Tournament Woes
I've been giving some tournaments a try lately. Not that I haven't in the past, but every couple days I might give one a try, and I have not been able to cash for the life of me. Before I went to the WPT I was killing every tourney I was in for a few weeks. Not that I made a ton, but I wasn't in any big ones either, and then I won the seat. Since then I have been having some serious troubles with them. All the donkey's keep screwing me.
I played the $50+4 MTT tonight at PokerRoom, and couldn't get a hand to save my life, but I picked up enough little pots to keep my head above water. There were 174 entries, and top 30 got paid. I was basically bouncing between 35-40th place for most of the time past the mid point in the tourney. Just couldn't catch a hand to jump any higher though, I would lose some and then get a few back. Steal a blind, then get mine stolen cause my cards were horrid.
Finally with blinds at 100/200 and about to go up. I get AJo in the BB. It folds around to the SB who raises me to 400. I figure they might do this with a lot of hands I have beat. In fact I was pretty certain I had them killed. I only had about 3,000 left, so I went over the top All-In, hoping they could let go of whatever mediocre hand they raised with. Well I was wrong. They turned up A8 against my AJ.
Flop was 993 (And i'm thinking... here it comes... please no 8, please no 8)
Turn is of course a big fat juicy 8!!!
So it leaves me with like 150 and I'm out shortly thereafter in 51st place. It's just so frustrating. I know in the past few tournaments, I have played a bit overagressive and cost myself a little too much trying to make plays on people who were unplayable donkeys! So in this one I decided for $50, I can't fuck around and be a crazy guy. I need to go back to my old style that was working for me before. Which I did, and things were going fine... Even being fairly shortstacked most of the time, I felt comfortable that I was playing well and making all the right decisions. I only had to be all-in one time before that AJ fiasco. I had AK and doubled up against 66. Which is the way I like it, to minimize my All-Ins, and try getting the most out of the hands I do get. Then of course, I go up against a hand I have completely dominated, and they outrdaw me and I'm back on the rail again.
I guess I can be happy that I played well. Probably better than I have the past few weeks, but still... I hate busting out of tournaments more than anything. Talk about a downer. I really hope sometime soon I can make something good happen again. Because I was doing so good in tourney's before the WPT, and I figured I could actually turn some good profit from them after that nice run. But I don't think I have cashed in one MTT since I got back. Plus I have been focusing on my limit game more, which is going fairly well. I actually paid for most of the entry to the tournament tonight from a 2/4 game earlier. Which is why I could justify even paying $50 for it. So here's to new focus, and stop donkey'ing around in tournaments. I played well tonight and just need a little help from the cards next time. Please!
I played the $50+4 MTT tonight at PokerRoom, and couldn't get a hand to save my life, but I picked up enough little pots to keep my head above water. There were 174 entries, and top 30 got paid. I was basically bouncing between 35-40th place for most of the time past the mid point in the tourney. Just couldn't catch a hand to jump any higher though, I would lose some and then get a few back. Steal a blind, then get mine stolen cause my cards were horrid.
Finally with blinds at 100/200 and about to go up. I get AJo in the BB. It folds around to the SB who raises me to 400. I figure they might do this with a lot of hands I have beat. In fact I was pretty certain I had them killed. I only had about 3,000 left, so I went over the top All-In, hoping they could let go of whatever mediocre hand they raised with. Well I was wrong. They turned up A8 against my AJ.
Flop was 993 (And i'm thinking... here it comes... please no 8, please no 8)
Turn is of course a big fat juicy 8!!!
So it leaves me with like 150 and I'm out shortly thereafter in 51st place. It's just so frustrating. I know in the past few tournaments, I have played a bit overagressive and cost myself a little too much trying to make plays on people who were unplayable donkeys! So in this one I decided for $50, I can't fuck around and be a crazy guy. I need to go back to my old style that was working for me before. Which I did, and things were going fine... Even being fairly shortstacked most of the time, I felt comfortable that I was playing well and making all the right decisions. I only had to be all-in one time before that AJ fiasco. I had AK and doubled up against 66. Which is the way I like it, to minimize my All-Ins, and try getting the most out of the hands I do get. Then of course, I go up against a hand I have completely dominated, and they outrdaw me and I'm back on the rail again.
I guess I can be happy that I played well. Probably better than I have the past few weeks, but still... I hate busting out of tournaments more than anything. Talk about a downer. I really hope sometime soon I can make something good happen again. Because I was doing so good in tourney's before the WPT, and I figured I could actually turn some good profit from them after that nice run. But I don't think I have cashed in one MTT since I got back. Plus I have been focusing on my limit game more, which is going fairly well. I actually paid for most of the entry to the tournament tonight from a 2/4 game earlier. Which is why I could justify even paying $50 for it. So here's to new focus, and stop donkey'ing around in tournaments. I played well tonight and just need a little help from the cards next time. Please!
posted by Kurt at 9:46 PM
1 Comments:
hey man, that's a bummer. Keep plugging and I'm sure you'll cash soon. This is Jordan from FCP. I check out some random blogs from time to time and thought I'd leave a msg for once. Good luck..and if u want, i have a blog linked thru jayson's website. Later.
- Jordan
ps, my blogspot poker blog is quite old...if u somehow find it.
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