Todays update

I will get into how yesturday ran in a minute but 1st I want to give some other updates, 1st thing I want to talk about is sample sizes. I have run into a lot of player in last couple days that get frustrated when they dont win a tourney. It seems players have this idea that they are supposed to go deep in every tourney they play in, this is stupid. In poker its all about sample size, your ROI can not be determined on 50 tourneys, you need to play about 500 or more before you can really judge how your doing. This is the reason when I stake someone I do a series stake of at least 10 games. For instance I staked Dr. Gutshot and he went like 0-6 right away, was I worried? hell no I knew and do know that he is a good consistant player and given the right amount of games he will show profit everytime.

The other thing I want to talk about is another poker forum, TPF or talkingpoker.com was my 1st real poker forum I was a member of. Now im not going to lie when I 1st started playing poker I was a complete donkey and I was for a long time. It wasnt until recently that I tried to improve my game, now yesturday I went to this forum after being gone for months and told the forum I would like to be more of a contributing member. I knew when I made this post I was opening myself up for tons of flaming and their owner/admin allows that kinda shit. Now a lot of the flaming is well deserved because I was complete moron back in my TPF days but things change and so have I, I dont look at poker as just a recreation anymore but a way to make a good amount of money on the side. Whatever happens over there im happy with, I would like to be a contribuing member but if not there are tons of other outlets out there.

OK on to yesturday.

I didnt plan on playing a lot yesturday but I did play my early doubles and 3 $4 180s, I final tabled one of my 180s and went kinda deep in the doubles. Nothing exciting happened in the 180s so I will just skip to the doubles.

Im not positvie if I went deep in A or B so for sake of argument we will say I busted A and went deep in B.

Double A - Nothing much happened in this one, was card dead most of the time and when I finally did get my chips in the middle with JJ someone had KQ and hit. Went out kinda early in 2nd hour in that one.

Double B - This one I actually managed to build to about 3k - 4k before the break then went card dead until I picked up QQ. EP raised and think I either re-raised or shoved not sure. Anyway we got it all in preflop I believe and he showed KK, this sucked obviously but the Q on the river saved me. We got down to about 80 or so people and I raised middle position with KQ and got the Big Blind to call me. Flop was A high and I checked and so did big blind, at this point I had no clue what he had and I was shortstacked so any raise would of commited me. Turn was J giving me gutshot, the big blind bet minimum and I called, I should of just folded here seeing I was so short. River blanked and again he bet minimum and my silly self shoved and he timed down and called with J2. Should of never bluffed here I think it was obvious what I had!


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