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Another day, another (non) dollar
Feb. 20th, 2005 11:54 amAfter five hours Saturday morning to clear my $120 bonus on Paradise, for a net $4 (yes, four) profit in five hours, I was even more determined to knock Paradise on the head. Hell, it was Friday night in the US; a couple of theplayers were seeing something like 70% of flops, and STILL I couldn't win. Since last May I've broken even on Paradise, and that just isn't good enough.
A quick £50 win on Betfair made me wonder why I continued to bash my head against the Paradise brick wall. I know that it was the first site that I played, but there is so much more easy money out there, and if something can go wrong on Paradise at the moment, then it does.
Flushed with that win on Betfiar, I decided to plonk my name down for the $20 + $2 tournament at 6pm. This was despite the fact that it was a "6-pak" (i.e., short-handed from the start), that it was no-limit and that it was, well, that it was a tournament. On the plus side, there was $10,000 added. I reckoned that this would mean about 25% added money (in fact it was nearer 33%) even after allowing for the buy-in fee and that even I must have a positive expected value in that kind of situation.
Well, that was the theory, but it didn't allow for the fact that I played like a twat.
I built up from $1500 to $2700 nicely enough, but then decided at level five ($75-$150) that I could go on a stealing spree. A raiseto $450 under the gun with 65 of spades was called by the small blind (a guy with twice as much cash as me) and the flop came King-nine-three, with the two low cards being spades. Small blind checks and I bet $400. Small blind raises me to $600 and I fold, bringning me back down to $1300 with a bump, and just about to post $225 in blinds.
Basically I just about did everything wrong that I possibly could. I probably shouldn't have rised this hand under the gun, even short-handed. Then I should have checked the flop, and, having dug my grave, my best chance of a pectacular escape was to reraise the raiser all-in and pray for a spade or runner-runner.
What I had done was play the hand as if it was limit cash, and the reason that I did this was because I was functioning on auto-pilot. Memo to self. In no-limit, and in tournaments, never function on auto-pilot.
My exit actually was a little unlucky. Down to $900 and in MP1 I picked up A9 off. A serial limper utg came in for $200 and I had little hesitation in raising all-in. The button (my nemesis a round earlier) called, which was perhaps not what I wanted to see with A9 off. And utg called as well. Board came KxxJx and buttons K9 off beat us both. Oh well, I nearly tripled through and got back to where I was.
A quick £50 win on Betfair made me wonder why I continued to bash my head against the Paradise brick wall. I know that it was the first site that I played, but there is so much more easy money out there, and if something can go wrong on Paradise at the moment, then it does.
Flushed with that win on Betfiar, I decided to plonk my name down for the $20 + $2 tournament at 6pm. This was despite the fact that it was a "6-pak" (i.e., short-handed from the start), that it was no-limit and that it was, well, that it was a tournament. On the plus side, there was $10,000 added. I reckoned that this would mean about 25% added money (in fact it was nearer 33%) even after allowing for the buy-in fee and that even I must have a positive expected value in that kind of situation.
Well, that was the theory, but it didn't allow for the fact that I played like a twat.
I built up from $1500 to $2700 nicely enough, but then decided at level five ($75-$150) that I could go on a stealing spree. A raiseto $450 under the gun with 65 of spades was called by the small blind (a guy with twice as much cash as me) and the flop came King-nine-three, with the two low cards being spades. Small blind checks and I bet $400. Small blind raises me to $600 and I fold, bringning me back down to $1300 with a bump, and just about to post $225 in blinds.
Basically I just about did everything wrong that I possibly could. I probably shouldn't have rised this hand under the gun, even short-handed. Then I should have checked the flop, and, having dug my grave, my best chance of a pectacular escape was to reraise the raiser all-in and pray for a spade or runner-runner.
What I had done was play the hand as if it was limit cash, and the reason that I did this was because I was functioning on auto-pilot. Memo to self. In no-limit, and in tournaments, never function on auto-pilot.
My exit actually was a little unlucky. Down to $900 and in MP1 I picked up A9 off. A serial limper utg came in for $200 and I had little hesitation in raising all-in. The button (my nemesis a round earlier) called, which was perhaps not what I wanted to see with A9 off. And utg called as well. Board came KxxJx and buttons K9 off beat us both. Oh well, I nearly tripled through and got back to where I was.
