Update from the WSOP Bluff event
Well I failed in another attempt to qualify for a WSOP event. Bluff was giving a $2000 WSOP package away in a $20 tourney at Pokershare. I had to sit out the first hour of the event since I was rooting on my son at his swim meet. As important as poker is to me, it pales in comparison to the importance I have on family. It was an easy decision to watch my son bust his ass and give it his all racing against kids that are all older than him. He left every bit of himself in the pool last night and I could not be more proud of him.
That being said I was one of the short stacks when I returned from the pool. Fortunately Pokershare has such a good blind structure that I felt I could wait for a hand. We were already down to 35 players when I started playing. I slowly built up chips, but I never even clawed back to an average stack before falling short in 8th place. My final hand I had 14 outs to win and double up but the card just wouldnt fall for me. I know I will get another chance though.
Since it was so late I could not even play much 1/2 NL. I ended the day up a whopping $4. Tonight I have a board meeting but then I should be able to play. I am thinking about entering the WSOP qualifier on Pokershare as well. Good luck to all of you out there.
posted by billinga @ 9:51 AM
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So after looking at what could be improved in my game to keep my stack from being so volitile. So I took it upon myself to do some reading. "Super System".
I haven't ever played much limit (as I never had any success with it). Now that I've been playing poker for the last few years the information I'm reading really means something.
I'm not totally surprised at how many things I was just doing wrong or just not doing at all.
All I can say is I think it's going to take a few months of limit play to change all my bad habits. So I'm going to keep it rather cheap and work my way through the learning curve.
Here I'm talking about switching to Limit and you seem to be switching to NL. Have you decided Slow and Steady is no longer quick enough? Or have you decided you have become solid enough with your decisions that you will be more successful at NL?
Since I've started posting I need an ID.....
Poker Hack
Poker Hack,
It is good to post a name or ID with the comments so that I know who I am talking with.
I love limit poker. As you may have read I was playing the 5/10 level and doing pretty darn well at it. So why am I playing NL?????
Well I was headed to Atlantic City and I would only play NL live. Limit poker at a casino at my level is nuts. You have 7 people seeing every river. It is just not a winnable game I feel. Fortunately online is a much different story. I will tell you though I would not play lower than 1/2 limit (2/4 is preferable). People seem to call anything lower than that.
So I wanted to practice NL poker and picked it up at Pokershare. So far I have been doing pretty well. The tough calls and bad beats hurt more, but overall I am making good decisions. Sometimes it does not work out though. I will give you an example.
Today I have the QhJh in LP. Someone raised it to $6 and we get 4 callers. I have to call to see a flop getting those odds. The flop comes AhKh7c. The orginal raiser makes it $20 and then two people go allin. I am figuring that one or both may have a set, but now I am getting at least 3.5-1 odds on my flush/straight draw which is exactly what I would need to make the call. I call and the original raiser calls. The hands are AA, 77, QJo, and my QhJh. Of course nothing else comes out and the AA takes it. It would have been a nice $400+ pot but instead I get nothing.
Anyway good luck on limit and feel free to bounce things off of me as you approach them.
More from Poker Hack,
I hear what you are saying about the cheaper limit games. Yet I don't have my game down well enough to feel like I should play 2/4 yet. I realize that playing .50/1 is not going to be a true practice run to higher limit games.
That being said here is my concept for playing .50/1. I am going to try and stick with much more premium hands regardless of position. This at the very least will have me well practiced in the art of the PreFlop fold.
On hands that I feel were a potential playing hand, I'll just keep track of what my actions would be had I been in the hand.
I do not expect that I will make much money at all but I've got a cheat sheet that I need to "burn into my head". Once I feel that I'm no longer using that crutch. I'll make the jump.
Regarding your comments about the casino limit games. Would you mind posting what limits online are comparable to Casino Limits?
Is the action in a 1/2 online game similar to a 5/10 game at a casino? Very interested in how you line them up. This way I might have a better gague of what I might play at a casino.
Thanks!
Poker Hack
Bill, hello from your buddy over in Alpharetta, although your choice in sports teams really needs a lot of work....
Go EAGLES, GO Braves.
But good work on your blog, look forward to reading it each night.
Also read MattM blog, thought
I would pass along the free blogger tournament they are doing.
http://www.mattmatros.com/journal.htm
and good luck out in double stack land, I got lucky today and won the 6k at 2pm. (well we chopped it for final 2) but it was a great rush, 26 into 1500 is a lot of fun.
Jason Steel
atl_holdemfan on full tilt
Poker Hack,
They have told me that if you can beat 5/10 online then you can beat 20/40 live. I would expect that if you can beat 2/4 online then you can beat 10/20 live, certainly a 7.50/15 game. It just seems that the live players at those limit are just bad. I personally would choose NL live becasue you just cant get people to fold at the 4/8 level live.
Jason,
We are definitely at odds with sports teams. Congrats on the cash at Full Tilt, that is awesome!!! What did that do for your bankroll????
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