Ballin tourneys.....not ballin ring

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phexac United States. Oct 09 2007 23:51. Posts 2563

Since my last post, I worked on some technical aspects of tournament play, focusing mainly on conducting the right type of analysis during the hand. If my results are to be believed, I am doing something right.

This month I got 5th in one of the daily $55 50k Gtd., got 37th in the next one I played, made it into the money in Sunday Million (I went up to 50k chips pretty quickly and promptly went card dead. I maintained the stack for a while, but eventually the blinds were starting to catch up with me. I made my move and busted). I used FPP to buy in, so it was actually a decent cash since I did not pay the buyin fee. Was doing well in the Absolute 75k gtd until I made a dumb move and busted just under 30 short of making money. A few other minor cashes that aren't really worth mentioning. All in all, I am up about 3.5k in tourneys since the beginning of the month.

Now, while the tournaments went well, Stars clearly decided that owning tourneys meant I did not need good cards in ring. So far in October I'm down about 13 buyins over 17k hands at NL100. Not a big deal since that's a small portion of my roll, and my tournaments mean I am well up overall, buy fuckin' eh! Every single setup/bad beat that can happen, did happen. My personal favorite was flopping full house and getting owned by runner-runner royal.

I made a few mistakes in the process that I would not have made if I had been running better, but I would estimate they were responsible for 3 BIs at most. Generally I feel I am not tilting so there is no reason to take a break from ring.

My goal for the rest of the month is get my ring results back in the green for the month while playing some regular tournaments a few days a week. I just need to make sure that I keep up the logical analysis of my plays as I play ring. I have been working on my value bets and getting the most value out of my good hands. The testament to that is that I am 5 for 5 at tricking the pocket Aces to go all-in versus my Kings.

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Nitting it up since 2006

T8Suited Canada. Oct 10 2007 00:33. Posts 1276

Why don't you consider just sticking to what you're good at

Myself I tried SNG multiple times, but every time I concluded that ring is more fun and more profitable for me

phexac United States. Oct 10 2007 01:21. Posts 2563

I do good in ring...normally. Last month I was up about 2k in ring. It really is just a bad streak. As long as I do not tilt while it's going on, I should be fine.

Nitting it up since 2006