Good Hands

This is nature of poker, some time you get great hands and some time you even don't get a face card. A great poker player is who to fold all those hands and not risk all his money. The greater is the one who bluff with some of his hands.

Keep that in mind.

Patience, Patience and Patience

Are the three components of playing poker. No matter how good you are in poker and how much experience you already have, always think of your opponent as a professional maniac, the one who can do anything at anytime with any hand with the great knowledge of poker. In the poker playing, you get good hands and bad hands, as Doyle says in poker after dark intro, poker is not about making good money, poker is about making good decisions. Making good decisions can not made without being patient. Having Aces and not raised preflop for making more moeny, one might force you all in with the pair of 10s while a ten is on the board. Do not loose your patient at atll, fold your best hands, even your raised checks which were raised by your opponent again, and keep in mind that by having patient you can easily get to the point that you want.

Ended up 28th

Today I played three tournoments and I got ending up in the last one 27th. How I did that is the simple strategy. At the beginning of the tournoment there are lots of maniacs and crazy people, try limping in with any hand you have and then try to bluff a lot. It usually works but as you get to the end of the tournoment, people get more conservative and usually playing slow play or a check raise play. I haven't seen any one bluffing at the level of under 100 people remaining in the tournoment. So be careful about bluffing, do not try to bluff a lot unless you know all the guys and know how they play.

Try to make money as much as possible when you are in the lower rakes of play and not in the high limits.

This is the official email I got congratulating me on my performance. (deleted some parts of the poker tournament numbers for my privacy issues)

PokerStars Tournament #1.9593..., No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $0.10
360 players
Total Prize Pool: $36.00
Tournament started 2009/03/21 2:15:30 PT [2009/03/21 5:15:30 ET]


Dear ...,

You finished the tournament in 28th place. A $0.20 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 19.51 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/


Congratulations!

Thank you for participating.

Tournoment

Today I was playing tournoments at pokerstars.net for my first time. I can say I played almost 10 times and the best rank I got was the 47th. I go for the .10 dollar buy in and fast ones. It seems to me people playing tournoment different than cash games or it was the amount I was not familiar with. I used to play 2 / 5 or 10 / 25 and I was good at that. Unlike the cash games the card patterns was different. Like so many times I got two aces but got beaten up by 5s and 6s. Not even once won with two aces.

One other thing that bothers me a lot is the folding. I did go all in and I had the best hand but because of my internet connection I got disconnected and it automatically folded my hand. It only allow you to have 12 seconds to decide, no matter if you got disconnected or not.

Double Aces

So this is my fourth time trying to use my instinct instead of using the probability facts. Every time someone raises big against me I am sure they have two aces, I tried bluffing them, letting them know I have a 10 and there are two tens on the table. Also, tries to call whatever they have when there was a king on the table. None works, the basic strategy would be to call / raise a little if you have the pairs which are not big pairs. If you have got big pairs raise a little bit more or just flat call and try to get as much possible money as possible out of the pot.

Texas Holdem - the free card

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