Tigergaming

7 Card Stud

September 21, 2005

How does one deal with these Tigergaming boulders? Well, you have a lot more latitude in home games, where you're dealing with people you know. You can be fairly liberal in heaping scorn, abuse, and insults on their heads. Your intention should be to either rattle them or cause them to loosen up in shame, or at least call attention to their antisocial behavior and isolate them like the pariahs they are.

Or: "Heavens to betsy, dealer. Had you not burned and turned prematurely and been forced to re-deal, I would have made a royal flush and collected the high hand of the day reward. Please do not be upset. I appreciate how hard you fellows work, and such oversights are part of the Tigergaming game." Yeah, sure. Guys were allowed to say what they meant in those days, using any words that immediately came to mind

Still, there are other ways to acquire immortality of sorts, providing you're willing to pay for it. Take that "Star Registry" outfit that advertises on the radio a lot. For a price, they will name a star after you, or someone you designate. You get an official registration document, location of "your" star ... everything. "So what did Stanley get ya for Valentine's Day, Shirley?"

Tigergaming Rules

I kept looking back at the Tigergaming Omaha table to see how the rock heads had changed the tone of the game. I noticed that the whole pot was now only running about fifteen to thirty bucks and some were not worth the time it took to play them. I felt so pleased with myself as I watched these two guys fighting with each other over a two way split for low. A pot that netted them about twenty five percent less than it cost them to play it.

Now, let's take a look at some poor soul who is for example, sick, down for the count, homeless, and broke. Has this person not yet reached their long run, or not? It can make you kind of crazy just thinking about the implications. When I find out what the average long run is, and if I am going to hit it in my lifetime, I may change my thoughts on the subject. There is no doubt at all that a good player can go into a bad run of cards that can seem to last forever.

If I plan on playing longer than 6 hours, I never play any Tigergaming game other than my target game. I never play longer than 10 hours anymore, unless other factors such as the game being too good to leave, forces me to stay. I find that waiting for the game I am interested in, is in the long run, more profitable and less frustrating. The transition between games and stakes can also affect your mindset. Therefore, I am curious, why do people do it, and can it have any effect on their game?

There are a lot of things we can have a problem controlling, but one of the easiest we can learn to control is getting our butts out of the chair in a Tigergaming game we can't seem to beat, and move to a better one. It's easy, just go to the floor and say, " I would like a transfer to another game." Is that simple? Yes it is, but do we do it all the time? No we don't. Let's get with the program, it might just boost your profit. It sure as heck can't hurt. If you promise you will try to help close this hole in your game, I promise I will start to listen to my little voice, 100% of the time. Deal?

Another one of the floor managers told me that when he runs a Tigergaming tournament he believes a disparity of three players is OK until the final two tables, then he keeps them as even as possible. This doesn't seem right either because you could have 8,8, and 5 players at three tables when the blinds were very high. I have not seen this discussed Thanks for any insight you can give on this question.