February, 2006 Archives

One month of ITH league events

February 26th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 1 Comment

I’m not sure how to characterize the first month of league play.  I guess I’ve done respectably — I’m 7th in overall points, but I haven’t claimed a seat in the big WSOP freeroll, which is clearly a major goal.
My earn rate is well down compared against limit ring play, but I’ve been having a [...]

Back to semi-respectability

February 21st, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I went deep in the Abosolute league freeroll last night. It is the best freeroll to do well in because there are usually 150 or so runners. I experimented with a number of different playing styles that I would normally never use and they worked really well (until they didn’t!)
Early on, I tried [...]

Maybe I should stick to ring games…

February 19th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I’ve been getting pummelled at the ITH leagues lately.  I bounced in 31st in the VIP league today.  I got in pretty good with a pair against AK and Ax, so I had 42% equity pre-flop.  My equity fell somewhat when a King flopped.  Unlike the league last week where Suited won and eased the [...]

Over-aggression killed the shark

February 15th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

In my brief tourney career, I’ve managed to get away from QQ only once when it was an overpair. In that case, I raised and there was a big re-raise that pot commited the player and a push. I knew both of the players to be quite tight and I was pretty sure [...]

In praise of Akismet and more thoughts on my blow-up Sunday

February 13th, 2006 · Posted in geek stuff, poker · 1 Comment

First of all, Akismet is the coolest thing ever. It is a comment spam eating plug-in for WordPress and it is absolutely phenominal. So far, not one spam has made it through to my blog and not one real comment has been flagged as spam. I think it has eaten 97 spam [...]

Another deep run in an ITH event.

February 12th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 1 Comment

The VIP league held on Sundays has the most points up for grabs of any of the events, so it is a particularly valuable one to do well in. I made some really good plays early today and caught some cards, but I think I blew up at the final table to some degree. [...]

Reflections on a week of ITH tourney play

February 10th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 5 Comments

I’ve been spending way too much time playing the new ITH league events. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is an entry to the WSOP main event or an entry to a minor event. I suspect that there are much easier paths to that entry, but I’m not always [...]

ITH VIP tourney

February 6th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I was right that going deep in the VIP event would catapult me up the rankings. Unfortunately, I didn’t do that. Suited, on the other hand, followed my plan to a T. She finished 6th and is not 6th in the overall rankings. She plays a very solid, tight game that [...]

I’m an ITH tourney donkey

February 3rd, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I’ve been thinking so hard about how to handle the very different play that I saw at the WPT that I think I adjusted in unhelpful ways whilst playing the ITH events. Calling 150 chips raises with 87s when you have 10,000 chips is a reasonable approach. Calling 150 chip raises when you [...]

I’ve been slacking on the blog since Borgata.

February 2nd, 2006 · Posted in poker · 1 Comment

Work has become a bit more intense and I’ve been dealing with a lot of little things.  I played in a $500 satellite where I lost with AQ against AK on an Ace-high board, but I didn’t have enough chips to wait for a better spot.  I decided that buying directly into the main event [...]