Hi. My name is Eddie and I am a bluff-aholic! I need rehab! For the third time in four tries I donked out of Poker Stars' Nightly 70k by pushing too hard with marginal hands, or cbetting the flop AND the turn, only to get called all the way down. I know this is the wrong way to play a large entry event (1500+ players) yet I'm having difficulty fighting my tendencies.
The irony, of course, is that PLO8 is supposed to be the game with the least amount of bluffing due to the large amount of possibilities. Of course, I bluff like crazy in that game too, because so few people expect it. Tonight was a good night, because I ran many river bluffs and got away with a lot more than I didn't.
Getting back to the Nightly70k, I need to improve, because this is a tournament I like playing in. I haven't been playing a lot of NLHE tourneys, and I want to get back into it because that is where the big scores are. I've re-read Harrington. I'm re-reading Sklansky. I think at this point it is just re-learning the nuances, which I had a good feel for back in 2008 when I won my last tourney, and figuring out when to push, and when to slow down.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
April recap
It's been a nice month. I have been able to continue on the play from March. First the numbers:
UB: +910
PS: +80
Total: +990.
Just shy of a $1000 month. Based on the results of March, I had focused on playing UB and most of the UB results occurred at the beginning of the month.
For the latter part of the month, I was back at PS trying to play in their 70k guaranteed NLHE tourney. It is a $50+5 buy-in tourney and first play pays about 12k. My only rules for playing in it are that I must win my $55 before buying in. So I play some 100PLO8 and some 50PLO8 or some PLO8 SNGs before hand. If I make my $55, I stop the cash games and sign up for the tourney. I find that this is actually helping me stay conservative in the cash games, and improving my results.
I've played in it 3 times so far. Average number of players in about 1500 usually getting the payout slightly above the 70k. The first 2 attempts didn't go so well. Too aggressive in the first hour of the tourney and busted in about 1000th place. They just don't fold, and I wasn't adjusting. The third time was better. I got a lot of value out of my hands and managed to chip up from 3k to 12k. Then I had my AA cracked by AK, and was back down to 5k in chips. I battled back a little, but then I got switched tables with my 5k stack on blinds at 150/300/25, so I was all in or nothing. Went busto in 315 with cash paid at 234.
The prize pool is top heavy, so I need to balance cashing vs getting in the money with enough chips to make a run at first. My play is getting better, but it's clear that my game is not where it used to be. I just need a run like I did when I won the $50+5 tourney on Tower (200 players for $2.2k first place). I got an early chip lead there and was able to control the table all the way out.
I'll keep at it this month. If I don't see improvements, I'll stop. At least it is fun, and it's good to keep me from burning out.
UB: +910
PS: +80
Total: +990.
Just shy of a $1000 month. Based on the results of March, I had focused on playing UB and most of the UB results occurred at the beginning of the month.
For the latter part of the month, I was back at PS trying to play in their 70k guaranteed NLHE tourney. It is a $50+5 buy-in tourney and first play pays about 12k. My only rules for playing in it are that I must win my $55 before buying in. So I play some 100PLO8 and some 50PLO8 or some PLO8 SNGs before hand. If I make my $55, I stop the cash games and sign up for the tourney. I find that this is actually helping me stay conservative in the cash games, and improving my results.
I've played in it 3 times so far. Average number of players in about 1500 usually getting the payout slightly above the 70k. The first 2 attempts didn't go so well. Too aggressive in the first hour of the tourney and busted in about 1000th place. They just don't fold, and I wasn't adjusting. The third time was better. I got a lot of value out of my hands and managed to chip up from 3k to 12k. Then I had my AA cracked by AK, and was back down to 5k in chips. I battled back a little, but then I got switched tables with my 5k stack on blinds at 150/300/25, so I was all in or nothing. Went busto in 315 with cash paid at 234.
The prize pool is top heavy, so I need to balance cashing vs getting in the money with enough chips to make a run at first. My play is getting better, but it's clear that my game is not where it used to be. I just need a run like I did when I won the $50+5 tourney on Tower (200 players for $2.2k first place). I got an early chip lead there and was able to control the table all the way out.
I'll keep at it this month. If I don't see improvements, I'll stop. At least it is fun, and it's good to keep me from burning out.
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