GF told me last night that we were invited to go to her friend's birthday dinner the following day and asked if I could meet her at her workplace around 7 PM. I'd balk if it was a Sunday, but on a Satuday? Sure, I can adjust my schedule a bit.
Original plan was to load regular speed games that would finish before ~6, so that meant my last game was supposed to be the $109 Builder. I had added a bunch of other turbos that I normally omit to fill up table space (More on that later) and then a few hours into my grind, she told me that the plans were off. Something about the weather or w/e. Erm, ok. Took a look at the lobby and added a few of the regular speed games back into the grind. One of those games happened to be the $215 Saturday KO.
Ended up FT'ing it, came in 6/9 and there was a glut of average stacks so between the ICM considerations and less fold equity of KO MTTs, I knew I had to be a bit nittier and hope for ladders. Somehow managed to sit on a 15-20 BB stack for the better part of two hours and avoid a confrontation until we were 4-handed.
Given the starting position, super happy with that result. Extra big thanks to the inclimate weather for allowing me the opportunity to click the register button.
Also FT'd/got 5th in the Hot $11, one of the turbos I mentioned earlier.
It's definitely nice to win ~80 buy-ins, but I won't be playing it anytime in the near future for a couple reasons:
1) Importance of Table Space
Think of the literal table space on your monitor as figurative 'decision' space in your brain. Brain can only handle so many decisions before it starts to get tired, and from that point on each decision relies less on logic and more on "feel" or emotion.
2) Low Equity
It's certainly a soft game, but how much money am I passing up by not playing it? Even if I assumed I could add the game without any affect on my other games/decision space, it's not like I'm losing out on a ton of equity.
Let's pretend for a second that I've got a 100% ROI. I don't know if that's true long-term, altho I do have it a tiny sample (~200 games) but for now let's assume that's an accurate indicator of my winrate.
100% ROI: $11
Duration: 5 hours
Hourly rate: $2.25/hour
Could easily make that equity back with one BETTER decision/line in any of my $109s+.
3) That rake, bro
I knew the rake had been raised on sub $22 games, but I didn't recall the exact amount. One of my horses lol'd at me for playing the Hot $11, and said he couldn't believe I'd be willing to pay 12% rake for a turbo.
Had to look it up -- It's actually 11%, but still, he's right. Game is still beatable, but there are so many other better games out there and people (like myself, today) don't seem to have the energy to make a few extra clicks. That extra 1% rake isn't a huge deal if you're a crusher, but if you're someone with a low EV BB, frequently has big swings, and wants to make more consistent income, you should seriously evaluate your game selection.
Okay, that's enough rambling in one post. Be back at it tomorrow.