So, I figured 'twas about time to post some of my adventures in the month of March.
This month I branched out a bit in my play and the efforts ended up being rewarding. I did more scouting and had better shots at game selection too.
Over the course of a fairly long session I ended up 200 units which I considered pretty respectable. I also managed to examine the psychological side of my play. By this I mean that mathematically if you are playing a game at an advantage there is really no reason to put an artificial stopping point in your session. But of course tiredness, possible heat, hunger, desired session length, etc can of course make good breaking points. As can the impending end of a trip I found.
For me at least, the emotional satisfaction of being up a significant amount outweighed the possibility of increasing that gain when maybe 5% of the trip time remained; plus I was not seeing any kind of earth-shattering opportunities around. I used the time to explore and scout and I think it served me well.
I managed to see some pretty attractive penetration here and there and did my best to go to war with my chip-based ammo. And I learned the valuable lesson of exploring your store on every trip just in case you find some hidden gems that you were not expecting to uncover.
However the trip was not all golden. My biggest mistake was not properly ratholing like I -knew- I should be. And then trying to hustle for comps at a table that I did show a significant loss at only to be told rather bluntly by a PB that I should not even try to claim that I am down "for my entire trip". Lesson learned/reinforced.
I also found that the common perception of AP-ers as legendary beasts is quite useful. It allows some comments to be very easily played off as jokes and works really well in those tense seconds when you are trying to figure out if a dealer/player/Voice of God is making a jest or is actually asserting your mythic status.
Especially funny can be a player's story of the person that you just missed at the table that was "making all these crazy plays and everybody was winning, and you know those MIT people, they are out there somewhere". Hilarious.
Final thoughts: PBS gets a smack upside the head for not handling chips properly and thankfully managed to learn and grown in a non-painful manner.
This month I branched out a bit in my play and the efforts ended up being rewarding. I did more scouting and had better shots at game selection too.
Over the course of a fairly long session I ended up 200 units which I considered pretty respectable. I also managed to examine the psychological side of my play. By this I mean that mathematically if you are playing a game at an advantage there is really no reason to put an artificial stopping point in your session. But of course tiredness, possible heat, hunger, desired session length, etc can of course make good breaking points. As can the impending end of a trip I found.
For me at least, the emotional satisfaction of being up a significant amount outweighed the possibility of increasing that gain when maybe 5% of the trip time remained; plus I was not seeing any kind of earth-shattering opportunities around. I used the time to explore and scout and I think it served me well.
I managed to see some pretty attractive penetration here and there and did my best to go to war with my chip-based ammo. And I learned the valuable lesson of exploring your store on every trip just in case you find some hidden gems that you were not expecting to uncover.
However the trip was not all golden. My biggest mistake was not properly ratholing like I -knew- I should be. And then trying to hustle for comps at a table that I did show a significant loss at only to be told rather bluntly by a PB that I should not even try to claim that I am down "for my entire trip". Lesson learned/reinforced.
I also found that the common perception of AP-ers as legendary beasts is quite useful. It allows some comments to be very easily played off as jokes and works really well in those tense seconds when you are trying to figure out if a dealer/player/Voice of God is making a jest or is actually asserting your mythic status.
Especially funny can be a player's story of the person that you just missed at the table that was "making all these crazy plays and everybody was winning, and you know those MIT people, they are out there somewhere". Hilarious.
Final thoughts: PBS gets a smack upside the head for not handling chips properly and thankfully managed to learn and grown in a non-painful manner.