The past few weeks have been fantastic when it comes to poker, now let me preface this I didn't win a million dollars or anything; I have been on a good winning streak, and although I am not winning thousands I am happy with playing good poker. Here are some of my latest results:
BPT Grad Party Poker Tourney - 1st out of 24 players
Pokerstars $20 + $2 - 38 out of 647 players
Pokerstars $10 + $1 Sit n' Go's - 1st, 2nd, 3rd (my last 3 results)
Home Game (Friends House) $20 game & $10 game (both 1 - table) - 2nd & 2nd
For the first time since I started playing poker seriously my poker tracker tournament profit sheet is in the green, for the past 2 - years it has been at about $80 in the negative (which isn't bad at all most players lose a lot more), now it's +100 in profit. I really want to score a decent size win before the WSOP, then I will feel better about playing in the $1500 NLHE at the WSOP.
Hand of Note:
I am sitting in the small blind with Ad 5d the blinds are $25/$25, barbs raised to $125 since it was early in the tournament I called the extra $100 figuring I would see if I could make a straight or flush out of the hand, I didn't want to catch an Ace as that would have made the decision more difficult in terms of kicker issues. The flop comes (5 5 8 rainbow), I check barbs bets $250, I smooth call, the next card is a Q she I bet $500 she calls, at this point I am not sure what she has, I am running through the gambit of hands she could have, and I could only figure she had a set or a decent sized pocket pair. I must admit I was a little baffled, but I still felt my set of 5's were good, the river came a 6, I checked she checked and she flipped over Pocket Aces, I show my set of 5's and take the hand down. I wish I would have put her on Aces because I missed an extra bet on the river, I should have bet it anyway, but I still have moments where I play a little timid, plus it was a game among friends at this particular tourney.
End Hand of Note.
My play has improved, and I feel comfortable when I sit down at a poker table, the biggest improvement I would say has been my identification of players at the table whether it's online or a live game. Almost second nature I seem to notice little tidbits of things about other players when they are playing that help me avoid trouble. I will admit I don't always follow my own instincts all the time, but when I do they are right more times than wrong. I just need to work on building stacks in tournaments, I play well with a large stack and I can relax and focus on trying to play well rather than what hand am I going to push with. I hope to have better results in MTT's soon, I just have to continue working hard and reading all these poker atricles and websites.
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I came across your blog and was reading it last week and recall you mentioned that you were the bubble boy quite frequently. I checked it out today and noticed your new post about being in the zone more or less lately and would like to congratulate you. The feeling you get when you go on a tear and start cashing left and right when your making great decisions and the poker gods reward you for it is a feeling of, well almost utter euphoria. At least the feeling was like that for me in the in the early days, today it is a much more subdued feeling. Anyhow keep up the good work at the tables and the keep up the blog. It is a worth while read. Thanks.
By the way man you might want to turn on word verication for your blog. That should cut down on the number of spam comments such as the one above from mandybencon00669036. I hated getting those things on my blog too. Later.
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