Gutshot Draw

An old postcard of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

Editing photos make them look bettter.  Looking at photos of LV and paintings of the same, the paintings look better.

The King is still not playing for pennies, and playing just for play money heads-up. This game is like a psychologist training a laboratory animal. Previous hands affect the present hand because my opponent remembered the previous hand.  The King successfully bluffs the flop, on the next hand his opponent called his flop bet and folded on the turn bet.  Regularity is not good and unpredicatibility is desirable. the way his opponent thinks is how the King thinks.

If the King has been folding a lot to his opponent's aggression, was it because of bluffing or simply because of his opponent getting good cards? 

Four Day Losing Streak

The King is presently losing badly and the heads up, play money tables - four days in a row.  His balance has not gone done appreciably but losing makes him wonder if his skill level is high enough to beat the game... and at this level.  There were days that he won without effort and the good cards just came on and on, but at present the bad beats are nonstop. The same old story, his good hands get cracked by better hands and calling stations catch miracle cards.  Straight and flush draws don't complete and his opponent's draws come in.  Add to this the tilting.

It is like playing penny poker and his experiencing days of losing and bad beats by players catching miracle cards with garbage hands.

Getting back to reality, the King is still on a long rest from penny poker and organizing his books.