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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
Victory Is Mine
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 by Phil
It’s always nice to win a tournament with a few hundred entrants. I always think about quitting tournament poker for good and I usually only play in tournaments for fun these days. One of the reasons I hate tournaments is because your day almost always gets ruined by someone. No matter what place you get knocked out in, it’s always going to hurt.
I was just messing around at the low stakes yesterday, which sort of sucks in retrospect, but I’m just in these tournaments to throw some chips around and try to suck-out on people.
I usually expect it to hurt when I am knocked out, so I don’t get too involved with these tournaments. I just wrote an entry a few days ago about my little steaming problem that I called “Steaming Bat Out of Hell”, so that pretty much says it all.
There was 352 players in this Stud8 tournament yesterday and I had the chip lead by the time it got down to about 75 players. By the time it was down to around 40 players I had stretched this to a 2 to 1 chip lead over second place, and I was just basically crushing the rest of the field.
It’s actually sort of hard to get a lot of final table experience in Stud8 events. The way this final table played out, it was extremely easy to run over people which surprised me a little bit. They really didn’t seem to grasp the concepts that you need to understand to do well in Stud8, although the limits were pretty high at this point in the tournament which didn’t help them. I basically took at least half of every pot that was played at the final table.
The guy that was heads up against me admitted he had never played a stud8 tournament before, and it really showed because he made a few really bad decisions. He caught 2 huge 7th street cards on consecutive hands to get him back in the match, so he gave me a little bit of a tough time after that. He actually had me down to about a 4 to 1 chip disadvantage after some nasty suckouts.
At that point I still liked my chances over my opponent just because I had seen how he got those chips from me and he had played pretty poorly. A few hands later it was all over and I was…uhhhh…. a few dollars richer. I prefer to brag about winning a 350 person tournament rather than the cash, we’re talking about some of the lower stakes here, so a few of my readers probably made more money at their real job in the time it took me to win this tournament. But whatever, a win is a win, so chalk it up.
If I can get some more time I’ll try and break down some of these final hands a little bit.
