First Experience at Euro Tables

Posted by icemonkey9 on Feb 6, 2010 in General | 0 comments

BW said that Euro tables were soft at Stars, so I said I'd give em a shot.  I played at 12 of them and was impressed with the automatic conversion for the money, thought that was cool.  One REAL cool thing was that all the Euro tables have a 35 big blind minimum buy-in!!  Something coming for the rest of the normal tables?!

Unfortunately things didn't end up Fonzi at the tables.  2.5 buy-ins below EV in 750 hands.  It's funny how variance will strike you in the ass as soon as you try something new, eh?

I would post the hands but I couldn't find a hand converter to work with Euros.

The lowlights:

• My K3 vs his J4.  Board is 33J6 and we put in our full 100bb stacks.  I'm a 95.5% favorite ... he spikes his Jack on the river.  Booooo!
• QQ goes AIPF against a 63/30 guy (70ish hands) who 4bets 5%.  He shows up with AA and I lose a stack. (btw a blind vs blind situation)
• AQ from the BB, I make a squeeze to 11 big blinds and 2 callers.  Flop is A43, I get it in against ... yup, 44.  Have to love that.
• AK goes AIPF against a guy with about a 65 big blind stack, he has JJ, I lose the standard flip (oh he's a 63/20 over 30 hands.
• I get JJ AIPF (6-handed) against a 90/20 who shows up with QJo.  Yes, he hit his Q on the river. Just sick.