Well. That's that. Just busted in 3216. These two hands had a lot to do it:
I knew you had nothing
And,
lol
ok well. back to my homework now.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
FTOPS 1st break
ok here we are on the first break.
I'm sitting at 4290 chips, a bit under the starting stack of 5000. Haven't really been able to do much yet. My table seems unremarkable thus far, with a couple of the fish busting early so that doesn't really help things in terms of trying to get something going.
I had one potentially big hand that I think I screwed up:
J8d in big blind
Was hoping to get in a check-push on the turn, but whiffed. The river card sucks cuz it kills my action, and my hand looks exactly like a flush. But I figured at that point my best bet was an overbet to look like a bluff. Or in case HE has the flush, I'm making him pay for it. But his hand doesn't look like a flush at all; my guess is that he had a medium-big Jack. He did tank forever, but eventually folded :(
Here's another hand that went badly:
River bluff-raise
I wanted to pounce on that river bet of 200 since it looked so weak, and this guy has been playing tight so I thought I could make him fold. I guess the question is, what am I trying to represent? Well, I'd play a set this way, or a 5, and check that turn when I hit my house or trips. I also could have clubs. But my bet size sucks; I didn't do the math carefully because I'm only making him call 600 for a pot of 1400 at that point. So yeah, that's silly.
Anyways. Back at it.
I'm sitting at 4290 chips, a bit under the starting stack of 5000. Haven't really been able to do much yet. My table seems unremarkable thus far, with a couple of the fish busting early so that doesn't really help things in terms of trying to get something going.
I had one potentially big hand that I think I screwed up:
J8d in big blind
Was hoping to get in a check-push on the turn, but whiffed. The river card sucks cuz it kills my action, and my hand looks exactly like a flush. But I figured at that point my best bet was an overbet to look like a bluff. Or in case HE has the flush, I'm making him pay for it. But his hand doesn't look like a flush at all; my guess is that he had a medium-big Jack. He did tank forever, but eventually folded :(
Here's another hand that went badly:
River bluff-raise
I wanted to pounce on that river bet of 200 since it looked so weak, and this guy has been playing tight so I thought I could make him fold. I guess the question is, what am I trying to represent? Well, I'd play a set this way, or a 5, and check that turn when I hit my house or trips. I also could have clubs. But my bet size sucks; I didn't do the math carefully because I'm only making him call 600 for a pot of 1400 at that point. So yeah, that's silly.
Anyways. Back at it.
FTOPS Main Event
So I've barely been playing any poker these days since school has been killing me.
But somehow, on Friday night, I won a satellite into the FTOPS Main Event, which is a $500+35 buy-in tournament.
This is gonna be interesting, since I don't even know if I remember how to play.
It just started, and there are 4371 entrants with top 585 getting paid. 1st place is just over $385,000.
And away we go...
But somehow, on Friday night, I won a satellite into the FTOPS Main Event, which is a $500+35 buy-in tournament.
This is gonna be interesting, since I don't even know if I remember how to play.
It just started, and there are 4371 entrants with top 585 getting paid. 1st place is just over $385,000.
And away we go...
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