Just Poker Talk

Disclaimer: I really need to work on making these shorter, lol. I love my addiction of poker and find it so easy to write about. Please give me some feedback about post length and ideas for making the posts shorter and/or more interesting. Thanks!

Alright, let me start off by saying that it was late, I was tired (really tired… 5 hours of sleep in two days tired), and I was ADDICTED.

I mentioned in my welcome post that I may play more after I wrote the post, even though it was late. Well, I did play more. And I played so pathetically bad because I was tired and just off my game. I sat down out a .25/.50 5 card draw table and took out the maximum $50. I was down to $14 when I cashed out of the table. PATHETIC.

I turned to tourneys… a $10.. busted, a $20… busted.

I had gone from something like $144 at midnight(ish) to about $62 at 1am(ish). Yea, I lost over 80 bucks in an hour. It was scary, I decided to call it quits for the day but didn’t think I would fall asleep even though I was so tired because I was so mad at myself.

While lying down in bed I told myself… “You know what, forget this. Tomorrow is tourney day. I have enough left for two $20 tourneys (not three because of the $2 in tourney fees), and for a $10. So, I decided to throw all my money into tourneys when I played the next day (today). I came to this decision because the idea of table play after my bad luck streak was not doing it for me, and because you only need to play in third to win in a 9 person tourney, with first netting you $90 in a $20 tourney. If I won the first one, I would be back up to well over $100 (what I put into the site the day before), winning the second would put me to barely over $100 (but still… profit! lol), and if I lost the two $20’s I didn’t hold much hope for the $10, as I would still be well below $100 after a first place win in that.

So, I fell asleep nice and fast and slept till the afternoon. Feels so good to be awake awake and not tired awake! First thing I did today was play in a $20 (I am an addict). I started off good, was the chip leader early on, but my stack slowly got ate away. I went from leader to the middle of the pack, and after a mini rollercoaster ride and about an hour of play I was down to about 800 chips out of my starting 1500, and in last place out of 5 people. I fought my way back and it was down to four people. If one more busted out before me I would cash. He was all-inning like crazy and stealing a lot of chips in blinds, but he finally got called and he got beat. Cash for me!

I was still very low on chips, but happy and willing to play more risky now that I would make my buy-in and then some back. The blinds got high, and one of the guys who were playing tight had his stack widdled down until he was forced to all-in, I called and beat him. More Cash for me!

It was down to heads up, and All-inned early before my stack got so short even a double up wouldn’t help much. I won and was now even for the chip leader. About seven hands, and two big pots later, I was the winner. From 800 chips to 16,000, and with $90 in my pocket. I am now at $129.85 and have 68 wonderful FPPs. If I can mange to keep winning, that $50 bonus at 500FPPs will take nowhere near the 6 months they give you to get them.

Phew… avoided going broke so early after buying into Pokerstars, and am still at a profit. Probably play some table games later today after I study for finals (they start in 2 days!) and perhaps try a tourney later in the day/night. (Might not risk as much as $20 now that I am up.)

Wish me luck! (Unless of course I am playing against you. )

P.S. All tourneys I played in and mentioned wanting to play in are No Limit (NL) Hold’em tourneys.

Starting Funds: $100
Current Funds: $129.85
Current FPPs: 68

Poker, Pokerstars, Hold’em, Tourney, FPP, Tournament, Addicted