Hitting the tourneys
First of all, a result from Saturday evening. Having had a couple of hours spare, I decided to enter a $27 speed NLHE rebuy on VC. The very first hand came up with one of those"What would you do in the first hand of the WSOP" scenarios. The blinds start in this format at 20-40 with each player holding 2000 chips. Normally I rebuy instantly and go from there, however in you cannot rebuy untill hand 2.
The very 1st hand I picked up AA and raised to 200. Ordinarily this is a bit on the large size, however in these touneys it is pretty standard. With that, all hell broke loose. The cut off moved in, the button moved in, the small blind folded and the big blind moved in. I was up against 2 K Js and an A 10!. I quarupled up, and for once didnt need to rebuy and as it turned out didnt need to add on either.
I again played well and aggressively form 3-4 tables in, and made the final table about 5th in chips. Eventually I got heads up, with a 4-1 deficit. I managed to get ot the stage with 800,000 chips in play where I had 380,000. With huge blinds of 50,000-100,000, I managed to get all my chips into the middle pre flop with AQ agasint K5..... Unfortunately a turned 5 ended my touney, but having brought in for just 27 + 1.35 the $1300 second place prize was more than decent.
These tourneys seem to attract a lot of mediocre players, who seem to be under the impression that there is no skill involved. I find that if I play sensible poker I consistantly make mney out of these tourneys.
With a little bit of cash game success, I managed to cash £730.36 / $1424.20.
I am hitting the tourneys tonight, with the aim of a good cash finish in the $20,000 guranteed or preferably the $50,000!!!
Month to date -
Party Poker - -£100 / -$195
Ladbrokes - +£814.45 / +$1597.93
VC - +1371.94 / +$2675.28
Overall - +£2086.39 / +$4068.46
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Yesterday saw Havant and Waterlooville go top of the conference south with a grounded out 1-0 win against Basingstoke. Well done the boys!
Best wishes
The very 1st hand I picked up AA and raised to 200. Ordinarily this is a bit on the large size, however in these touneys it is pretty standard. With that, all hell broke loose. The cut off moved in, the button moved in, the small blind folded and the big blind moved in. I was up against 2 K Js and an A 10!. I quarupled up, and for once didnt need to rebuy and as it turned out didnt need to add on either.
I again played well and aggressively form 3-4 tables in, and made the final table about 5th in chips. Eventually I got heads up, with a 4-1 deficit. I managed to get ot the stage with 800,000 chips in play where I had 380,000. With huge blinds of 50,000-100,000, I managed to get all my chips into the middle pre flop with AQ agasint K5..... Unfortunately a turned 5 ended my touney, but having brought in for just 27 + 1.35 the $1300 second place prize was more than decent.
These tourneys seem to attract a lot of mediocre players, who seem to be under the impression that there is no skill involved. I find that if I play sensible poker I consistantly make mney out of these tourneys.
With a little bit of cash game success, I managed to cash £730.36 / $1424.20.
I am hitting the tourneys tonight, with the aim of a good cash finish in the $20,000 guranteed or preferably the $50,000!!!
Month to date -
Party Poker - -£100 / -$195
Ladbrokes - +£814.45 / +$1597.93
VC - +1371.94 / +$2675.28
Overall - +£2086.39 / +$4068.46
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Yesterday saw Havant and Waterlooville go top of the conference south with a grounded out 1-0 win against Basingstoke. Well done the boys!
Best wishes
posted by Mosside at 11:01 AM
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