Thursday, October 9, 2008

Cashed again.

Made it to 97th of 3780 in yesterday's $30k Guaranteed. Only good for $50-something. One interesting thing did come out of the whole thing though. I actually used one of the tools Pokerstars provides in a way that I think it was actually meant to be used.

The Hand Replay feature allows you to go through past hands at the table and replay them slightly faster than real-time. It starts with the outcome, and with one click, you're reliving the hand.

I raised from early position with A10o, hoping to really just steal the blinds and antes. I get a push all-in from mp from a player I remembered that had made some bizarre moves before. I madly clicked through the Replayer and looked for any hands where his hole cards were exposed. Saw that his range was pretty wide and made the call.



Looking at the numbers, I'm getting the right price to call, so mathematically it made sense, but sometimes it's good to have a little more info. I don't use Pokertracker or any sort of HUD, so this replayer is actually quite valueable to me.

CT game tonight. I'm still in the top ten, but need to perform well tonight in order to solidify my entrance to the QTOC.

2 comments:

Big Mike said...

"I don't use Pokertracker or any sort of HUD"

Why not?

imthatguy said...

Mostly Mike, because I'm on a Mac, and Pokertracker hasn't gotten their shit together.

I've heard of people managing to make it work through an emulator, but I like things to be streamlined.