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ssbn743
Visionary
Silver Level
Now, it’s no secret that I am a tight player; that’s just the style of play that I prefer, and I exploit the image that results fairly often. However, more and more I feel like a total rock. I watch players around me play poorly with bad hands or bluff at meaningless pots with terrible textures; I watch them get busted while I’m still sitting there time and time again; the problem is that I’m still sitting there with $60K when we started 15 levels ago with $40K.
I pick my spots and use the board texture to my advantage; I love to bluff a turned ace (that’s one of my favorites), and win without ever taking too much risk. Rarely do I bluff, and when I do it’s anything but total air, as a consequence, I feel like a rock and probably look like one too. These past few days I haven’t exactly received too many cards either, but not that anything would change with slightly better cards; I’d still fold to an UTG raise when in the CO with QJo.
Friday I played a 6-max event and got busted by losing a 60/40 in 16th of 120th with the bubble at 14th and Saturday I busted in 34th of 124th in a $500 NL Hold ‘em event – but I never had a stack in either tournament and just seemed to delay the inevitable for 9 or 10 hours each day. I got antsy in the 6-max event a few times and raised hands I normally would not, like 45o from the button, I see other players pull that crap all the time and get away with it, but it never works for me. I would think my tight image would offset some of the negative effects of opening light from late positions but it almost never works when I want it to work.
Side Note and a Funny story:
Yesterday in the $500 NL Hold ‘em tournament I had $60K in level 19 with $2.5K/$5K/$500 and was in the small blind. Chip monger with about $300K-$350K in the Hijack raises to $12K and I shove two red eights into him. He calls fairly quickly and says:
“I hope you have A Q”
Then flips over KJo – lol
Guess who won?
I just see some of the craziest play sometimes, one guy flat called an UTG 4-bet for 60% of his stack with 99 to flop quads and beat KK – holy hell!
I don’t know, I’m comfortable with my playing style and it has taken me a long way in poker. Even though it sucks to have 1.5 times the starting stack hours into the event. On the flip side, I am still there and good situations multiply exponentially as the blind levels increase. All it takes is one hand, and that one hand will almost certainly be at least 60/40 for me, but it just feels like I am extending myself too much and setting myself up to be crippled by one relatively common suck out. What am I to do though, start calling in position with the J5o I’m dealt?
I pick my spots and use the board texture to my advantage; I love to bluff a turned ace (that’s one of my favorites), and win without ever taking too much risk. Rarely do I bluff, and when I do it’s anything but total air, as a consequence, I feel like a rock and probably look like one too. These past few days I haven’t exactly received too many cards either, but not that anything would change with slightly better cards; I’d still fold to an UTG raise when in the CO with QJo.
Friday I played a 6-max event and got busted by losing a 60/40 in 16th of 120th with the bubble at 14th and Saturday I busted in 34th of 124th in a $500 NL Hold ‘em event – but I never had a stack in either tournament and just seemed to delay the inevitable for 9 or 10 hours each day. I got antsy in the 6-max event a few times and raised hands I normally would not, like 45o from the button, I see other players pull that crap all the time and get away with it, but it never works for me. I would think my tight image would offset some of the negative effects of opening light from late positions but it almost never works when I want it to work.
Side Note and a Funny story:
Yesterday in the $500 NL Hold ‘em tournament I had $60K in level 19 with $2.5K/$5K/$500 and was in the small blind. Chip monger with about $300K-$350K in the Hijack raises to $12K and I shove two red eights into him. He calls fairly quickly and says:
“I hope you have A Q”
Then flips over KJo – lol
Guess who won?
I just see some of the craziest play sometimes, one guy flat called an UTG 4-bet for 60% of his stack with 99 to flop quads and beat KK – holy hell!
I don’t know, I’m comfortable with my playing style and it has taken me a long way in poker. Even though it sucks to have 1.5 times the starting stack hours into the event. On the flip side, I am still there and good situations multiply exponentially as the blind levels increase. All it takes is one hand, and that one hand will almost certainly be at least 60/40 for me, but it just feels like I am extending myself too much and setting myself up to be crippled by one relatively common suck out. What am I to do though, start calling in position with the J5o I’m dealt?