Poker Stars Deep Stack Tournaments
No matter how tempted you might be to join one of these…DON’T DO IT!!
I made the first mistake and didn’t realize it was a limit tournament. Talk about dragging out online poker play. I just busted in 48th place out of 664 after 7 hours of play! Seven fucking hours! It was $20+2 to enter and I was paid $33.20. A whole fucking $11.20 for 7 fucking hours! It was not even close to being fun.
Don’t touch these tournaments with a 10 foot pole. Warn your friends, family, and neighbors.
On the bright side I made another cash finish in a big field tournament.
Owned
I got owned by Drizz in the first round of HUC2. In the best of three match I actually took the first game before the blinds went up. This while playing another heads-up that I got into by mistake. I slow played aces in the final hand and took down his top pair.
The next two games didn’t go so hot. I was outplayed pretty much the whole way. I got down early and I don’t play well heads-up when I’m behind. Definitely a weakness of mine. Give me a lead and I’ll push chips around like their coming out of my ass, but put me in a come from behind position and I get scared of everything. Note to self for next time I play HU: stay aggressive.
No Recap Coming
I’ve decided against doing a recap of the 2nd place finish because it’s already been 3 days. Recaps need to be typed up soon afterwards because the excitement and my memory is gone.
I remember making 3 mistakes throughout the tournament. The first I can’t remember for the life of me. The second mistake was an attemped blind steal when we were down to about 20 players. I had A6o on the button and ran into AK in the big blind. The board double paired and we split the pot otherwise I was gone. Phew! The third mistake was the costly one. We were playing heads up for a good half hour. Back and forth went the chip lead with solid play from both sides. He raised from the small blind and I decided I was going to push with my A2o. I hadn’t come over the top of him in quite some time pre-flop and I acted too quickly. He called with pocket sevens and I didn’t get any help from the board. Game over.
In Focus
I just finished browsing through some of my Poker Tracker stats for cash games and tournaments. It was an eye opener to say the least. What I had previously thought were my strengths are actually my weaknesses and vice versa. Once I can go through the data a bit more I’m going to write up a summary complete with a discussion and my plans for taking advantage of my findings.
I also owe a post about the tournaments I played over the weekend, including the largest cash of my poker journey. My tournament play from the weekend is actually what spurred me to check out my stats and data. Part of me is still in shock at what I found, but part of me knew it all along. I guess I’ve been hiding from myself.
It also looks like I will finally be part of a regular home game that a friend is starting up. I definitely need more live play.
It Feels Good…
…to get a nice cash in a big tournament. This is my biggest cash so far. It’s 6 in the morning and I’m whooped, so I’ll try to do a proper write up tomorrow at some point.
Poker Hacks
As many of the poker bloggers know, Doubleas is writing a book for the O’Reilly Hacks Series which will be titled Poker Hacks. The people contributing to the book make a who’s who list of poker bloggers. Earlier this week Doubleas contacted me to see if I’d like to contribute something from Poker Chip Tricks and I couldn’t say yes quick enough. I can’t teach you any poker lessons or knock your socks off with my writing, but I can teach you a chip trick or two. He announced it on his blog today, so I figured I could spill the beans here now as well.
PCT has been in one magazine (twice so far), a different magazine on the way, and now a poker book.
Blogger Heads Up
I’ll be playing HU2 with a bunch of other poker bloggers. I’ve had good success when I’ve played heads up matches on a few different sites, so I’m looking forward to testing my HU game against better opponents.
Harrah and AOL Partnership
Harrah’s Entertainment is teaming up with AOL to offer a free poker room to AOL members.
32 Cents
$5 + $1 NL Hold’em speed tournament on Party Poker.
1580 people entered the tournament.
I lasted 50 minutes and only saw 9 flops.
Finished in 150th place for a payout of $6.32 and a whopping $0.32 profit.
That’s how you build a bankroll!
New Poker Chip Tricks
At least 5 new tricks will be posted at PCT this week. The first one, Top Spin, was just posted.
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