The River Card

I now officially hate the river card.  It has ruined to many good (should have been winning hands) to be forgiven!

$20 Dollar Tournament

OK... played on my $20 tournament on Thursday, hung out for a while and did not play a hand for 45 minutes when I got a Pair of 10's in the hole.  I raised the blind and of course, everyone called (as I expected) because I was the short stack at the table (I refuse to "re-buy" in small tourneys). The flop came 3,6,7 rainbow and I went all in, expecting everyone to fold since they were all playing high cards the previous hands.  One luck chuckle-head called me with a pair of 5's, which I do not blame him, because he had plenty of outs against a pair. An 8 fell on 4th street so we both had draw.  Unfortunately, a 5 fell on the river and I lost.  At least it was to a quality hand and not Jack/Shite off-suit.

Sunday Tournament tomorrow that I qualified for free.  Hopefully, I will have some positive results.

The "Key" worked... kinda

I played in a $20 buy-in tourney to day with 20 other people.  I stay consistent and patient and played strong hands, when I was beat, I was beat by a better hand which you can live with.

I won plenty of hands though, and ended up 4th, unfortunately the money places were 1st, 2nd and 3rd.  I will be trying that tourney again to say the least.

I will give myself some more time over the next few months to create a consistent pattern of placing "in the money".  If not, I will have to settle playing free tourneys on-line as a hobby until I do.

the learning continues!

Ug!

OK...  Huge ice storm led to many hours at the poker table last week.  No winning sessions, lots of loosing sessions, but I have re-learned the lesson of being patient at the table and waiting for the right hand.

Since that hard lesson, I have won three on line qualifiers in a row and will play in an one of the tournements this Sunday on line.  We will see what happens...

Patience is the key!