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ThinkIllcallUwitha5
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I just played my first paid tournament online with a ticket I'd won in a freeroll as opposed to open entry freeroll tournament. The difference was night and day and it felt like I was playing a different game. This was much more enjoyable and strategical than freerolls. But I was stuck in freeroll mode and acting like a donk, while everyone else was being much more conservative.
Mistakes I made in my free-roll practiced donkthusiasm:
Got excited to make a flush on the river and forgot that full house beats flush :0
Assumed that if someone had a flush from the flop, the would not check.
In my eagerness to play, I lost my stack within about the first 10 hands (and this was a normal tournament, not turbo, I really shouldn't have hurried), was down to 20 chips out of 4000...then two hands later got pocket kings but no chips left to benefit from them.
What did I learn? Patience is a virtue in this game. And freerolls are essentially a different, poker-flavored game the same way video poker is.
Mistakes I made in my free-roll practiced donkthusiasm:
Got excited to make a flush on the river and forgot that full house beats flush :0
Assumed that if someone had a flush from the flop, the would not check.
In my eagerness to play, I lost my stack within about the first 10 hands (and this was a normal tournament, not turbo, I really shouldn't have hurried), was down to 20 chips out of 4000...then two hands later got pocket kings but no chips left to benefit from them.
What did I learn? Patience is a virtue in this game. And freerolls are essentially a different, poker-flavored game the same way video poker is.