What is your Best Game?
Poker is a fantastic game. It has so many facets and nuances that if you only ever played Texas Holdem, you could spend your whole life concentrating on perfecting it, and still have work to do. That being said, poker is also great because there are so many variances. There’s Omaha, 7 card stud, Razz, 5 card draw, and i’m only scratching the surface. The reason i’m asking is not because i think you dont know about other types of poker games. The reason is much much deeper than that.
Profit
So you take a bad beat on Full Tilt in a small sit n go, and are pissed at holdem’. So, instead of taking another shot at multi tabling in the same game, you fire up an Omaha table, or a Hi/Lo 7 Card table. And guess what? You come out making a lot of money. Way more than you would have if you had won that sit n go. That’s my story anyway, and that’s how i started playing 7 Stud more often than any other game (by far my favourite). Was it because i was better at 7 stud than most people? I don’t think so, but i gave myself time to learn the game, and really studied it. This made it my most profitable game; how would you go about diversifying or changing games entirely?
Making the Decision
In my experience, a bad beat led me to change my game, and winning at 7 stud kept me coming back. It just happened to be my perfect game. I was able to set goals and combine those goals with solid strategies i either learned from books or witnessed from other players. The thing that appealed to me about 7 stud was being able to view cards that other players were holding, and use those statistics to make a decision on my cards. This let me use skills that Holdem doesn’t really value. Other players may find the appeal of Omaha and 4 starting cards appealing. The point is, making the decision to try out a different game may be as simple as a bad beat, but to stay with that game it comes to profit and opportunity as well as maximising your personal skills.
So, what is your most profitable game?
