Costly Mistake
Last night I played in an Inter-Forum Challenge on Pokerstars, representing PuntersLounge. There were 2047 runners, and at the start I didn't hold much hope of doing anything. This changed with 2 hands, my AA vs KK, and a multi-handed all in that I came out on top of.
This massive increase in my stack allowed me to play my normal game, and to lose the odd confrontation against shorter stacks, but all in all I generally stayed top 100 for most of the evening.
Its been a long time since I've done so well in such a large field, so I should be pleased, however a couple of things annoyed me.
One was when a much larger stack arrived at my table, and tried to use his chips as a lever. I got annoyed on more than one occasion when I went into the hand ahead pre-flop, and got outdrawn. I was so happy to have got the better of him that I couldn't help sharing my joy with PL, only to discover that the 'villain' was not only a member, but was reading what I'd written.
I believed he'd only joined that night, and so embarassed myself even further by thanking him for calling my all in QQ vs 99 which set me well on the way to a top 50 finish. Stupid, petty, and anything but 'valiant'.
Part of the problem was that there were a lot of 'bad' players getting lucky, and it was a constant battle against your inner demons, who are asking you, "Why are you putting up with this shit?". I was struggling against tilt almost all evening, and this showed when other tables for other tournies popped up. as I had no patience and went out pretty quickly.
I managed to beat the tilt by getting and winning a couple of good hands, and was sitting top 10 when the bubble came and went.
This is when things started to go wrong for me, or work against me. After the fourth break, and 4 hours of play, I was 11th, but only had about 1/3rd of the chips of the chip leader. I needed to steadily build my stack at this point, but unfortunately the cards dried up, and when I had half decent cards, I was being asked to commit a sizable portion of my stack in calling an all in, which I decided against. So for most of the 5th hour of play I had few opportunites to increase my position. So I was starting to get anxious, and then I got moved, for the firt time. I was placed with the cheap leader and about half of the bigger stacks, and the good cards were all going elsewhere.
So I have about 11 blinds left and get dealt pocket 4's in 3rd position. I hoped to make a steal, and raised 3xBB (36,ooo chips). All folded round to the BB (a player I perceived to be LAG), who called. When he checked, I assumed he had Ace rag, and the flop wasn't scary enough for me to fold, and I was scared of losing the intiative, so I shoved, hoping for the fold. He paused and called. In the split second before I saw his cards I thought, oh well I'm behind, maybe I'll catch a 4... then I saw he had trip 7's and my tourney was over.
Silly really that I beat 2,020 players, put the best score on the board for the forum, yet still fell as though I let everyone down. Ah well, tonights another tourney.
On the STT front at Pokerstars, I have broken the $100 barrier (from $4), and when I break $150 I plan to step up to the next buy in, as $500 will take a long long time.
This massive increase in my stack allowed me to play my normal game, and to lose the odd confrontation against shorter stacks, but all in all I generally stayed top 100 for most of the evening.
Its been a long time since I've done so well in such a large field, so I should be pleased, however a couple of things annoyed me.
One was when a much larger stack arrived at my table, and tried to use his chips as a lever. I got annoyed on more than one occasion when I went into the hand ahead pre-flop, and got outdrawn. I was so happy to have got the better of him that I couldn't help sharing my joy with PL, only to discover that the 'villain' was not only a member, but was reading what I'd written.
I believed he'd only joined that night, and so embarassed myself even further by thanking him for calling my all in QQ vs 99 which set me well on the way to a top 50 finish. Stupid, petty, and anything but 'valiant'.
Part of the problem was that there were a lot of 'bad' players getting lucky, and it was a constant battle against your inner demons, who are asking you, "Why are you putting up with this shit?". I was struggling against tilt almost all evening, and this showed when other tables for other tournies popped up. as I had no patience and went out pretty quickly.
I managed to beat the tilt by getting and winning a couple of good hands, and was sitting top 10 when the bubble came and went.
This is when things started to go wrong for me, or work against me. After the fourth break, and 4 hours of play, I was 11th, but only had about 1/3rd of the chips of the chip leader. I needed to steadily build my stack at this point, but unfortunately the cards dried up, and when I had half decent cards, I was being asked to commit a sizable portion of my stack in calling an all in, which I decided against. So for most of the 5th hour of play I had few opportunites to increase my position. So I was starting to get anxious, and then I got moved, for the firt time. I was placed with the cheap leader and about half of the bigger stacks, and the good cards were all going elsewhere.
So I have about 11 blinds left and get dealt pocket 4's in 3rd position. I hoped to make a steal, and raised 3xBB (36,ooo chips). All folded round to the BB (a player I perceived to be LAG), who called. When he checked, I assumed he had Ace rag, and the flop wasn't scary enough for me to fold, and I was scared of losing the intiative, so I shoved, hoping for the fold. He paused and called. In the split second before I saw his cards I thought, oh well I'm behind, maybe I'll catch a 4... then I saw he had trip 7's and my tourney was over.
Silly really that I beat 2,020 players, put the best score on the board for the forum, yet still fell as though I let everyone down. Ah well, tonights another tourney.
On the STT front at Pokerstars, I have broken the $100 barrier (from $4), and when I break $150 I plan to step up to the next buy in, as $500 will take a long long time.
posted by Mr V. at 10:22 am
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