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Archive for February, 2010

Luck leads to tournament success

Posted by Chuck on February 26th, 2010

Today’s roundup tournament was interesting, and not just because I finished in the money, with 5 roundup discs. No, it’s interesting because of three hands in which I got very, very lucky. I also made one bad decisions that cost me a better finish. I began the tournament completely card dead. The only hand I [...]

Hit & Run

Posted by Chuck on February 23rd, 2010

Poker players sometimes use the term “Hit & run” derisively to describe a player who comes in, hits big, and leaves. Such an event is more likely in no-limit, where it’s not hard to get all the money in quickly, but less common in limit, where betting is, well, limited. Yet it happened to me [...]

The poker gods giveth, the poker gods taketh away

Posted by Chuck on February 2nd, 2010

Was playing in the weekly Monday morning tournament at Artichoke Joe’s. It’s a limit tournament, with the typical 15-minute rounds and non-deep stacks intended to get the tournament over in about 2 1/2 hours, starting with 5 tables of 11. Got short stacked early, came back, got down to the final 2 tables (top 9 [...]