More shark fins

Last night, the shape of the bar chart of my stack over time was shark fins trending up again, just the way I like them! They're my first shark fins in 7 card stud. The other two session shapes were basically porpoising.

Another characteristic I really like about 7 card stud which neither Hold'em nor Omaha share is the ability to bluff purely based on the strength of your up cards. It's a bluff with more bite than bluffs in community card games; with a community card game bluff, you can easily be shooting yourself in the foot, since the board could actually be helping one of your opponents.

My last hand of the night, I won a pot worth $986 when a flush and straight draw turned into trip fives on the last two streets.

delta: $501
balance: $1,037,624

Love at first sight

Last night, I tried 7 card stud on PokerStars for the first time; it was love at first sight! I immediately saw three things about it which give it a very high skill potential:

1. there are no positional advantages, to speak of, since there's no rotating dealer button; in Hold'em, position routinely enables weak hands to beat stronger ones

2. there are fixed betting limits (at least at the table I joined), so opponents can't be as aggressive as they can in pot limit or no limit

3. you get much more information to work with, in the form of up cards, than you do in Hold'em or Omaha

This game looks like it's right up my alley; time will tell. I'll cut my teeth on the $10/$20 tables for a while, then graduate to the $200/$400 tables when I'm ready.

delta: $310
balance: $1,037,002