I have come to a decision about my blog here. And it is that I will only write it after having played in ten tournaments or more. The first part is going to cover Mondays tournaments and the second will cover yesterdays tournaments. The reason for this is due to starting a new job and not having as much time to do this and homework for my degree. I don't even know if anyone cares due to no one making comments on it or anything. With that said, on to the type of days I have had lately.
The first two that I did had a ten cent buy in with 360 players. The first one started me off with pocket aces. Not bad I thought, maybe this will be a good day for me. The flop came with two aces and another card. this gave me four aces! Wow, what a hand I thought. Sadly no one was betting and when I bet the pot the other guy folded. That has to be the best hand I have seen this year. Yeah I have seen straights, and flushes but I had never seen four aces show up like that. Sadly, it did not last long and I finished 71 out of 360. Still not a bad placement for playing with 360 players The second one I did was pretty boring. There were no really big hands or anything and I finished 97th out of 360. In the second one I did see four of a kind again but it was possibly the lowest four of a kind ever, four 2s. Wow, what a hand. After those two ending out of the money, I decided to enter a 6 player tournament with only six players for $1.20 buy in. I ended up finishing 5th over all. After finishing this single table sit and go tournament, I took a break and spent some time with my wife. We enjoyed a nice little walk and did a lot of talking about her work and some other things.
After that, I did two more ten cent buy in tournaments that did not go well at all. What a disappointing day. I did a few more on Tuesday that were just as bad. I have thought about not writing about my days playing poker but have decided that the only way I am going to get better is to really think about each tournament and see where I went wrong that caused me to go out of the tournaments. So the first one I did on Tuesday was a $1.11 buy in Fifty50 single table sit and go tournament. I was take out of this one when I had a pair of fours and fives. I didn't even think about the possibilities of a full house that the other player had and tried to push him out. Bad move on my part. He called and I was done with that one. It seems that whenever I think I have the winning hand I end up making the mistake by not thinking about what the other possible hands that other players could have. I think that is my down fall throughout all of these tournaments.
The next one was a twenty-five cent buy in with 90 players in which I finished 33rd in. Mostly due to folding just about every hand until the blinds got too high for me to continue. After that I thought I would try my hand at a 9 player tournament where only the top three get paid anything. It had a $3.40 buy in and is the highest buy in that I have ever done. I ended up finishing fourth which was amazing considering that I did not get any good cards the entire game. I then had to take a break to take care of some things and didn't get back to playing till after 7 pm.
After the break, I entered into two ten cent tournaments with 360 players. I continued to get crappy hands and continued to fold all of them. In the first one I finished 91 out of 360. Not bad I thought considering the bad cards I have been getting. In the second one I finished 128 out of 360 due to not realizing the full house when I had three Aces. This seems to be a common theme of being taken out of a tournament. I never notice the full house when I have three of a kind. That is something I really need to fix if I am going to improve any.
With it getting late, I finished the night with two 25 cent tournaments with only 45 players. On the first one I was taken out by a flush against my full house. Damn, it got me again. This was about the fourth time in thirteen tournaments that this has happened. What is wrong with me? Why don't I see those coming? I wonder if anyone else has a problem like that. Anyway I finished 38 out of 45 in the first one. In the second one I decided that I would not play anything that was not a pocket pair above ten or suited. So what happens? I get two Q's on the flop but I end up losing due to a K kicker that the other guy needed to beat me. I ended this one 14 out of 45.
The good thing that I am noticing is that I am able to finish in the tournaments higher then I have been the beginning of the month. If you look at www.officialpokerrankings
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