All quiet on the western front

Apologies things have been quiet on the blog front. Last weekend I had a welcome break from poker spending the weekend in the coastal town of Kiama which is around 90 minutes south of Sydney. I might post a pic or two when I get a copy - the south coast certainly is a beautiful location.

As for poker, I've decided to make another run at building a bankroll at the casino. Sydney (Star City) Casino is only a short drive from my place and the parking is free as long as I clock up an hour of play. (Of course, on the occasions I've dusted off my buyin before the hour is up I railbird the higher limit games until the time is up). Last year I decided to make a weekly trip to the casino with the primary goal of 'getting into a groove' so that I felt comfortable there and got into some routine. This lasted for around 2 months but eventually I stopped going as I was running pretty hot online and my ROI for these trips wasn't too great.

While I still turned as reasonable profit from those trips, it was for the most part frustrating as:
- almost every session I was card dead so when I eventually did get any kind of playable hand, even the unobservant players would step aside to the 'rock'.
- the 1/2 game has a max buyin of $80 or 40BB. To my thinking, the correct strategy was to wait for a premium hand then basically ride it to the river. It's almost shortstack tournament play involving more math and less post flop 'feel' which is out of my comfort zone. As I was generally card dead, it was rare I ever got above 100BB.
- the rake was horrible in my opinion, with both an hourly time charge and a cut taken from every pot.



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