A Good Week!
I said I was going to write up my CAP Euro trip but I don`t feel like doing it right now so instead I`m going to comment on my week so far. As the title says it`s been pretty good as far as poker is concerned at least. The funny thing is I was not feeling too good about my game. I`ve made plenty of final tables but been failing to cash and it seemed as if my bets were getting no respect at the table. So I decided to change a few things round. Mainly to do with my betting rather than hand selection.
I know the week starts Sunday but for the purposes of this piece it started last Friday. A whole bunch of Poker.com regulars converged on Liverpool for a live tourney, I should have been there too but my finances didn`t allow it so we had a little "The ones who didn`t go" SNG which I miraculousy won. I say miraculously because I`ve always seemed to have a bit of a block where SNGs are concerned. I`d cash occasionally but rarely win them. So fast forward to Monday night. At K9 we`ve started Skypecasting tourneys and a couple of regulars BigMoody1 and MoreMoody do their own show on a Monday night. Normally everyone just listens in or joins in the chat but recently we arranged a private SNG table at Vegas Poker 24/7 so whilst we listened to Moody Mondays we played a couple of SNGs. I had pretty amazing cards in the first one, developed a big chip advantage and pretty mercilessly cleaned up the table. No doubt I had great cards but I played my big stack very well and barely put a foot wrong. Then we played the second game and what do you know, I won that as well! Now the K9 crowd are a tough bunch so to win back to back games at a discipline I didn`t regard myself as excelling at was pretty special to me.
So, onto Wednesday Night, the K9 Poker Tour 7 card stud game. Now 7 card stud really isn`t my game at all. I quite enjoy playing it but I have very little clue when it comes to strategy. Call it luck, call it good judgement but I won! Now it was only a small tourney with nine runners but I eliminated either seven or eight players and it was epecially satisfying because the heads-up was cat vs mouse lol. For those not in the know MurryTheCat is one of the K9 regulars. He also happens to be a very good NLHE player and one of the few K9ers with any experience at 7 card stud. The win got me my fourth star on the leaderboard and one more win gets me the coveted shark accolade.
Thursday night and I`m playing at Third Bullet in a qualifier to win a ticket to a tourney where 1st place gets a trip to the Playboy mansion and 2nd place wins a seat in the Ultimate Poker Challenge televised game at the world famous Binnions Horseshoe. I`d already qualified in previous days but I`ve been playing to make sure they get enough players to get the games started. Well we reached the stage where everyone had qualified and now it was all about the pride of winning and the massive $1 prize! No that`s not a misprint, the winner gets a buck lol. Well I had a little luck but damned if I didn`t win it outright.
Friday morning, I`ve pulled an all-niter and although all I want to do is sleep I have to go out at lunchtime.I sat and caught up with Poker After Dark and then thought I might play a ring game for a while. I couldn`t find anything that appealed though so I signed up for a SNG on Vegas 24/7. I made a horrible error early on and lost a third of my stack but after I`d called myself stupid a few times and told myself why I`d lost I got on with playing. I doubled up with a slowplayed set of sevens, increased my stack still more with pocket queens and found myself 2nd in chips at a very passive table. My tight play hadn`t gone unnoticed and I suddenly realised that the majority of the table was just plain scared of tangling with me. My confidence was high and I felt like a shark in a fish pond. With four players left I had a decent chip advantage and I was murdering them. I got it to heads-up and was feeling very confident, perhaps too confident upon reflection as I ended up losing a hard fought HU match. I can put it down to one key hand where I allowed my opponent back in calling his all-in with K-10 only to find him with KK. I went a little card dead after that although I never felt he took control of the game. I was annoyed to lose but pleased with my game overall.
So that`s it so far for this week 3 x 1st and a 2nd place in four SNGs. Two small MTT wins and the prospect of a weekend of poker feeling great about my game and looking to catch up with Shaggy in the Money Tour and take down the coveted monthly title that I`ve yet to claim.
I love this game! . . . At least I do this week lol.
On a serious note I`m not sure if it`s to do with how I`ve adjusted my game, wether it`s a lot about confidence and attitude or I`m just running hot. Time will tell I suppose but as long as it lasts I intend to enjoy it.
I know the week starts Sunday but for the purposes of this piece it started last Friday. A whole bunch of Poker.com regulars converged on Liverpool for a live tourney, I should have been there too but my finances didn`t allow it so we had a little "The ones who didn`t go" SNG which I miraculousy won. I say miraculously because I`ve always seemed to have a bit of a block where SNGs are concerned. I`d cash occasionally but rarely win them. So fast forward to Monday night. At K9 we`ve started Skypecasting tourneys and a couple of regulars BigMoody1 and MoreMoody do their own show on a Monday night. Normally everyone just listens in or joins in the chat but recently we arranged a private SNG table at Vegas Poker 24/7 so whilst we listened to Moody Mondays we played a couple of SNGs. I had pretty amazing cards in the first one, developed a big chip advantage and pretty mercilessly cleaned up the table. No doubt I had great cards but I played my big stack very well and barely put a foot wrong. Then we played the second game and what do you know, I won that as well! Now the K9 crowd are a tough bunch so to win back to back games at a discipline I didn`t regard myself as excelling at was pretty special to me.
So, onto Wednesday Night, the K9 Poker Tour 7 card stud game. Now 7 card stud really isn`t my game at all. I quite enjoy playing it but I have very little clue when it comes to strategy. Call it luck, call it good judgement but I won! Now it was only a small tourney with nine runners but I eliminated either seven or eight players and it was epecially satisfying because the heads-up was cat vs mouse lol. For those not in the know MurryTheCat is one of the K9 regulars. He also happens to be a very good NLHE player and one of the few K9ers with any experience at 7 card stud. The win got me my fourth star on the leaderboard and one more win gets me the coveted shark accolade.
Thursday night and I`m playing at Third Bullet in a qualifier to win a ticket to a tourney where 1st place gets a trip to the Playboy mansion and 2nd place wins a seat in the Ultimate Poker Challenge televised game at the world famous Binnions Horseshoe. I`d already qualified in previous days but I`ve been playing to make sure they get enough players to get the games started. Well we reached the stage where everyone had qualified and now it was all about the pride of winning and the massive $1 prize! No that`s not a misprint, the winner gets a buck lol. Well I had a little luck but damned if I didn`t win it outright.
Friday morning, I`ve pulled an all-niter and although all I want to do is sleep I have to go out at lunchtime.I sat and caught up with Poker After Dark and then thought I might play a ring game for a while. I couldn`t find anything that appealed though so I signed up for a SNG on Vegas 24/7. I made a horrible error early on and lost a third of my stack but after I`d called myself stupid a few times and told myself why I`d lost I got on with playing. I doubled up with a slowplayed set of sevens, increased my stack still more with pocket queens and found myself 2nd in chips at a very passive table. My tight play hadn`t gone unnoticed and I suddenly realised that the majority of the table was just plain scared of tangling with me. My confidence was high and I felt like a shark in a fish pond. With four players left I had a decent chip advantage and I was murdering them. I got it to heads-up and was feeling very confident, perhaps too confident upon reflection as I ended up losing a hard fought HU match. I can put it down to one key hand where I allowed my opponent back in calling his all-in with K-10 only to find him with KK. I went a little card dead after that although I never felt he took control of the game. I was annoyed to lose but pleased with my game overall.
So that`s it so far for this week 3 x 1st and a 2nd place in four SNGs. Two small MTT wins and the prospect of a weekend of poker feeling great about my game and looking to catch up with Shaggy in the Money Tour and take down the coveted monthly title that I`ve yet to claim.
I love this game! . . . At least I do this week lol.
On a serious note I`m not sure if it`s to do with how I`ve adjusted my game, wether it`s a lot about confidence and attitude or I`m just running hot. Time will tell I suppose but as long as it lasts I intend to enjoy it.
posted by DangerMouse at 4:07 PM
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