Tournament #33

Notes:

pitbossrat plays really fast when he thinks he has cards
raised first hand, i called with rockets. he bets flop, i raise, he folds
next hand he raises with A K, but then sits quietly and waits for the river

pitbossrat first to go, thought he was best player. loose aggressive from the start.
finally from short stack with the push (although, he did have cards)

boringbill called me down all the way with NOTHING -- of course I also had nothing.

Watch for the push from boringbill



Place: 5th

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

Tournament #10

Notes: Just playing for fun. 44 oz of IPA later.

I have a strong sense that I will probably never play the same person twice in these 100 tourneys. So these notes have a shelf life of only one tournament each. Unless I gain some insight into my own play.

Folks seem to be playing tight. Nobody messing with anybody. Dojbop went all in w/trip 6's first hand, fell to white jackal's 4 flush

I'm playing in a style I played prior to this blog -- watching only my hands and reading blogs when not playing.

I'm also abandoning the strategy of cultivating a bs table image in order to rake in when I have a hand.



Jackal is playing ten foot tall and bullet proof from behind the big stack, raising or betting every hand

Basically just watching everybody fall to Jackal's steals and hoping I last longer than they



White Jackal is a maniac. He just pushes every hand he's in.

And he finally falls after everybody including me doubles up on him

kuberman seems willing to call pre flop if it's just you & him but doesn't mess around after that

 I don't seem to have any table image at all that I can figure

5th place all in pre flop w/kk

dominated by drstevil ka on river









Place: 5th

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

Tournament #4

Tournament Number: 160841166

Notes: Just got up from a nap. Updated spreadsheet. Wanting to play.
grizzly103 seems to be playing every hand
3 hands in and roborangutang hasn't played yet




le gnou all in @flop after reraising robo preflop -- no callers

Played the game, lost to le gnou who flopped top pair and just kept calling my little pair from bb

le gnou likes the all in play




do not go up against le gnou pre flop

and jpmorgado 1st to go: all in with top pair @ flop but not top pair for long
faber23 all in w/set of q's -- loses to agnes's all in @river w/flush

I'm not really here to do play by play of the tournament am I? Still these also give impressions of the players themselves.

I think I'm overplaying the (rare) hands I find myself in

roborangutang seems to play hard WHEN HE PLAYS and he wins without showdowns
krustofskii calls all in with low pair...loses to garretts...not knocked out yet tho
 -- garretts played his pocket 10's straight up, too

roborangutang WILL PUSH if you don't play -- and sometimes if you do

krustofskii goes after calling all in on le gnou -- le gnou had flopped a set (of 6's!)from bb

and robo is gone after calling le gnou's pushing with mid pair (ace kicker) -- le gnou had high pair ace kicker LOL

grizzly slow plays the flush, I push when I hit my A, and I take 5th place again. Probably a dumb play on my part

Truth be told, I should have seen the flush draw and stayed frosty

Place: 5
(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Tournament #3

Tournament Number: 160776836

Notes:
Feeling kind of icky but anxious to play.

Phil Gordon: Never enter a pot VOLUNTARILY without raising.

How does that sit with playing tight in the early stages? It means: only play hands you're willing to raise on entry. AND they'd better be super tight because most others will be playing the low stakes / high return game.

1st hand jq off, raised 1 bb -- Gordon also says, only raise the same amount for middling hands as for big hands. I think that makes sense. I might adjust my next raise to 1.5 bb but keep it at that.

Failed to make continuation bet, afrojoemama made an ok bet from the button

afrojoe played big with nothing, down to last place but still alive

I reraise afrojoe w/99, he pushes -- I fold I think that was the play

Next hand he pushes with nothing but outs, and gets called -- with 99! 99 takes the pot and he's gone. I still think I made the right play even though I had him made for a maniac

I LOVE PHIL GORDON

stadebrian calls my flush all in -- he had hit his king. that hand might have been multiway if i hadn't raised.

(This reminds me -- I also like to call all in with high pair. DON'T DO THAT)




I have to type in my bets in order to raise 1.5 bb -- I like it...

I was thinking today -- I had been enjoying my "step" model where I played one tournament at a time at whatever level I'd reached (not the FTP step tournaments which I also enjoy). Maybe I could do 100-tournament steps? So depending on how I do on this 100, make the next 100 $2 tournaments...

Wow -- I just folded k 10 off -- had no position...glad I did too cause yelsew pushed and won with KA suited. See, I would have limped and folded before Phil (BP)

Trupulet all in with Ace high and loses to competetodefeat who calls with -- ace high

Lisandro is playing the calling station angle on compete -- pushed but he didn't go for it

I'm getting folded to almost every time i raise pre flop -- haven't had a single showdown I don't think except for the all in

Blackguards 1bb raise in lb I call in bb -- we tie. He had kq off I had kx -- pure luck but I like the way I played it.

I'm not paying as much attention to the other players as I have in the previous two tournaments.

Maybe because I'm playing so many fewer hands? Maybe because I have a sense they're all goofballs?

I reraise lisa preflop -- she pushes and I fold QQ

yelsew plays the river masterfully -- I didn't bet enough to knock her off her 4 4 w/kicker

And the finale was sick -- yelsew32 raises preflop with 4 5 off suit, I push from last place w/q 10 suited, yelsew flops a full house! SICK!

Truth be told, I didn't have enough to knock her off of anything...no...she made an idiot play and won anyway. That's the definition of sick. I don't think a good player would have called my all in with 4 5 off suit.

Place: 5th
(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)