Waiting and Waiting
I'm still waiting on a payout from Casino.net. I didn't expect it to take this long. Tomorrow is five business days, so maybe I'm just impatient.While waiting, I started reading Winning Low Limit Hold 'em by Lee Jones.
It's a much easier read than SSH, but I wonder if he took some EV shortcuts to make the play a little easier. His examples make a whole lot of sense, and I'd highly recommend this book to someone who wants to get a quick edge on the game. I'm about 1/3 of the way into it, so I'll post more about it when I'm finished. The plan is to read it through once, read it a second time while taking notes, and then memorize the notes. I should have it all down pretty well vy Valentine's Day.Tournaments
In the last post, I said that I was going to look for some freerolls to pass the time. I only have accounts on four poker sites, and I don't want to open any others if it will mean missing out on a potential bonus. The 2 UK sites (Sporting Bet and Casino.net) have some decent daily freerolls, but they are in the early afternoon. I intended to play them this weekend, but I forgot all about them.
Since nothing else is available in the evenings, I've been playing the "play money" tournaments on Poker Stars. I know that these games aren't very realistic, but I found that the do tighten up quite a bit when you get to the final table. I played my 5th 45-player NL tournament this evening and won it in a fairly interesting fashion:
Preflop: Hero is BB with [ Qc 5d ]
Villian raises 1600 to 2400
(I thought I'd push him off the pot)
Hero raises 5600 to 8000
Villian said, "lets end it here"
Villian raises 20945 to 28945 and is all-in
(He probably doesn't have a pair, and as long as he doesn't have a K or A, I'm OK. Maybe this is a bad call, but I'm the chip leader by a couple thousand...)
Hero calls 20945
Villian shows [ As 3s ] (Uh oh!)
*** FLOP *** [9c Js 4d]
*** TURN *** [9c Js 4d] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [9c Js 4d Td] [8d]
Showdown:
Hero shows [Qc 5d] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
Villian shows [As 3s] (high card Ace)
Hero collected 57990 from pot
I came in 4th on the previous tournament (AA beat my KK), 6th on the one before that (ITM), and 17th the first two. I'll mess around with these a little while longer and then try some of the low limit multi-tables at the next casino. Hopefully the play is similar.
posted by Kent @ 8:49 PM
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