More on the HORSE Tourney

There was *another* article about poker in the NYTimes today. I'm not even going to link to it - to borrow from a list of cliches, if the NYTimes is giving poker this much coverage, it must already be past its prime.

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Ok, so HORSE tourney time. First off, let me say that I am EXTREMELY disappointed that Full Tilt doesn't have hand histories. That blows BIG time. Why do I want to play at a site where I can't learn from my mistakes as easily as at other sites? Then add to the mix that there were only 3,000 players connected last night, AND the fact that the fish were few and far between, and it's a recipe for "me-no-wanna-play-here".

Anyway, I really wanted to go through my HORSE tournament hand history blow-by-blow and dissect a few key hands, but clearly that can't happen. I did have the foresight to grab my "stats" from the site's stat page before closing up my session last night.

[Bleh, I was gonna post the stats here, but I can't seem to get Blogger to format them properly. No matter what I do, it keeps deleting all the whitespace between my columns.]

Remember, a HORSE tourney is played 8-handed, so on average you would expect to win 12.5% of your hands. My Holdem (7/60), Omaha (4.5/34), Stud (4/37) and Stud-Eight (3.5/27) stats are all fairly average, but look at those Razz stats! 9 for 43, and a whopping 3 for 3 on showdowns. Clearly, my Stud game needs work, as I was only 1 for 3 on showdowns there, meaning I'm either over-valuing what's a good hand or not reading people's boards well enough. I'll take 3 for 4 in Stud-Eight, even if they were all splits, and 2 for 3 in O8. The one 08 showdown that I lost, I knew I was beat before I called the river.

If only I hadn't self-destructed with those Hellmuths in the fourth round of holdem... ah well.