I played in one of party poker.com's daily $50 + $5 NL Hold 'em tournaments last night, my first time playing in one of these was about 2 weeks ago. There were 1780 people playing last time, and I placed 47th, this time I like the field much better because there were only 690 players this time. Well last time the problem I had was I could never get ove 6000 in chips, and I was hoping to change that fortune in this tournament. I wanted to play kind of loose early to build up a stack, and I almost sabatoged everything before the tournament really got started. A player raised all in before me and I had AK sitting in my hand, I really think a lot of people over play AK thinking it's going to hit everytime or something. Well I decided to call which mean that if I didn't win the hand I would have only had 70 chips left. He had pocket 5's and I hit my K on the river to eliminate him, after that I buckled down and played disciplened. I made solid plays throughout the tournament, I slow played, bet aggressively, and bluffed one or twice to amass almost 17,000 in chips. Here is a picture below of me playing, the top 70 got paid in this tourney BTW at the time I took this screenshot I was 7 from the money at the time.
.I was really looking forward to cashing big in this tournament, but I made a bonehead mistake I called with a marginal hand 10 9, and a spade flush came on the flop. I didn't have a spade flush but I had an open ended staight draw, and top pair I bet the size of the big blind as a feeler bet and everyone went away exept one person who just called my bet with no raise. The turn came with no help and I bet he called, so I figured he was chasing the same straight I was, so on the river I bet and he re-raised me I decided to call because I had made my straight, but I figured he had the same one. Well he had a flush since the flop and was slow playing me, I lost 70% of my chips in that hand. Then 5 hands later I was out becaue the blinds were 1k - 2k. I ended up finishing in 37th place getting about a $200.00 payout which isn't bad even though I felt I was destined for more. That just proves you have to stay disciplined and pay attention to each hand I was watching Star Wars Episode I at the time which was a big mistake on my part, here is a fee tip while you are playing poker only focus on poker, pay attention to the people in the hand how much they bet, what hands they won/lost with etc...
I am probably going to start playing in those on a weekly basis.
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