First post, epic comeback included!!!

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dafcnz Canada. Mar 11 2008 13:23. Posts 303

Hey guys, this is my first blog post so I wanted to introduce myself a bit before touching onto anything. The name's Francis but my friends called me Frank. I currently reside in Sherbrooke, Quebec (yes, I am french-canadian). Quick story for those of you with Starcraft background, I actually wore the XDS tag just as my fellow frenchie Guillaume Patry (Although he doesn't know me, I played Counter-Strike for XDS). I hear he plays poker professionally now too :o Apart from that, I have been playing poker for fun for about 2-3 years, played about a dozen live games (I actually have never lost a tournament or left negative in a live cash game) and played online with play money alot. Just started a BR with the 50$ bonus on IPN, barely over so far but I wanted to play a good 10k hands at micro to get a feel of playing with my actual money. I will try to keep the blog updated with my status, funny stories and my online findings.

Now that I've introduced myself, here's a story from today!

Epic comeback in the 7,500$ GP Rebuy NLHE Tournament on IPN.
So I decide that cashgames are boring at the moment and that I should play a tournament. My choice stops on the 7,500$ GP Rebuy (5$+0.50). I sign up, along with 553 other players. I start with AA (woohoo) and double up first hand. I then slowly build up my stack to around 40k when things go real bad.

Theres about 100 players left and as I said I have about 40k in chips, being 3rd on my table. I make a decent call but get unlucky on the river and go down to about 20k. I then play a bad hand about 3 hands after that I lose on showdown and remain with 300$. At this point I know my tournament is over. The blinds are 500/1,000 and I am on BB. I somehow win that hand with 4 players in it and climb up to around 1.5k, just to go all-in on the next hand and triple up to roughly 5k. 2 hands later I triple up again to 15k and somehow I seem to be back in the game with maybe enough to last until after the bubble. Well turns out well after the bubble and about 25 minutes after I was down to 300, I am up with a stack of 208,000 and chip leader of the tournament!!!

I was aiming for the top5 prizes at that point but two arguable calls, high blinds and playing a bit too aggressive got me a 17th place and 72.37$. Not bad for my first real money tournament ever! :D

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KeyleK_uk United Kingdom. Mar 11 2008 13:32. Posts 1687

well played

Ur gonna be in trouble play 5 dollar mtts from a 120 roll

poker is soooo much easier when you flop sets

Python817 Canada. Mar 11 2008 13:49. Posts 2733

non existent bankroll management playing $5 mtt with 9 buyins

Three7MTL Canada. Mar 11 2008 15:00. Posts 597

bien joué, mais idem que pour les deux autres précédents, surtout pour un mTT ou ton ROI% est >10% et les chances de faire une table finale très slim, faudrait pas courir le risque de perdre ton roll a petit feu : P. A moins que t'essaie d'être degen et de maximiser en un moins de temps mais bon.

Good luck!!! : )

dafcnz Canada. Mar 11 2008 15:34. Posts 303

Hehe, I know it was retarded bankroll management but I really was bored with cash games for today (plus my day didn't start great, tilted a bit) so I played the tournament for fun and because I know people would be less prone to call with random hands and gimme bad beats. This isn't something I had done before or will re-do (although 5hrs for 80$ is better than my current profit rate grinding micros so my degen move worked quite well). I just thought the comeback from 300 was sick! I'll probably post some of the hands once I understand how to It really wasn't a strategy to make money but more of me feeling good and trying to grab that 1,950$ first place prize hehe.

Oh and thanks for the comments guys :D

Sheitan Canada. Mar 11 2008 16:04. Posts 4217

Good strategy to go broke fast. Avoid mtts and focus on micro sngs, they are the easiest way to build your br until you reach 300$, then switch to nl10 and find da grind from here =) have fun !

Odds are exactly 50%, either happens or it doesnt