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new here and finally won a pokerstars tournament!

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  1. magicpixels magicpixels is offline

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    Aug 10th, 2012 (8/10/2012 4:07am)

    Had to share the good news. I'm pretty much a novice at poker. Love watching it on TV and in person while I'm in vegas and I play in a few cash game tournaments at the local casinos here when I can. I'm not even totally sure what kind of stats make for a good player. I've been playing 1 or 2 tournaments a night and I'd like to think slowly getting better.

    Stats say I'm cashing 12% of the time which would mean I have a positive ROI. I was getting really frustrated lately with a lot of horrible beats. By horrible I mean people constantly out hitting me. Always a head pre-flop or on the flop and then getting screwd on the turn and river. IT all changed tonight.

    Playing a $15 180 player tournament on pokerstars. I somehow managed to win it all.

    I was near the lead for the most part of the entire tournament. The one hand that did it for me. With 20 players left I was dealt KK. The chip leader and a bubble player called my all in shove preflop. They had AQ and AJ respectively. I nailed a set on the flop and ended up taking an commanding chip lead.

    Of course the chip leader with AJ starts swearing its so fixed, etc, etc. I mean yeah I forced him to call with AJ off suit. He wasn't in position, didn't even have the second best hand, so its kind of funny.

    I slowly chipped people off at the final table. I was not getting many dominant preflop hands. My KK was all I had for big pocket pairs the entire tournament. I did bust AA once with a set that gave me the early chip lead.

    All in all a great night and now I'm sitting in another tournament trying to repeat the feat.

    1 win out of 160 entries.

    20 cashes out of 160 entries.

    Really not sure what to think of it, I know the balance in my account is more than I've put in!

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  2. chronkie chronkie is offline

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    Aug 10th, 2012 (8/10/2012 5:44am) in reply to magicpixels

    Congrats man! My only advice would be to not move up in stakes yet and just hang out at the stakes you're at now. Don't want to blow all that new found cash! Keep up the good work and good luck.
  3. BenFaz BenFaz is offline

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    Aug 10th, 2012 (8/10/2012 9:26am) in reply to chronkie

    When im ahead pre flop and on the flop i never lose on the turn or river, your doing it wrong.
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  4. rowley8 rowley8 is offline

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    Aug 10th, 2012 (8/10/2012 11:38am) in reply to BenFaz

    Congrats and keep it up!
  5. cracker9ball cracker9ball is offline

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    Aug 10th, 2012 (8/10/2012 12:22pm) in reply to rowley8

    Keep grinding and try to improve. join P5s training and watch training videos. IMPROVE
     
  6. matze_widi matze_widi is offline

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    Aug 10th, 2012 (8/10/2012 2:41pm) in reply to cracker9ball

     
    Originally Posted by cracker9ball View Post

    Keep grinding and try to improve. join P5s training and watch training videos. IMPROVE

    dont listen to cracker, he wants ppl to win.
    i would not recommend watching videos nor improving your game, improving is highly overrated here on p5
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  7. rhinodash rhinodash is offline

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    Aug 13th, 2012 (8/13/2012 5:31am) in reply to allani12

    Good work, just keep grinding and reading and learning and you will improve and there will be many more wins in your future... Best of luck to you
     
  8. tedSTRETCH tedSTRETCH is offline

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    Aug 13th, 2012 (8/13/2012 8:19am) in reply to matze_widi

     
    Originally Posted by matze_widi View Post

    dont listen to cracker, he wants ppl to win.
    i would not recommend watching videos nor improving your game, improving is highly overrated here on p5

    I would reggy in every 32 180 that runs prolly about 2 a day.... congrats on the win!
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  9. BenFaz BenFaz is offline

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    Aug 13th, 2012 (8/13/2012 12:01pm) in reply to tedSTRETCH

     
    Originally Posted by tedSTRETCH View Post

    I would reggy in every 32 180 that runs prolly about 2 a day.... congrats on the win!

    This seems like good advice
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  10. allani12 allani12 is offline Trolls for fake prop bets

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    Aug 13th, 2012 (8/13/2012 6:57pm) in reply to magicpixels

    Wow good job op ur next step is to move up in stakes and crush.bullara12 approves this message!
     
  11. bighaley21 bighaley21 is offline

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    Aug 13th, 2012 (8/13/2012 7:26pm) in reply to allani12

    Obv brag post about being able to play on stars imo
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    Aug 14th, 2012 (8/14/2012 1:55pm) in reply to bighaley21

    gg, keep it up
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