TOURNAMENT #100

1st place, meaning I finish with my high for the 100 tournaments. That was a near thing. Here's hoping the next 100 $2.25 tournaments will go a little smoother.

Final Tournament

Tournament #100 is coming up. Interesting in that I could conceivably finish at my highest $ amount with a win.

Good: I'm guaranteed to finish UP by at least $9.60.

I learned a lot in this 100 tournaments and I'm very tempted to move on to $2 tournaments now.

FUCKING FINALLY

Well after 77 tournaments I'm finally back above zero. I think that should put paid to any idea that I have that I'm getting good. However, this discipline of playing only this kind of tournament has paid off. I see situations that would have drawn me in (or chased me off) before that are much less likely to. I've been on both ends of TERRIBLE beats, and also watched as justice has prevailed.

I plan to decide after the 100th tournament whether to move on to $2 tournaments or a different game.

I especially am proud that I was able to stop coming in 7th place, for the most part. When I noticed that share of the pie getting bigger than the rest, I started changing my play around that point. Usually that translated into playing slower, especially if my stack got poached early on.

In tournament 77 I was short stack most of the time, but just slowed down and only played the hands I really wanted to. It helped, I think, that I had developed a rep early in the game for playing hard when I had cards. So when I showed "CARDS!" while short stacked, people ran away! I built up a lot of stack that way.

It helps that I was able to pull out a couple rivers, but overall I think I wouldn't have even been in a position to improve on the river at a certain point if I hadn't played well prior to that point.

Place:

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

48 Tournaments In

Notes:

I stopped keeping track of players because I started to realize, the notes I was keeping weren't doing me any good anyway. That is -- the notes on the players.

I'm the only player I need to watch out for!

I've noticed a couple things:

7th and 6th places are great places for me to tilt. So I have to watch that.

I know a few of those 6th and especially 7th finishes are at extremely tight tables, where there are 7 players remaining after the blinds have advanced pretty far. I think I need to be more table aware and play more aggressively on those tables BEFORE the blinds tighten me up. Of course, I recall doing just that in a few of these tournaments only to get called / outdrawn...so I tighten up and boom I'm in 7th with short stack and <5 BB's. So it's all relative.

If I get two or three good pockets in a row, I need to mix up my pre-flop play. I've noticed a tendency, if I play aggressive pre-flop with a hand and then lose, then get another good pocket -- I do the same thing and I lose the same way. Because it all depends on if I hit my flop or have outs on the flop, and if I don't, I've soiled my table rep and whittled down my stack.

I guarded against that tendency in this last tournament, even folded something I would have liked to play. First place, baby!

I need to realize that besides my table rep and my stack, my POSITION is also changing. Three hands in a row my position can go from strong to very weak -- or vice versa, of course.

So: lose two hands in a row playing aggressively, STOP PLAYING AGGRESSIVELY FOR AWHILE or you'll go on tilt!


Place:

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Tournament #42

Notes:


Place: 3rd, after leading going into the money. We played a long time -- maybe I got impatient.

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Tournament #41

Notes: I'm starting to pick up repeat customers more and more. 2 this time!

we are at bb50 and less than 400 chips separates 3rd from 8th. time to play a little more hands

Yep. Raised from mid position and watched everybody fold. This might not work if the big stacks are in position (although -- the top 2 only have 1.2k more than last place

I'm doing well but I'm also getting hands. Don't think I could be doing this without getting hands. Duh, I know.


listentomebomb calls from mid stack with a/q, my k/10 suited hits on the river

I am getting much respect

2nd after long heads up w/hughcumber who played well







Place: 2nd

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Tournament #40

Notes:

shaquille all in after his 7 hits on the flop. 7!

1emptychair shows garbage after bluffing out on letastama

lunamargot in 1st at money

1 empty chair likes to play garbage bluffs but sometimes he also has cards



Place: 3rd after all in pre with a/10 off. chair calls with j/q off, hits his q on first card

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)