Rules to play poker with...
Copied all but the last point from another blogger but I love this….
1.) Don't play tired.
2.) Don't play if you don't have the time.
3.) Don't play angry.
4.) Stop playing until you cool down after a brutal beat.
5.) Don't "take shots" because you are having a bad day.
6.) Don't play if you are anxious.
7.) Don't get so focused in that you feel like you "have to make moves," let the damn game come to you.
8.) Don't play unfamiliar games at your typical limit.
9.) Don't play stupid.
10.) Have fun.
Last night I practically broke all 10 rules (well except #8)…… I played one $20 SnG’s on Pokerstars, the $3 Re-buy with $10K guaranteed, and two $20 180 person tourneys. First I was pissed at the wife as we butted heads over some stupid issues (we made up later but…). So I wasn’t in a happy place when I sat down. I couldn’t sleep the night before so I was extremely tired and broke rule #1. I had made a rule to improve my bank roll on stars and to stick to SnG’s where I make money. Until such time as my bank roll could afford large tourney’s again I was going to stay away from them….. well playing in 3 different ones and not cashing didn’t help. When I went extremely card dead on one $20 tourney I broke rule 6 & 7. Arg over all it was not a good night. I spent $75 on all my buy-in’s and re-buy’s and only brought in $36 from my single cash on the SnG.
I will say that I am extremely proud of my ITM finish at the SnG. It was one of the most difficult games I have played in a while with the competition being top notch when we were down to 5 people. The short stacks kept getting lucky and doubling up or staying alive with the most unlikely outs, so it was extremely hard to stay alive.. Example a short stack went all in with K9o and was called by AKs. The board read, 10-J-9-A-Q giving both straights. But through the entire game I kept a steady medium high chip stack. When we finally ended it was $600-300 blinds with $50 antes and we had been playing over an hour. I busted o the button with Js9s. I had just lost a pot on the river so I was the short stack with only $2,650. I raised to $1800 and the button raised me all in. I felt pot committed and called he showed A-10, spiked an ace and I didn’t improve. Ah well I did play it well.
The tourney’s on the other hand….ugly just ugly. First $20, I lost ¾ of my stack when my set bumped into a higher set (we both hit the flop hard). The $3 Re-buy, I played it well until I went a little card dead and made a move with AsQs….really played AQ poorly and lost 80% of my stack. Didn’t improve after that.
The third tourney another $20 I was just card dead. I made moves to stay alive but that will only take you so far. I mean I hit zero flops….zero. Let me give you an example. I am in the BB with AJo. Folds to button who raise to 3x the BB. The SB calls, I raise it to 9x the BB, they both call. Flop comes K-x-x, SB bets out 1/3 of the pot. I re-raised him to 3x his bet. Button folds….SB thinks about it and folds. That was a move….a very nice move but a move. Now you can’t do that all the time because someone will play sheriff and call you down but you can do it every now and then.
Ah well, such is the cards….
1.) Don't play tired.
2.) Don't play if you don't have the time.
3.) Don't play angry.
4.) Stop playing until you cool down after a brutal beat.
5.) Don't "take shots" because you are having a bad day.
6.) Don't play if you are anxious.
7.) Don't get so focused in that you feel like you "have to make moves," let the damn game come to you.
8.) Don't play unfamiliar games at your typical limit.
9.) Don't play stupid.
10.) Have fun.
Last night I practically broke all 10 rules (well except #8)…… I played one $20 SnG’s on Pokerstars, the $3 Re-buy with $10K guaranteed, and two $20 180 person tourneys. First I was pissed at the wife as we butted heads over some stupid issues (we made up later but…). So I wasn’t in a happy place when I sat down. I couldn’t sleep the night before so I was extremely tired and broke rule #1. I had made a rule to improve my bank roll on stars and to stick to SnG’s where I make money. Until such time as my bank roll could afford large tourney’s again I was going to stay away from them….. well playing in 3 different ones and not cashing didn’t help. When I went extremely card dead on one $20 tourney I broke rule 6 & 7. Arg over all it was not a good night. I spent $75 on all my buy-in’s and re-buy’s and only brought in $36 from my single cash on the SnG.
I will say that I am extremely proud of my ITM finish at the SnG. It was one of the most difficult games I have played in a while with the competition being top notch when we were down to 5 people. The short stacks kept getting lucky and doubling up or staying alive with the most unlikely outs, so it was extremely hard to stay alive.. Example a short stack went all in with K9o and was called by AKs. The board read, 10-J-9-A-Q giving both straights. But through the entire game I kept a steady medium high chip stack. When we finally ended it was $600-300 blinds with $50 antes and we had been playing over an hour. I busted o the button with Js9s. I had just lost a pot on the river so I was the short stack with only $2,650. I raised to $1800 and the button raised me all in. I felt pot committed and called he showed A-10, spiked an ace and I didn’t improve. Ah well I did play it well.
The tourney’s on the other hand….ugly just ugly. First $20, I lost ¾ of my stack when my set bumped into a higher set (we both hit the flop hard). The $3 Re-buy, I played it well until I went a little card dead and made a move with AsQs….really played AQ poorly and lost 80% of my stack. Didn’t improve after that.
The third tourney another $20 I was just card dead. I made moves to stay alive but that will only take you so far. I mean I hit zero flops….zero. Let me give you an example. I am in the BB with AJo. Folds to button who raise to 3x the BB. The SB calls, I raise it to 9x the BB, they both call. Flop comes K-x-x, SB bets out 1/3 of the pot. I re-raised him to 3x his bet. Button folds….SB thinks about it and folds. That was a move….a very nice move but a move. Now you can’t do that all the time because someone will play sheriff and call you down but you can do it every now and then.
Ah well, such is the cards….
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