: DLP44 ($564 in chips)
Seat 4: TeddyFSB ($215 in chips)
Seat 5: Summit ($204 in chips)
Seat 6: spence79 ($156 in chips)
TeddyFSB: posts small blind $2
Summit: posts big blind $5
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to spence79 [3c 8d Ad 2c 9d]
spence79: raises $5 to $10
Master205: folds
InkeiSinsuke: folds
DLP44: folds
TeddyFSB: folds
Summit: calls $5
*** FIRST DRAW ***
Summit: discards 3 cards
spence79: discards 1 card [Ad]
Dealt to spence79 [3c 8d 2c 9d] [Qh]
Summit: checks
spence79: bets $5
Summit: calls $5
*** SECOND DRAW ***
Summit: discards 2 cards
spence79: discards 1 card [Qh]
Dealt to spence79 [3c 8d 2c 9d] [3s]
Summit: checks
spence79: bets $10
Summit: calls $10
*** THIRD DRAW ***
Summit: discards 1 card
spence79: discards 1 card [3s]
Dealt to spence79 [3c 8d 2c 9d] [2s]
Summit: bets $10
spence79: calls $10
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Summit: shows [2h 4d 8s 8h 6s] (Lo: a pair of Eights)
spence79: shows [3c 8d 2s 2c 9d] (Lo: a pair of Deuces)
spence79 collected $69 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $72 | Rake $3
Seat 1: Master205 folded before the Draw (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: InkeiSinsuke folded before the Draw (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: DLP44 (button) folded before the Draw (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: TeddyFSB (small blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 5: Summit (big blind) showed [2h 4d 8s 8h 6s] and lost with Lo: a pair of Eights
Seat 6: spence79 showed [3c 8d 2s 2c 9d] and won ($69) with Lo: a pair of Deuces

The river is obviously a snap-call.  I’m unsure of the turn bet.  I’m a card ahead in pos but my hand seems marginal and I don’t feel my FE is high against this opponent.