Joined: Mar '10
Location: Greece
Age: 54 (M)
Posts: 505
I saw a bit of your latest game Jack. Such a pity, very nasty setup JJvsAK with the KKx board. But as you said before if you're card dead for so long there's not much u can do... You need some good hands in these tourneys to move on... GL on any other tourney you play! (The $5,000 FTPA starts in a while... hope it works well for u if u r playing )
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Spain
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 2851
I´m out. Finally got JJ Called a raise 8KK board Check check Went all-in The guy was holding AK
pffffffffffffff! What a wake-up call.
Those JJ at the start F****d me up. Low board, a guy kept calling, A on the river and he went all-in. Lost half my stack in the first 20min.
Then it was all over. Stayed alive with some late position bluffs, but TOTALLY card dead. Sickening...
Another Dream shot to Hell!
I was only going to play late position the first hour, but I HAD to play those Jacks. Stupid. Next time I know what to do. I hope there IS a next time.
Won my ticket in the MM Special a while back, going to try that again, I guess.
------------ Watching $k for a while.... Go buddy!
Edited by IslandJack (09 January 2011 @ 19:55 GMT)
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Spain
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 2851
Been watching some Cardrunner vids the last few days. My tourneys improved thanks to it. 24th out of 340 day before yesterday and 5th out of 240 yesterday.
They play a lot of suited connectors, also 1-gappers down to 54 in almost any position. Works. (dump to early position raises though) They also ALWAYS raise going into a pot, or call a previous raise sometimes. 2.5-3x raise early with all pairs, even very low, except to big raises, of course. The suited semi-connectors are great, they often hit the flop, but make sure they´re suited.
I was going to play that way but I really hit nothing playable at all. Very sad. Everything I dumped missed the flops as well. Guess it happens...
It´s called low-ball agressive Poker, I think. Really fun too, but you need to get some cards at least.
