Joined: Dec '09
Location: Belgium
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 133
Yesterday I did it again my 4th live tournament with 40 people, and second that i win. The first I played I did bad, had a lot of private problems I couldn't ban from my head, when I wasn't thinking of it chips were coming my way, then lost this again by thinking of it etc. Finally I pushed all in and said to my opponent I wanted to go out and he probably had me beat. Second one I didn't get any cards and went on tilt because off this. The third one was great for me, was bad blind structure, blinds every 15 mins and only 500 of starting chips, but every was desperate so was more of a preflop battle, just before finals lowstack, and on final table too, but learnt to control myself and took em all out, when I finally had a stack it didn't take very long, 5 eu buy-in, won 125 (was with rebuy's but I didn't have too). Then the fourth one was yesterday, didn't get any cards and after 4 hours and a half I was still on 1700, with blind of 300, all the rest was bigstack, but made up my tactic and was going to choose my spots carefully, finally got some cards and reached finals with 4K or something, changed my tactic now and then and won it too. 10 eu buy-in(plus one for the service) and got back 200. This week is probably my best one in poker, last monday I won also 30 euro in a small local cashgame, where I have now on the long run a 64 euro profit(don't attend it for a long time but planning to do it). Hope I can keep this up, as on online poker it seems not always to work out for me
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Spain
Age: 63 (M)
Posts: 2851
Nice! I played live saturday for the first time in months, and didn't do very well. It's completely different, and for me, hard to tell what are the stack sizes and the pot. Would like to play more live. Where do you go? Or are you signed up somewhere?
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Lithuania
Age: 45 (M)
Posts: 2805
nice u great job maded but we all know life play its more better then on poker sites becouse not so many stupid cards comes and u can win more then on internet
Joined: Dec '09
Location: Belgium
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 133
@island: As i'm not 21 and can't enter a casino in my country I have to see the places where they organise a tournament, or some weekly local cashgames, because you can play poker from the age of 18(very strange but ok). In the beginning I had it also more difficult with sizes of stack etc, but played some live cashgames and learned to remember more or less the amounts they've betted, to not give away information by asking how much is in the pot(always calculate pot odds etc).
And I like live indeed more, saturday for example I had a tell on a guy who was only playing premium hands and had position on me, when he grabbed his sunglasses he always played, but seemed I was the only one who noticed it, was much more easy to fold certain hands
