Tourney attempts and Sit-n-Go

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SfydjkLm Belarus. Jul 10 2008 23:23. Posts 3810

Today i played 1 hour before and 1 hour after work, crushing the .05/.1 tables. A bit bored with fish i decided to try something i've been wanting to do for a while now- a tournament. Now for the past 2 weeks i've been watching unhealthy amounts of WPT/WSOP/High Stakes poker in the timeslot of my schedule previously dedicated to watching an unhealthy amount of illegally obtained movies.

I started out with a 10 FPP turbo tournament. I tried to mix it up and play aggressive and it was semi-successful until i shoved all in with pocket 9s(i saw them do it on TV!)- against pocket Aces. Now i was somewhat shortstacked but imo i shoulda folded em when he reraised my raise instead of going all in. I finished somewhere halfway the field at 21xx of 55xx.

Then i started the NL Holdem freeroll(the satellite to some 2k tournament). I decided to be my normal self- a nit(hopefully im using this term correctly)> It worked real well at first, and by the time about 3/4 of the players were eliminated i was at 97 out of 2 something thousand. Unfortunately i wasnt getting to many hands after that and my nittiness stopped me from bluffing and what not. My last hand was an 88 all in against AK suited, the board came blankTTJJ. Blah! I finished just 74 places out of getting the satellite ticket at 173rd out of 12thousand. Now i'd like to say 173rd out of 12k is a good result, but i recall myself placing in that range way back when I was just playing poker for fun. Ill give myself a pat on the back anyway- I really doubt the players in this tourney are much worse then in the penny ones i took part in=)).

My third one was a .25 buyin tourney, it ended soon too because of my mistake when i slowplayed a pair of Aces and ran into flush. Real bad play by me, finished 2200 out of 3189.

Fourth was another 10 FPP turbo, and here i just got slaughtered by the increasing blinds not able to get a half decent hand. Every time i folded preflop something like 72o flop came 72x or whatnot. In the end i lost two big pots with 66 against TT and 22 against TT. Damn pocket tens.

To get my spirits up i signed up for a 'dolla twany' SnG- the first one for me ever really. Ive played freeroll tourneys before but SnG-never. It went as planned, i was a nit up until only 4 players were left. I quickly went up in chips, almost eliminatin 4th player calling an all in bluff. He covered me however and in the next few hands managed to get from 210 chips to chip lead, mostly with 2s too, pocketpair, a set, 2nd pair for Kings. Quiet funny really. After a while though i've managed to eliminate him after all and from there on made an easy job of the other two players. EZ fo fiddy.

Im considering building stack now on SNG instead of 5/10 for a while- SnGs seem to be significantly closer to the real poker- i know i've only done one but in that time i've bluffed, called bluffs, played tight and aggressive, instead of just playing the nuts on numerous fish filled dime tables.

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