So, I’ve done a bit of thinking after reading the comments and losing a couple of bucks at penny poker last night. I’m not too fond of the risk associated with a cash game and don’t think it’s the right approach for me. After all, the whole objective is to become a better tournament player and, although they’re just two different ways of playing poker, the differences are substantive enough. Time for me to turn my back on using cash games to manage my tournament bankroll and focus on tournament play which I imagine will improve simply by having one less thing muddling up my mind. Besides, I want to think of myself more as a poker player than a gambler and cash games do tend to lean more toward the gambling side. So, I’m going to inject thirty-eight bucks into my account to bring it up to $50 and stick with $2.50 tournaments until the end of the year. I should be able to cash out at least once in twenty games. After all, I like the bounty format I hope to recover my buy-ins at least 20% of the time on that front.
Well, that’s enough yakking, I gotta log in and play my freebie!
Well the freebie didn’t pay off and I lost half my stack when I played top pair, ace kicker on the heavy side in my third hand. They bet their kings on the turn which I was foolish enough to call. Aaaand, dopey me, called a substantial bet on the river with a possible flush showing. That’s dopamine for ya! Time to get back on track with 16BB … I have a dream!
Nope. Not this time. I decided not to rebuy as it was too late for me. I didn’t want to be that short-stacked. Another Bounty Hunter’s Mini Big Game starts in 10 min. I have a feeling I will fare better. Hopefully, the craving for a rush will have subsided by then.
Doing much better the second time around. Nothing much to speak of. I could have been the chip leader. I was the button sitting on AH 10H and the low jack shoves on a board 2H 4S 7S. I believed him and folded the nut flush. No idea what he had. Maybe a straight. Maybe a flush draw. Should probably quit peeking at the rabbits: two hearts. I still think it was a good fold. Sitting at 231 of 2,555 L3.
By the way, this is an easy fold too, right?
I was up and down until I busted out with out cashing. I recouped most of my buy-ins with bounties. I wanted to win back last night’s $2 penny poker loss but that was not to be I’m down three bucks over yesterday.
Looks like I can hold off adding to my bankroll for now. No point in adding until I zero out.
Well I’m out of town for a few days. Probably post again on Saturday.
Good luck until then.
Pokerukes