riding the HORSE

20% deposit bonus at stars means I take out half my roll at UB, and get free monies. I've been DYING to play at stars ever since they started to spread HORSE. HORSE is just a mixed game, that of Hold'em Omaha/Eight Razz Stud, and stud/Eight which rotates every 8 hands.

Hold'em I can play, as it's the first poker game I studied, O/8 is a teeny bit harder, but since I got a decent amount of PLO8 under my belt, I'm just making minor adjustments here and there, making a few looser calldowsn with the lock on 1 side of the pot if its a big pot. Stud is fairly intuitive to play for now, plus I have the 7cs section in Super System, which has been faring me well, as well as the stud/8 game seems to be coming to me as well (also in Super System, though it was written when there was no qualifier for low, so a few adjustments had to be made). Razz I thought would be easy, and for the most part it is, but aparently not as easy as I thought. I made the assumption of current best made hand in Razz is always the favorite... but I forget that equity is determined on what card could come, not just on what is the best now.

Live and learn I guess.

I gotta do the rest of that stars bonus later, maybe take a shot at 1/2 since I have a better feel for most of the games. For now though, I have a week to clear a $100 reload bonus at Party to clear (shouldn't take long at all). Thinking some PLO8, though maybe I should lay off that for now since I left myself 5 or so hands to review for that which I didn't look over. (yes, the same ones from my last post). Maybe I'll take a second stab at PLO, though I'm starting to think I should limit the amount of games I learn at one time.