I was playing the Thursday morning tournament at Artichoke Joe’s a roundup tournament where the object is not to accumulate the most chips, but the most roundup discs, each worth $40 when the tournament ends. It’s a limit tournament and it was getting to the middle rounds, when most people would be considered “short stacked.” [...]
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 [...]
It wasn’t Vegas and the World Series of Poker, but with Monday off from work, I made the long, four day July 4th “weekend” a poker tournament playing marathon, including a “midnight’ tournament. Unfortunately, the Bay Area tournament scene isn’t the greatest for tournament players. First, the daily tournaments that several card clubs run are [...]
Just getting home from a session that turned at the end to utter diaster. Playing $3/$6, I thought I had a handle on what was for some time quite a juicy table. I had a big time calling station two seats to my right and a couple more loose players to her right, while some [...]
The title is what did me in Friday night, a card that killed off the last of my stack and sent me packing for the night, determined not to dig into my bankroll for just a little more. It was a night that had gone mostly uneventfully. Once again, I was tackling th $6/$12 tables, [...]
It was a struggle Friday night at the $6/$12 table: no real variation in my stack. I’d go up a bit, I’d go down some. I’d go up a bit, I’d go down some. I kept thinking that patient, solid play would put me on an upward trend and I could leave with a profit. [...]