{"id":16,"date":"2004-09-07T19:51:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T00:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dtrdev\/2004\/09\/07\/first-party\/"},"modified":"2004-09-07T19:51:20","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T00:51:20","slug":"first-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/2004\/09\/07\/first-party\/","title":{"rendered":"First Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Played my first 500 hands of Party Poker over the last day.  Since I had never played online before and I don’t have a large bankroll, I played it safe and only went in for two 50 dollar bonuses  – that way, if I made money off the bonuses, I’d have some money built up to play through a bigger deposit for IGMPay.  My plan is to build a small online bankroll from bonus whoring exclusively – I don’t have the means to play beyond that.  Playing 1\/2, I was technically a little down after the 500 hands, but I was, in terms of actual money in my pocket, way up because of the bonuses.  Nothing like getting paid to practice my poker game.  Once my next deposit goes through, I’ll start towards the next bonus, eyeing a move to 2\/4 where the rake is better.<\/P>
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I’ll have more to say about this session later.  Again, some real bad luck (I cannot seem to win with Aces, Kings, or Queens), but, again, more mistakes.  <\/P>
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One piece of SSHE that I have incorrectly implemented is playing overcards.  I always pay attention to the backdoor drwas but I don’t think I measure the strength of the board enough.  I tcan’t just be raggedy; it’s got be raddedy and not TOO coordinated (otherwise, there’s probably something reasonably strong out there) but not too uncoordinated either (in that case, they aren’t on a draw and must have a pair and possibly a reverse dominating one).  I also don’t think I have a good enough sense of how to measure whether I can get people out by playing aggressively in a large pot.  Particularly in the 1\/2 games, people have resolved to stay in the hand or not whether it’s one bet or two.<\/P>
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I also make a wide variety of river mistakes.  On my first time playing in a casino ever, I raised way too much with the second-to-absolute-nuts.  I thought, “well, he might call me with X” when that was highly unlikely or “he might have been raising with just a set that can’t beat my flush” when he had a full house.  Really silly stuff.  Then, I swung in the other direction, and didn’t bet enough on the river. I’d go into a shell with solid hands, even when draws didn’t come through.  <\/P>
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Last night, there was one time where I made the former mistake by betting only when I could be beaten and I should have known he rivered his fullhouse given the betting patterns (he had raised pre-flop, I flopped the nut straight to the ace, we had been raising to the limit on flop and turn, so the board pairing should have clued me in – duh).  Oh well, one BB lost, not a huge deal.<\/P>
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But there were many other more complicated situations with varied results.  Throughout the 500 hands, I noticed people (in general, not just against me) check-raising the river.  Mostly, they had the nuts, but sometimes it was indeed a bluff-raise.  There was less predictability, so betting for value was harder to do.  When semi-scare cards would fall, I found it difficult to figure out how to play.<\/P>
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My biggest problem is when I’ve got something like AK, with an A on the table, with board semi-coordinated.  If they called my raise pre-flop, and they check-called with me all the way, have they hit their draw? Did they hit a two pair?  <\/P>
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I also made some good laydowns in medium-sized pots. But there were enough mistakes of these varieties to make me notice the issues.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Played my first 500 hands of Party Poker over the last day.  Since I had never played online before and I don’t have a large bankroll, I played it safe and only went in for two 50 dollar bonuses  – that way, if I made money off the bonuses, I’d have some money built up to play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dtrstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}