Thursday, June 25, 2009

A Birthday win

Things started badly last night - knocked out in 7 hands of my first tourney overplaying KJ against a bad player. He raised my big blind from the small, I defended - board came KK8. Do you ever fold there in a SNG? No way. He could be overplaying a pair (Aces/Queens/Jacks) - he doesn't have to have the last king.

But he did- KQ. Whoopsie.

Needed a change of pace, so I signed up for an 18 man, $11 tourney. I went down in level to hopefully get a few more inexperienced players at my table and improve my chances. This worked early - I was able to flop a set of sixes and win a decent pot to put me at 2400 or so chips early. Then the tables shuffled and it seemed like all the bad players were on table 2, and I was on table 1 with all the good players.

I did manage to win the tourney - some good practice for my live 30-45 man monthly tourney coming up tomorrow. I felt very "tuned in" to the action and the ability to put players on ranges of hands. I was also able to make some nice bubble moves, playing on people's fears of going out when there was a tiny stack at the table.

I am considering annotating the hand history for this tourney as an exercise - I will post it up if I decide to do so.

Tonight is our live cash game, tomorrow is the monthly tourney. Poker in my future, can't wait...

2 comments:

Memphis MOJO said...

Happy Birthday and congrats on the win.

bastinptc said...

Happy belated.