My Poker Journal

[Musicmannn]

Poker is about making good decisions. When you got it in w KK and AA v smaller PP, you had HUGE positive equity (81%). You have to take those chances---that is what good poker is. You will win if you keep making those decisions. Trust yourself!

[plutogon]

ya bro just play ur hands. Ur read on the guy was correct. KK vs AQ is great for you. U just got unlucky. I'll take that any day. Just keep playing ur game and your good decisions will be rewarded.

[Joe]

I just finished playing the 10pm po freeroll (or maybe it should be called a point-roll) and I finished in third.
I am very happy with my results especially since I got into a few bad situations where I had about 10 big blinds or less. I made some stupid calls where I probably should of folded instead. These bad situations came before the money when we were down to the final two or three tables so I ended up just barely making it into the money.
Once I got into the money I played pretty much all in or fold and I quickly moved back up to over ten big blinds.
I was eliminated in third position I was on the button and I had ace-ten offsuite or maybe I was in the small blind cause I thought the person I ahead of me limped in. Anyways, I had about ten big blinds and I shoved all in. The guy that called me had queen-7 offsuite and he made a two pair. I started with the better hand and I lost so I didn't lose because I made a stupid decision. I lost because the opponent that called decided to use his much bigger stack to try to eliminate me. I think the opponent had twenty to thirty big blinds and if I were in his position I would of considered doing the same thing.
When I get eliminated in a situation like this I am happy because I got eliminated because of luck, not because of bad decisions on my part.

[LastTricks]

I just finished playing the 10pm po freeroll (or maybe it should be called a point-roll) and I finished in third.
I am very happy with my results especially since I got into a few bad situations where I had about 10 big blinds or less. I made some stupid calls where I probably should of folded instead. These bad situations came before the money when we were down to the final two or three tables so I ended up just barely making it into the money.
Once I got into the money I played pretty much all in or fold and I quickly moved back up to over ten big blinds.
I was eliminated in third position I was on the button and I had ace-ten offsuite or maybe I was in the small blind cause I thought the person I ahead of me limped in. Anyways, I had about ten big blinds and I shoved all in. The guy that called me had queen-7 offsuite and he made a two pair. I started with the better hand and I lost so I didn't lose because I made a stupid decision. I lost because the opponent that called decided to use his much bigger stack to try to eliminate me. I think the opponent had twenty to thirty big blinds and if I were in his position I would of considered doing the same thing.
When I get eliminated in a situation like this I am happy because I got eliminated because of luck, not because of bad decisions on my part.

Congratulations on your top finishes You told you had 10 BB. I feel you should have waited for a much better hand. What was your M? ANd how agrresive the other player - third player was?

[BMaagz77]

seems to me your doing alright...all you can try to do is get your money in good and hope they don't out draw you..and it does suck when that happens..my goal when I play is to when I get into an all in situation..be the best hand pre flop..you cant control anything after that but if you get it in good you odds go up..although with online poker it does seem like I win more when I get in behind then when I get in ahead..lol...I say I go into all ins with the better hand 85% of the time..the times I don't is usually when im low stacked and really have no other option but to push all in with a face or ace...keep grinding those free rolls until you feel comfortable enough to play for real $$...either way good luck to you

[Joe]

I also played on betonline tonight during the same time as the 10pm po point-roll. I didn't do so well in those two tournaments. betonline has freeroll tournaments going every pretty much every hour starting at about 10 minutes past the hour and you don't have to make a deposit. I had two of those tournaments going on during the po tournament and I just sat out those tourneys while I was playing the po tourney. Once I started actually playing the $50 freeroll tourney I really had not much of a chance and I had to shove or fold. The second freeroll tournament was a satellite to 20k guaranteed tournament and the top 100 advanced. I had a chance because the first hand that I played after blowing off a few blinds I flopped a full house which let me double up. After that I pissed most of it away and quickly got into the shove or fold range again. I think I used up all my luck on the po tourney.

[mikey4141]

yea PO tournaments rock!! Good way to start a bankroll from scratch!

[Joe]

I just finished the 7pm po tournament on carbon and I finished in 19th out of 74. I got busted with ace-five offsuite. I caught a five on the flop but I got beat bad. On the last hand I had a little less than one small blind. I'm pleased with the fact that I made it to 19 out of 74, I finished in the top half of the field. In most tournaments it seems that at some point in the tournament I build up a descent size stack but then as I get closer to the bubble, or soon after I acquire that descent size stack, I seem to lose a lot of chips and then I just barely make the money if I'm lucky.

[Joe]

I just finished the night owl $1.10 tournament on carbon. Its a $50 guarentee tournament with rebuys. When I started the tournament I think there was 30 participants still in the tournament and I actually finished in 25th place so my results weren't that great and right now at 1:51 am there is still time for late registration/re-entry into the tournament.
So my last hand is what you want to know about. Preflop the opponent under the gun minimum raised. I think there was an opponent between us who folded. I had ace king offsuite in middle position and I reraised pretty big, 5 or six big blinds I think. It folded back around to the original raiser who re-raised all in. I reasoned that this opponent would of open much bigger if they had something bigger than me and the caluculater that carbon poker provides for you said that I had the right pot odds to call so that is what I did.
I caught an ace on the flop but then my opponent made his set on the turn or fourth street.
Preflop after my opponent's initial raise I think I should of just called or maybe minimum re-raise.
After my opponent re-raised I had ten big blinds left at that point and I wished I would of just folded at that point because I would of had enough chips to had a chance in the tournament.
So what did I learn today?
Don't re-raise someone in early position and I really don't like ace-king offsuite.

[Joe]

I missed the 10pm po freeroll on carbon or maybe it wasn't scheduled but anyways I didn't play a po tournament today. I played the $1.10 double up sng over at carbon. I finished in the money and this is my favorite sng to play.
I spent most of the tournament in the all-in or fold mode because I made a full dumb plays because I wasn't really giving it all of my attention. When I'm playing online I'm tempted to look at other places on the web and sometimes like today my play suffers.