Re: Quick Stud 8 question

On Jul 22 2008 7:44 AM, Will_gamble wrote:

> Since all my distinguished colleagues on RGP have said that stud 8 is
> truly a game where the most skillful player wins, I decided to give it
> another go.
> 
> Not to good.  
> 
> I am down a couple hundred big bets and I am really uncertain if it is
my
> play or the usual run of bad luck that I experience when I change games
or
> levels.  
> 
> Naturally, I have had a few donkey hands where I get in a pissing match
> with somebody on the button 

if you are playing stud8 and referring to the button .. U R ****ED
..QUIT!!!



that raises my bring-in where there are just
> the two of us, but other than that it *seems* like pure bad luck where I
> am getting rivered, split, bricked out, or no action.
> 
> Generally 80% of my playing hands are three babies that will make a
> straight at worst, usually to a 7.  I read if you make four babies on
> fourth street, you have an 80% chance to make low.  Well s****ts fans, it
> ain't happening for me.
> 
> I generally play it out if I make 4 babies on 4th or 5th street,
> especially heads up or when I am the only one that appears to be going
> low.  Should I be folding these?  
> 
> Almost all of the time I am the aggressor and one or two people just
won't
> go away and I usually brick out or get rivered and there goes 5 BB. 
Then
> it is wait 5 to ten hands for decent starting cards, repeat cycle.  
> 
> Ironically, the times I have logged winning sessions, it has really been
> the same kind of frustrating situations reversed that have been
happening
> to me.  Like somebody pu****ng pocket aces with a low draw and not
> improving and I back into  to two small pair and scoop.  What I am
saying
> is that the winning hands are just goofy a lot of the time.
> 
> Maybe I am just fooling myself and I am just playing bad.  It occurred
to
> me that I should go back and review all the hands I played last night
> before I play today to see what I could have done differently. 
> 
> Man on a stud 8 mission.

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