{"id":20,"date":"2004-09-15T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T02:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dtrdev\/2004\/09\/15\/plugging-away-at-party\/"},"modified":"2004-09-15T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T02:04:47","slug":"plugging-away-at-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/2004\/09\/15\/plugging-away-at-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugging Away at Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a21'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;m back in Cambridge, but not back in classes yet, so plenty of time to plug away at my last Party bonus.&nbsp; But I&#8217;ve got some work to do, too, and a larger post will have to wait a little.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Suffice it to say: it&#8217;s been interesting adjusting to the a) plain dumb and loose, b) moderately dumb but mostly just passive (more like the Palms), and c) plain dumb and loose and aggressive games.&nbsp; It takes all kinds folks, and apparently Party Poker has given them a place to congregate.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t quite believe everything I&#8217;d read about it, but, wow, it&#8217;s incredible to see the variety of bogus plays and suck outs, and the distance just a little tightness can go.&nbsp;I&nbsp;haven&#8217;t been winning that much, but I&#8217;ve been playing well overall &#8211; it&#8217;s certainly an easier field to combat.&nbsp;On the other hand, it&#8217;s&nbsp;been a tricky adjustment at times &#8211; there are so many people coming and going from tables, that it&#8217;s tough to get a feel for the individual players &#8211; I&#8217;ve been able to recognize the general tenor of the table, and I&#8217;ve been able to identify that guy who calls all the raises no matter what, or that guy who raised with decent hands, but not all the individual players.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in Cambridge, but not back in classes yet, so plenty of time to plug away at my last Party bonus.&nbsp; But I&#8217;ve got some work to do, too, and a larger post will have to wait a little. Suffice it to say: it&#8217;s been interesting adjusting to the a) plain dumb and loose, [&hellip;]<\/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-20","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\/20","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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}