Sunday's night to monday was one of the biggest win i've ever played in my entire life live. Entered to that room with only 400 (blinds are 5/5, there wasn't any kind of maximum limit although we all agreed to not make so much difference between the shortest stack and the biggest in the beginning) and 7 hours later, I left with close to 4k.
I didn't feel particularly more happy than those time where I left winning twice or triple, but there was sure one thing that got me challenged : My jean's pocket being too tight for that money.
Dunno what i'll do with that, I fear that putting it on my bank would leave me nothing but troubles and I'm not sure how i'll explain where I got that money from if there was any question about that.
Maybe I'm still not realizing the money I won is huge, or if I'm just bored. Time will tell though !
Definitely hope that you get the same experience sooner or later, 'cause hey, everyone loves money right ?
Blinds were 300/600, had only 3200 chips, i'm on big blind, last hand before the lunch break.
Everyone fold to the button which raise to 1500, i've seen him play borderline, enough to say it was a real fish but folded a lot of hands after reraise before when we were on the same table before. He raised like a scared monkey, it's was pretty obvious he wanted to steal the blinds.
I find 56s SB fold, i raise allin to 3200 because meh, dunno, maybe because i wanted to leave after that.
Unfortunately he called. Seriously 58o ?
Whatever, the experience was pretty good though, surprisingly i didn't feel under pressure at all and everyone was cool with my handicap (i'm deaf) so they got patient whenever i was not sure if i heard the bet correctly or if they checked through.
After that i went to a cash game. Bought only 150e because i didn't really know how the cash games were being played. Blinds were 2/4e and most of them had bought only like 100 to 200, exception for the regs which were kinda high but i suspect they got it by playing the fishes.
Needless to say, it was extremely profitable. Ended up +150 in 2 hours. I was kinda tired, and my home was 1 hour away so i stopped it here.
Overall pretty good experience so far. Obviously because of the positive session but still, i was feeling really good both in the tournament and the cash game.
I'll probably try it again.
Now time to sleep, cheers and don't forget, don't tilt.
Feels bad to be like -10 bi on a short period of time. Of course there's always worse. But you feel it good when it happens to you and it sucks. I really hope it won't happen to you cauz it hurts. It just hurts.
But on the other hand it feels great when you finally managed to recover most of it back. Right ? Well that's exactly what happened to me on the same specific day.
But the human nature is never satisfied to what he's getting. And that's exactly what i'm feeling right now. I'm still playing the nl5 and i'm overall breakeven. I'm feeling like a super newb when i see that most of LP members are already on the upper limits.
Everyone is saying nl50 and below is super easy, which may not necessarily be wrong, but there are some period where you simply can't win against a fish because he's always getting the good cards and always folding when you have a good hand.
It's threads like exalted that make me glad that i'm not alone and i try to get better and especially better than the others regs in order to not be afraid of them everytime i've to play a pot against them.
But hey, i must say it feels good overall, i'm not trying to bitch, i just wanted to post a little whine and then pass it out
Here's graphs from the last 2 days. Played 16 hours total.
I know, pretty wild right ? I definitely need to play more safely on very marginal situations.
Alright here is the deal:
I've almost never played S&G or MTTs and i went from 120 to 100 playing exclusively satellites with 2$ fees or lower. Is that bad ? I remember that the BR for playing S&G was like 100bi and mtt is 1000 or something. But that was from a personnal point of view from a LP player. I'd like to try it out and see how far i can go because i got a little tired of cash games and almost everything that's poker related around my country is tournaments only. The live cash games are almost non existant except in big cities where i don't live or too far from where i am. There's also an issue with the rake which here in france is way too high from your standard (2 or 3 times higher (!)).
TLDR : Proper way to play tournaments from a cash game player ? Have no books except harrington's and can't watch videos without subtitles (i'm deaf).
