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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Jul 25 2010 05:19. Posts 15163 | | |
In order to revive my motivation for poker, I decided it might be worthwhile if I actually try to play the real thing.
The only time I played poker in my life was when I was on a floor ball age 13 camp where we played 5card draw with pennies.
So last night I took £33, and headed for a casino (which is about 7 minute walk from my flat) to go for a freezeout tourney.
Circus casino Edinburgh
It really surprised me how the casino felt like any other entertainment facility, with standard pub price beer and food and large projector with football on. The card room has about 20 poker tables there, and had an internal league tourney, a stud tourney and a £1/£2 game running. The only bad thing was that air conditioning was broken, so it was like 30 Celsius in there - good for me losing weight at least, and free drinks all night were served to compensate.
Tourney
The tourney itself was a 'Second Chance' which I didn't know what the fuck that meant. Like an hour into the tourney I realized that the one yellow 50 chip I have is exchangeable for 3,500 chips, and if you keep the chip you can transfer even after you busto.
I had the standard problems at the beginning, always asking people for whats in the pot and how much to raise. Later in the tourney when I doubled up I had a ridiculous number of chips and it took me an orbit or two to actually know what the hell is in my stack, and I had this problem throughout the day.
I was also confused when seats were changed to other tables, but the biggest challenge was dealing.
Thats right, they do not assign dealers for MTTs, and who gets the highest card has to deal.
First time I was on I just gave up, but the second time (18 people to go or so) I was forced to do it. This was the biggest fail, where I had to burn some 7 cards which I turned face up and my shuffling was by no means a proper shuffle, and I had to ask how many I burn at every street (its one lol ;D). Still a good experience, and it clearly just takes practice.
My performance
I was playing standard bronze pokerstrategy level chart poker. I probably made a mistake at the beginning when an old (and pretty annoying) regular raised pre and cbet almost AI on flop for 40bbs, and I called him off with jacks. (AA)
Since then it was push or fold for me almost all 6 hours, I played like 2 hands postflop the whole tourney lols.
Probably the funniest moment was when it was 16 to go and I had A5s in the sb with 13bbs - very very standard push. But as the regs are total retards and they love to talk I did something I learned to do - pretend to think heavily for 1-2 minutes while waiting for something retarded from the bb.
And it came - dude who previously folded to my 5bb Small blind shove and showed me an ace told me to fold in a very interested manner, a thing he has never done before. I giggled inside, turbofolded, and the mofo showed KK :D
The number of obvious reads that can be seen even with my 0 experienced eyes was ridiculous, the guys are always chatting about what they have, they love to show cards for some reason, and one dude was particularly funny when he all of a sudden check raised for the first time and became *really* interested in the darts on projector behind us and his drink when he always kept staring at the table in the previous pots.
He had a nut straight ofc -.-
Technically the people are retarded too, it seems to be standard to limp fold utg with 4BBs left with almost everyone, and to fold to 1k chip into 10k pot on river where there were no draws on turn.
I ended up pretty card dead in the end and I was coolered by a 12bb dude with AQ vs AK bu v sb to keep me on the shortstack till the end. I shoved 44 for my last 5big blinds/some 60k chips to end up 7th in a field of 60-70 and $100 cash.
Not bad for a first actual play of poker in my life.
Playing life
I got a new motivation for online poker, and pretty strong one. Life poker is so much fun, and the £1/£2 game running there is super juicy. 3-4 bad regs (the very same that limp fold with 4bbs left in a tourney), old geezers, and an old lady who burned some £800 that night while I was there.
This is awesome and I want to play in that, but first I need to build roll online to afford it. I think the people are so bad I can play with some 12BI comfortably - my motivation is now to make that online as I will never use my own money to play poker.
Although I will probably get a part time job in September (I need some sales or customer contact experience, as I would like to get into a Management Graduate scheme with one of the major banks after I graduate - I work in Finance dept right now with internal customers only), I can totally see myself being a pro with combination of life and online poker - it really breaks the stereotype and life poker forces me to think about shit before I act.
The obvious negative of live play will make it close to impossible to make as a student aiming at a 1:1 degree (70%+ average mark from all subjects) - the tourney took 6 hours where I busted in 7th place, and would take 7.5hrs for the winner, and the best cash games run between 10pm-3am in the local casino it seems.
I will probably have to wait until my planned gap year when I finish my degree to do proper 24 hour grinding sessions, but it sure seems like lots of fun -.-
Thanks for reading,
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heh, nice story.
I totally hate live unless I'm drunk though  . |
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SfydjkLm Belarus. Jul 25 2010 09:28. Posts 3810 | | | |
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Spicy United States. Jul 25 2010 11:17. Posts 1027 | | |
Thanks for the story. Made me want to play live for the first time even more than I already do, but I'm in China for the next few weeks so |
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acdawg712 United States. Jul 25 2010 12:13. Posts 2639 | | |
live is awesome and it's pretty nice to play 1/2 against people who are at the same level as 0.05/0.10(fish) -0.25/0.50(the best) players online. |
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NewbSaibot United States. Jul 25 2010 13:49. Posts 4946 | | |
Dont need 12 BI's to play live if you're bankroll building at the lowest limit. It's not like youre gonna have a 5 BI downswing in 100 hands one-tabling. Just show up with a couple of buyins and if the poker gods dont fuck you you'll be self-rolled in like a week. |
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BangYu United States. Jul 25 2010 14:03. Posts 251 | | |
| | On July 25 2010 12:49 NewbSaibot wrote:
Dont need 12 BI's to play live if you're bankroll building at the lowest limit. It's not like youre gonna have a 5 BI downswing in 100 hands one-tabling. Just show up with a couple of buyins and if the poker gods dont fuck you you'll be self-rolled in like a week. |
not true |
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Naib Hungary. Jul 25 2010 17:39. Posts 968 | | |
| | On July 25 2010 12:49 NewbSaibot wrote:
Dont need 12 BI's to play live if you're bankroll building at the lowest limit. It's not like youre gonna have a 5 BI downswing in 100 hands one-tabling. Just show up with a couple of buyins and if the poker gods dont fuck you you'll be self-rolled in like a week. |
Looking at your blogs one would begin to wonder if one should actually listen to your advice! |
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