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Written by SwingSwingSwing
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Friday, 29 June 2007 09:18 |
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Had a busy week so not played that much.
I can across a post on someone's blog (for the life of me I can't remember who!) about going from $1 to $1,000,000 in one day. From what I remember it involved starting out at the lowest possible stakes and moving up whenever you have a buyin for the next highest level. The blogger in question was going to apply this to headsup games rather than general ring games.
I gave this some thought....and thought I try out some HU SnGs. Now I'm not an experienced HU player, in fact I think I've played two, won one and lost one, so I was a bit nervous even though I was starting at a $2 level.
First game - pretty easy in the end. My opponent didn't have much in his toolbox, with the all-in being his favourite move, especially with mid-pairs which he was kind enough to show me. I just chipped up gradually and wore him down. Final hand was in the second level. He pushed with A7 and I called with AJ and it held up. So $4 to me. Woo hoo!
Second game - I saw there was a player sitting at a $5 limit HU SnG table. Now I think I'm a better limit player than NL and so I joined him. Again, fairly easy. My opponent hardly ever raised from the SB, letting me see far too many flops for free. Seeing a free flop with 86 and catching an open ended straight draw is fantastic. I got lucky on the final hand, catching a full house on the river but I think I had the better of him. $10 to me. Woo hoo!
I'd love to say that I continued up the levels winning each one but I didn't. I stopped there for the evening a thought more about the strategy. I started it again last night but stopped after I won the first match as I was feeling a bit queezy.
Maybe at the weekend.
Don't forget this week's Bloggerment tournie. Pokerstars, 9pm. Private Tournie tab. $5. Full details in the image to the left.
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Written by SwingSwingSwing
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Monday, 25 June 2007 12:57 |
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I played several MTTs over the weekend, doing quite well I thought.
On Thursday evening, MrsSwingSwingSwing has went to bed earlier and I was going to watch Alien on FilmFour+1 at 10pm. I fired up PokerStars to see if there was anything interesting and decided to enter a $2.75 MTT. There were around 2000 entrants, par for the course.
Now despite my Aien-watching multitasking, I was playing well. Getting Aces a couple of times certainly helped but I was chipping up nicely. In fact very nicely. By the third hour I was in the top 20 and felt good. My reads were good, I was picking my spots to steal very well, my c-bets were bringing down the pots most of the time and I was good at avoiding trouble. That was until 1.30am when I donked off half my stack against the chip leader at the time. I still haven't went back to analyse it but I played it terribly. From that point I was struggling and bombed out in 50th. Still a respectable deep finish, bringing in $11 or so.
I went deep in another MTT on Saturday, finishing 33rd out of 1612 players in a $1 tournie.
I didn't do well in the Bloggerment though. Again, one bad hand against mikesaban left me short and I went out in 17th. But while I was playing the Bloggerment I was also in a British-Irish $1 MTT. This had 104 entries and I made the final table but busted out 9th. Once again, one stupid hand cost me a good chunk of my stack. I'm going to have go back and review these hands and maybe get some external assessment.
So, all in all, a very good weekend for tournies. I feel that my tournie game has improved in leaps and bounds over the previous few weeks. Just a pity that my cash games, which have all been in 5 Card Draw, has went to ratshit!
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PokerStrategy.org.uk - An Excellent Training Site |
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Written by SwingSwingSwing
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Friday, 20 April 2007 16:09 |
It's been a while since my last post due to a period of illness which lead to a massive reduction in the amount of poker I was playing and my involvment with the PokerGrapher project.
In my abscense, CudjoeBill has taken up the reigns of developing PokerGrapher and seems to be doing a fine job. Hopefully, I'll be able to start contributing again in the very near future.
My illness also gave me time to do an assessment of my poker playing and what my hopes and aims are. My main poker game is limit Hold'em but since UIGEA, and most of the major online poker rooms closing their doors to US players, the number of 'juicy' games has dropped significantly. The games I seeing on the Stars and Crypto were getting very tight indeed which was not fun at all. Meanwhile, the number of no-limit games was ever increasing. So I've decided to make the jump over to No Limit. And I'm starting at the ground level.
What helped in my decision was coming across the PokerStrategy.org.uk website.
Basically, you register with them, open up an account at PartyPoker through them, read some learning material, pass a quiz and they give you $50. Yip, simple as that. You then get a Party bonus of $100 once you played 5000 raked hands. So in total, you can get $150 dollars free. And that's not all.
They have lots of strategy articles, starting at the beginner level and working up. They have a forum for discussing hands and they like. But what I love about the site is the live coaching sessions. The coach plays a few tables at Party and comments about what he is doing as he plays. You listen to the coach using PokerStrategy's TeamSpeak server and you observe the tables that he is playing at. It is the best learning method I've came across. It's fantastic.
Check it out. And don't forget to put SwingSwingSwing in the "Advertised field" when you sign up.
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