Well, tonight I played for a while, and started off pretty promising, winning my first $10 game and grabbing the $45 the win entailed. I then went on a pretty horrible losing streak. It felt like I just wasn't playing 'my' game but rather just 'robot poker' where I did everything without really thinking.. no BAD decisions, but no real good ones either, I'd bet too high when I had good cards, or when a pot was stealable, I would just let someone with a higher card than me win...
basically just a bunch of small stupid mistakes that I KNOW not to make. So, I took a short break, drank some water, mixed my creatine, and sat back down, ready to play GOOD poker.
And when I got back I ended up winning the next two games and I decided to call it quits for the night:
Saturday Night/Sunday morning May 26/27 2007
$10+$1 sng 9 handed: IIIIII- 6 total
money made: $45, $45
$10+$1 sng 45 handed: I
Money made:$0$
2.50+$0.25 big: I
money made: $0
$10+1 sng 27 handed: II- 2 total
money made: $100
total money invested: 66+11+2.75+22= $101.75
total money earned: $190
total profit for the night: $88.25
Now, to understand this, the 'sng' means 'sit and go tournament' and the '+1' is the fee the site charges to provide the game. When i say '9 handed' it means there are 9 people (including myself) in the game. A table generally holds 9 people.
Well, I guess thats about it, just wanted to tell you guys. Sometime I'll start talking about interesting people/hands...
Ending stats:
Online win/loss: +88.25
Live games: -$5
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Well, I guess thats ONE way to kick it off
Well, since today is the first day of 'recorded poker' I suppose I must report my first game I've played as such. It was one of our many 'barracks games' that we play here, pretty casual, and the best rule in the world: rank is.. nonexistant.
Buy-in: $5+R (the '+R' means you can rebuy if you get busted out.. its a way to increase the prize pool and keep the weaker players playing for longer)
Total Players: 8
Total Prize pool: $50
The night started off like normal- lots of raising and calling with pretty crappy cards, and at one point in time if I had called (with a bad hand) I would have hit quads (four of a kind). Still, I was biding my time, only calling with hands I figured were best, and was slowly building my chipstack, when a situation arose:
A girl who was sitting on a small chipstack pushed all-in, the OTHER short-stack (what you call someone without many chips) thought for a minute and just smiled and also went all-in. The chip leader of the game (who plays with pretty bad cards and gets lucky quite a bit or busts out really fast in a game) decided to JUST call, and I looked at my hand while I was on the button... to see QQ (pocket queens). I was the 2nd chip leader, and ONLY calling would put me in a bad spot if an Ace or King came out on the flop, so I decided to go all-in and hopefully make the chip-leader fold his hand or at the very least I'd win a big side pot from him since I was pretty sure my queens were good.
Anyways, he calls my all-in, and everyone flips their cards over: chipleader and the first player to go all-in BOTH have KQ off-suit, and the other guy had 9-5 offsuit (offsuit means the cards in their hand aren't the same suit). I'm sitting VERY nicely to eliminate 2 players and just about triple up my stack, almost taking the chipleader out of the game, since there ARE no queens left in the deck, and the only 2 cards I need to worry about are K's. I'm more than a 5:1 favorite to win this hand going into the flop when... a K came out and suddenly I was out.
I guess it goes to show that even if you wait for your perfect spot, sometimes it just doesn't work out for you. If that exact situation happened 6 times, I would only lose once, with the other 5 turning out as a win for me. So, would I do it again? yessir.. every time. A good poker player can't be afraid to take those sorts of 'educated' risks, and if I HAD won that, I would have been positioned to win the game. Still, if you can't mentally handle losing when your hand is clearly the best and you SHOULD have won, you shouldn't be playing.
So, after a somewhat disappointing night, my stats are:
Total money won at poker since the start of this blog: -$5
haha, sad story. take it easy y'all!
Buy-in: $5+R (the '+R' means you can rebuy if you get busted out.. its a way to increase the prize pool and keep the weaker players playing for longer)
Total Players: 8
Total Prize pool: $50
The night started off like normal- lots of raising and calling with pretty crappy cards, and at one point in time if I had called (with a bad hand) I would have hit quads (four of a kind). Still, I was biding my time, only calling with hands I figured were best, and was slowly building my chipstack, when a situation arose:
A girl who was sitting on a small chipstack pushed all-in, the OTHER short-stack (what you call someone without many chips) thought for a minute and just smiled and also went all-in. The chip leader of the game (who plays with pretty bad cards and gets lucky quite a bit or busts out really fast in a game) decided to JUST call, and I looked at my hand while I was on the button... to see QQ (pocket queens). I was the 2nd chip leader, and ONLY calling would put me in a bad spot if an Ace or King came out on the flop, so I decided to go all-in and hopefully make the chip-leader fold his hand or at the very least I'd win a big side pot from him since I was pretty sure my queens were good.
Anyways, he calls my all-in, and everyone flips their cards over: chipleader and the first player to go all-in BOTH have KQ off-suit, and the other guy had 9-5 offsuit (offsuit means the cards in their hand aren't the same suit). I'm sitting VERY nicely to eliminate 2 players and just about triple up my stack, almost taking the chipleader out of the game, since there ARE no queens left in the deck, and the only 2 cards I need to worry about are K's. I'm more than a 5:1 favorite to win this hand going into the flop when... a K came out and suddenly I was out.
I guess it goes to show that even if you wait for your perfect spot, sometimes it just doesn't work out for you. If that exact situation happened 6 times, I would only lose once, with the other 5 turning out as a win for me. So, would I do it again? yessir.. every time. A good poker player can't be afraid to take those sorts of 'educated' risks, and if I HAD won that, I would have been positioned to win the game. Still, if you can't mentally handle losing when your hand is clearly the best and you SHOULD have won, you shouldn't be playing.
So, after a somewhat disappointing night, my stats are:
Total money won at poker since the start of this blog: -$5
haha, sad story. take it easy y'all!
An explaination
Hey there, friends and family and pretty much anyone that wants to read in on this ridiculous misadventure. I've created this blog not only to help ME keep track of my current progress, but also to help the people close to me to understand the poker world better.
So tonight I'll start small. I want to explain the two different 'types' of poker in which people generally make money:
Tournaments:
A tournament is what you see on TV most of the time. People pay money to be able to play, and are each given a certain amount of chips at the start of the game. The game is played until EVERYONE runs out of chips except for the last person who... wins. Money is doled out by what place you take, first getting quite a bit more than any of the other places. For instance, in a 9 person game, if everyone pays $10 to get into the game (for a total prize pool of $90) 3rd place gets $18, 2nd gets $27, and 1st gets the lion share of $45, which is half of the pot. 4th-9th place get ZERO.
Cash Games:
Cash games are quite a bit different than tournaments. In a tournament, if you run out of chips, you're out, and you can't play anymore in that particular game. In a cash game if you run out of chips, you can just reach into your wallet and buy more chips. You're allowed to cash out whenever you feel like it, or play for 30 hours straight, whatever you want. This is actually the sort of game people generally get 'addicted' to and can't stop playing, even after losing immense amounts of money. Lots of pros will play this sort of game because if they can get someone rich to play with them, they'll ALL have a pretty nice payday, even if the rest of the table has a bunch of pros sitting there. All they need is one 'fish' to make it worth their while. One thing I'd like to point out to avoid confusion: tournament poker IS played for cash, but it isn't a 'cash game'.
Now then, what sort of poker player am I? I play both types, but I generally like to play in tournaments. We'll see if I start playing more cash games as my poker skill develops. Anyways, hopefully this is a good first post, please, I welcome ALL comments! I love comments! I'd love to explain things that you're confused about, assuming it doesn't ALSO confuse me :P
Take 'er easy!
-Trike
So tonight I'll start small. I want to explain the two different 'types' of poker in which people generally make money:
Tournaments:
A tournament is what you see on TV most of the time. People pay money to be able to play, and are each given a certain amount of chips at the start of the game. The game is played until EVERYONE runs out of chips except for the last person who... wins. Money is doled out by what place you take, first getting quite a bit more than any of the other places. For instance, in a 9 person game, if everyone pays $10 to get into the game (for a total prize pool of $90) 3rd place gets $18, 2nd gets $27, and 1st gets the lion share of $45, which is half of the pot. 4th-9th place get ZERO.
Cash Games:
Cash games are quite a bit different than tournaments. In a tournament, if you run out of chips, you're out, and you can't play anymore in that particular game. In a cash game if you run out of chips, you can just reach into your wallet and buy more chips. You're allowed to cash out whenever you feel like it, or play for 30 hours straight, whatever you want. This is actually the sort of game people generally get 'addicted' to and can't stop playing, even after losing immense amounts of money. Lots of pros will play this sort of game because if they can get someone rich to play with them, they'll ALL have a pretty nice payday, even if the rest of the table has a bunch of pros sitting there. All they need is one 'fish' to make it worth their while. One thing I'd like to point out to avoid confusion: tournament poker IS played for cash, but it isn't a 'cash game'.
Now then, what sort of poker player am I? I play both types, but I generally like to play in tournaments. We'll see if I start playing more cash games as my poker skill develops. Anyways, hopefully this is a good first post, please, I welcome ALL comments! I love comments! I'd love to explain things that you're confused about, assuming it doesn't ALSO confuse me :P
Take 'er easy!
-Trike
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