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So I’ve got told off by work – no more gambling in my lunch hour. I’m not totally surprised, although I thought I might get away with it since I’m not gambling against work colleagues, and I work for a computer game company, but apparently there are some rules and I respect that. So no more lunchtime sessions.

That’s going to seriously knock back the number of hands I play in a week. I don’t really like playing after work since I’m fairly frazzled and would rather eat & watch TV. I do wake up quite early, but use that time to read novels before dragging myself to work. It would be a shame to break into that time to play poker. I’m hardly at my best then anyway.

So we’ll see how it pans out. It’ll affect this blog too, as I usually only post after playing, so it might end up being only one or two posts a week, which isn’t great. We’ll see.

So I decided to small stack the $50 from pokerstrategy. Unfortunately before I started I rather stupidly sat as a 25NL table ‘just for a bit’ too see if anything would happen. Happen it did – within an hour I was down $45. Doh!

It was fairly horrendous – the table was incredibly tight. I entered a couple of hands, missed the flop, tried a cbet, was called/raised, and backed out. This cost me $10. I then hit a flop with two pair, bet hard, but the other guy had trips. Down $30. Thought to myself, ‘ok – stop now. You’ve still enough to try SSS’. Then comes along QQ, and I fuck up and lose another $15.

So I left the table with $5. I looked around to see what I could do with that. PartyPoker has NO 6max tables less than 10NL. I really can’t stand FR. So was a bit stumped.

So this morning tried a $3 SNG. Knocked out on the bubble. $2 left ($2.50 actually). Tried a $1 SNG. Again knocked out on the bubble. Last dollar – tried another $1SNG – first place. Back to $5.

So that’s where I’m now. Doubt I’ll be SSS’ing anytime soon. I might try a few more $1 SNG’s, they seemed very easy – if I can get the pokerstrategy BR back up then I can give it a go. Otherwise c’est la vie. I’m not too bothered as I really don’t like PartyPoker at all, and if that $5 disappears so I never have to play there again, then that’s fine by me

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First Ever SNG

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

I had my first ever go at a sit and go tournament today. I’ve tried a bunch of multitable tournaments before, mainly through promotions like the Full Tilt millionaire challenge etc, and never done very well. I’ll admit I did find it exciting on the times when I got through to final table (yes, it did happen occasionally), but I never actually won anything. Typically I’d make one of my dumb moves and that would be it, although maybe that’s the norm for tourneys?

Anyway, the SNG I entered was a $1 game for 50 players, which I didn’t think was a SNG really – I’d assumed that all SNGs were at one table (and clearly there weren’t 50 of us all squashed up at one table). What I didn’t realise was that I’d signed up for a Super Turbo game, and the blinds went up every minute! Fortunately I’d played one hand early and that had gone my way so I didn’t suffer too quickly, but I realised I had to do something quickly to stay in.

Cards just didn’t seem to be coming my way, and by the time the blinds were almost on me they were already bigger than my stack, and I’d be in situation where if I wasn’t dealt something decent in the blinds then that was it.

All of a sudden I was switched tables, and placed at the CO! A whole new orbit to wait for a better hand

Not that it came though, but by the time the blinds did come round I was in 8th place. I was dealt 42o, and went out winning back my stake plus a dollar, so 100% ROI. Clearly I’m a brilliant strategist!

Or just a lucky dog

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