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peterbirksSaturday nights are duff for ring-game poker. From about 5pm Saturday afternoon through to 11pm, every site is tough.
So I did a scour and came up tiwht four tournies where I could splurge my player points - a 500 point tourney on Paradise (1900 entrants, 10 prices paid up to $2500 for first), - two 40 FPP tournies on Stars (600 and 500 entrants each, six places paid of 4000 FPPS), plus a 275 turbo pointer on UB (50 plavces paid for 600 entrants, no idea how much, but not a lot, about $100 for first).
Playing four tournaments simultaneously at three different sites is quite entertaining, and, since none of it mattered very much, I had little emotional attachment to any of them, although it's nice to think that I have 10 entries' worth to the Paradise tournies. These have a theoretical value of $2.50 apiece, or a potential value of quite a lot if you make the final table. That's as it should be.
Of course, I did bugger all in any of them, with my normal ability for losing 50:50s continuing its run. Well, I lie, since I remain in the hunt in one of the Stars tournies with 56 players left. I'm playing my own comfortable style, which I still think is the only one I can handle in tournaments. It's very different from anything recommended in any of the textbooks, but it's the only style that keeps me in the black -- kind of a "perpetually in the bottom half" for hours on end, before either going out, or luck-boxing my way through three or four double-ups to near the chip lead. I can honestly say that I have never won a tournament from having a big stack early on. But I've won quite a few from short-stacked positions, even eighth out of nine going into the final table.
Hmm, currently 34th out of 54 ... so the game-plan is going well...
So I did a scour and came up tiwht four tournies where I could splurge my player points - a 500 point tourney on Paradise (1900 entrants, 10 prices paid up to $2500 for first), - two 40 FPP tournies on Stars (600 and 500 entrants each, six places paid of 4000 FPPS), plus a 275 turbo pointer on UB (50 plavces paid for 600 entrants, no idea how much, but not a lot, about $100 for first).
Playing four tournaments simultaneously at three different sites is quite entertaining, and, since none of it mattered very much, I had little emotional attachment to any of them, although it's nice to think that I have 10 entries' worth to the Paradise tournies. These have a theoretical value of $2.50 apiece, or a potential value of quite a lot if you make the final table. That's as it should be.
Of course, I did bugger all in any of them, with my normal ability for losing 50:50s continuing its run. Well, I lie, since I remain in the hunt in one of the Stars tournies with 56 players left. I'm playing my own comfortable style, which I still think is the only one I can handle in tournaments. It's very different from anything recommended in any of the textbooks, but it's the only style that keeps me in the black -- kind of a "perpetually in the bottom half" for hours on end, before either going out, or luck-boxing my way through three or four double-ups to near the chip lead. I can honestly say that I have never won a tournament from having a big stack early on. But I've won quite a few from short-stacked positions, even eighth out of nine going into the final table.
Hmm, currently 34th out of 54 ... so the game-plan is going well...
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I feel it
Date: 2006-08-20 04:01 am (UTC)Re: I feel it
Date: 2006-08-20 08:28 am (UTC)I've given up subtlety. I had 9000 in chips (about 3000 below average) and the blinds were 200/400 with a 50 ante. I was one off the button and it was passed round to me. I think that most players would feel that they had enough "in play" to be able to make a raise to 1200 or maybe just a 1000. And perhaps in bigger cash tournaments this would work. But in these Player Point games, especially with a big stack in the big blind, they are likely to call you with anything half-way reasonable, so you might as well go for the double-through.
Still, a fun way to pass a couple of hours on a Saturday evening that didn't leave me with a "what a waste of time" feeling. While the overlay on these tournies is rubbish, if you combine four of them together, the EV is almost worthwhile. In addition, I didn't get bored as I normally do in these tournaments. Let's be honest, playing these things is hardly Ph.D stuff. I can see why SnG players go mad with boredom if they play too many, because nearly all my plays in the three hours (actually, ALL of them, now I come to think of it) were automatic. Four tables in limit gives me a problem, but I reckon that I could handle six of these MTTs.
PJ