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I have played very little poker this week, perhaps the least amount poker that I have played since I started seriously playing more than two weeks ago (noted exceptions: vacations that did not include electricity). The last Party Poker reload really burned me out and I just don't feel like concentrating very much.
In spite of all of that, I tried playing some on Sunday (it's now Thursday) and I managed to donk away almost all of my winnings (but not the bonus) from my reload. Since then, I have played the occasional sit-n-go at Party to get my Party Bonus Points and a few more SNGs at Full Tilt. These are usually $5+$0.50 affairs (FTP) or $10+$1 (at Party;I refuse to play the $5+1 SNGs at Party... 20% rake is ridiculous).
Last night, I played two of these SNGs, both of the 6 person variety. I won the SNG at Party ($36 minus $11 = $25 profit) and I took 2nd at FTP. The FTP tournament was far more interesting as I was card-dead until we were three-handed. I then started bullying my two opponents (which is kind of hard to do with a short-stack) until we were all about even. We then stayed even for a rather long time (for one of these SNGs, anyway); I was easily the most aggressive person at the table. I was quite proud, in fact, when the poor guy to my right started complaining about how I was "overbetting" all of the time. Considering that all of my bets were about half to three-quarters of the size of the pot, I was not overbetting, just betting often.
Hopefully, I'll get my desire to play cards again sometime soon... if not, oh well... in the meantime, my tournament game is improving slightly.
In spite of all of that, I tried playing some on Sunday (it's now Thursday) and I managed to donk away almost all of my winnings (but not the bonus) from my reload. Since then, I have played the occasional sit-n-go at Party to get my Party Bonus Points and a few more SNGs at Full Tilt. These are usually $5+$0.50 affairs (FTP) or $10+$1 (at Party;I refuse to play the $5+1 SNGs at Party... 20% rake is ridiculous).
Last night, I played two of these SNGs, both of the 6 person variety. I won the SNG at Party ($36 minus $11 = $25 profit) and I took 2nd at FTP. The FTP tournament was far more interesting as I was card-dead until we were three-handed. I then started bullying my two opponents (which is kind of hard to do with a short-stack) until we were all about even. We then stayed even for a rather long time (for one of these SNGs, anyway); I was easily the most aggressive person at the table. I was quite proud, in fact, when the poor guy to my right started complaining about how I was "overbetting" all of the time. Considering that all of my bets were about half to three-quarters of the size of the pot, I was not overbetting, just betting often.
Hopefully, I'll get my desire to play cards again sometime soon... if not, oh well... in the meantime, my tournament game is improving slightly.
posted by frazwood at 10:43 AM
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