Back to a tourney life....

Well, on again to the life of tourney play on pokerstars. Played four last night, topping off 3rd in my fourth for a $27 take witha $15 buy-in. Played 3 other $6 buy ins as well so donw $8 for the night. Not bad entertainment value for 3 1/2 hours of home time.

Came close to placing in another as well but a bad beat with 2 pr and called by a draw that hit on the river (riverrat!!) but that's "joker stars" or so many will comment.

But played well in the $15 and so it showed. Only 9 person table, turbo of course so every 5 minutes we had blind increases. Pulled off a few bluffs, but the table was tight and I found a completely different crowd with the higher buy in. More my type. No one was calling any serious raise on a draw. No limit play as well.

So overall, things went well and since it's been over a month since playing a tourney, was a nice change of pace. Maybe in another month....

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another $6

Only a few minutes devoted to my online fun this week. Pulled out ahead by another $6 - in about 10 minutes at the 25/50 level. Fun times.

Have a friend now as well, Rico is on. His first sit and go and wham! he gets second. Good stuff. I will aim for a tourney again in the next week or two and I may just go for a big one. I hit once in a 1800 person tourney to come in 60th. Won about $35. So who knows. I finally captured a home game title this week. It's all for fun indeed.

And if one can imagine, I learned how to play elevator, octagonal and 5 card stud. Go figure. Thanks to Rico and Salloum wherever you may be....

Arf!!

The comfort zone

Don't get me wrong, I am by no means a fab player. I like to take chances online (something i should aim to do more in regular play a bit more consistently) and sometimes get bombed out, but lately, it seems I am winning much more than losing on the cash games. I have graduated from super micro tables (2/4c and 5/10c). Now, though, many of the 25c/50c tables I find I am walking away up in $. Definetly on the 10/20c. There I play 2-3 tables a round.
Take yesterday. I only played for 10 minutes on 1 - 9 player table. Went in with $10 and left with $15.
One hand of fun was an out of position for me with no preflop raises so I called 25c with 7/10 off suit. I had just one 2 hands unchallenged so I had some extra quarters. Flop hits -7-7-10-. haha! I bet, most fold but for one. He reraises me. I of course reraise back and so it goes until we hit the limit. Turn card is a 3. Makes for a flush draw (but not for me). I checked. He bets, I flat call.
Last card hits - it's a blank. I check (check trap!) - sure enough, he bets and I reraise. He folds.
Say what? It's a quarter. for this I would see what I had had. But he folded. I don't know what he was on, I can assume a the flush. Maybe he had the 10. But still. for a quarter.....worth the information. Fold for $1, not a 25c piece.
Oh well, he left the table and I took the pot - about $4. Played a few more hands and walked away.
Maybe I'll try my hands at a tourney again, No limit though.
Arf.

Keara welcomes you

Welcome to my online poker story section. From 'bad beats' to four table play to tournaments of mention, I will be recapping my latest goofs and blunders and occasional wins on pokerstars.com. Looking for me? Find playa Keara98.
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