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Re(10): what do you hate more than a 4 card flush?
when my open-ended pair draws fail to hit.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		j2the3rd
Mar 8th, 2005
Re(1): Winning in any MTT
I think the question could be rephrased a bit to say something like "... get to the final table more than once" I think luck could get anyone to a final table once. I'm sure it played a huge part the first time I made it. But agreeing with, and expanding on what bum said, i've always found my best perfomances include about 2 "big pot" hands where I was the underdog and ended up getting the best of it. I also think that these 2-3 "lucky" hands aren't enough and could be coupled with executing the same amount 2-3 really solid bluffs. Not talking a bout nicking the blinds here and there, but ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		j2the3rd
Mar 2nd, 2005
Re(1): If you think you're being cheated, you probably are. -- OK, am I paranoid?
you should check out Prima... that QJo all-in is strong compared to what you see a lot of the scandies going all in on.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		j2the3rd
Feb 28th, 2005
Re(1): A very strange weekend
I second everything that was said above. About 1/2 through a 75k tourney with about an average chip stack (8k) on the button with TT. UTG (not a particularly strong player) raises 2x BB everyone folds to me. I call. Flop comes TJ7. He immediately goes all in (has me covered by about 1k). I call with my trips. Cards flip, he shows AKo.... needless to say Q on river knocks me out and I immediately get a "sorry". That was the first hand in probably 6 months that had me upset, I ended up trying 2 more tournies Sunday night and played some terrible poker. I shouldn't have been there in the first ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		j2the3rd
Feb 28th, 2005
Avoiding (Minimizing?) Bad Beats...
There was a post earlier this weak about how to avoid Bad Beats. Of course the answer is you really can't. Sometimes you make all the right moves and still get the short end, but I think I've finally come to grips with my own weakness in situations where i'm ahead but end up losing based on some bad play. I'm at the final table of a 7.5k tourney in about 3rd or 4th place with slightly more than 100k in chips. On the BB I find myself with TT. One of the shorter stacks (about 40k) adds about 6k raise (2x) to make it about a 6k call for me. Now normally, I love a decent pocket pair vs. a short ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		j2the3rd
Feb 26th, 2005
Re(4): totally confused, looking for advice
I think anything I posted about, as well as any other advice needs to be experimented with so that it ultimately fits your personality and used appropriately. If you could had a nice stack in front of you and faced with a 1bet, i make that call every time just to see the flop. My greatest hand ever played involved making the same type of call with in middle position and a flop of 22K coming up. After a raise and re-raise the only person involved was the local maniac player. The turn brought another 2 giving me quads to his 2s full of K's. This will come along once in a blue moon, but with ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		j2the3rd
Feb 25th, 2005
Medium Sized MTTs vs. Mega MTTs.
Just some background info... been playing about a year and a half now with some good success in Tournaments (including a trip to the WPT Event at Foxwoods last year!). When I first started playing, I dipped my toes in the larger sites like Stars & Party with absolutely no success. I can easily look back and say that's because I wasn't very good. I've settled down to playing on some of the smaller networks (Golden Palace/Doyles Room/Victor Chandler as one, and Prima Network (Bet365) as the other). I've been reluctant to go back to the larger ones as I feel very comfortable and doing ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		j2the3rd
Feb 25th, 2005
Re(2): Advice on a hand - Yup, feel like a fish
agreed with Sophiea, what compounds the $5 buy-in is the fact that it was a Turbo tournament. With blinds increasing so much, so quickly, that if by the time of the first break you're not sitting on a good stack, a hand like QQ is probably best played all-in or a minimum of 3x/4x BB. Don't let people see a flop cheaply with a hand like that. Most of the time you'll be in a coin-flip, but if everyone folds be happy in picking up the blinds.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		j2the3rd
Feb 25th, 2005
Re(3): totally confused, looking for advice
sophiea... early in a tourney my feeling is that you should really loosen up your starting hands. Especially if you can see a flop for cheap. At any given table, you have to assume there's a good % of people playing the same starting hands as you (AA, KK, QQ, AK, etc). Early in a tourney is the perfect time to play 56s or 78s. On a flop like 55A the person holding AQ is most likely going to feel very confident that they are holding the best hand and will be willing to put a lot of their chips on the line thinking you couldn't possibly be holding an 5. Playing this way I think gives you a ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		j2the3rd
Feb 25th, 2005
Re(1): totally confused, looking for advice
hi there sophiea, you have the fortune (or misfortune) to be my first post on the site after lurking about for a couple weeks. My response would be based on a couple of things, are you talking about tournament play, sit and gos or cash games' NL or Limit' For the sake of my post, i'll go with tournament play (since that's all i really do anymore). If you've had some success playing tourneys and being ultra-tight with your starting hand requirements, try moving to some lower buy in tourneys and experiment a bit with your game... i've gone into some cheap MTTs and really gone crazy ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		j2the3rd
Feb 24th, 2005