BTW I cashed, top 50, in this mornings TEC Freeroll at UB so I will be playing on Sunday unless something comes up. The last two times something has come up. But I'm getting better. Course the real trick will be to cash Sunday, top 10. Not sure whether they will be playing tighter or looser. Presumably they will be playing better than most of the people I played today.

Played a bunch of mini tourney's Saturday. Won 3 of 6. I could see the people playing tight I could see the people playing loose. Tried my best to take advantage of both and it seemed to work. Not always, I didn't win all the games but enough so that I walked away with more than I came with.

Put my winnings on Ultimate Bet and am in the process of Doubling them and on and on... Unless I don't and end up losing it. But then I figure it's found money so it's not so bad. I also collect bottles from some of my friends. It can be really gross and smelly but I figure that it's important to see what my poker habit is making me do so I don't get to happy with it.

Turns out, though, that if you start with better hands you win more hands and usually more money. Except that people can come to rely on the fact that I'm going to play really good or really bad hands and start to bet accordingly. The real trick to poker is to figure out when your opponents think they have you figured out.

Then switch.

so I played a nice hand the other day. I caught a K hi straight flush on the turn at the same time the guy betting against me caught a queen hi straight flush. I'm thinking he was a bit surprised.

Same tourney I bet pocket Q and got out played when I folded to an Ace on the river with a straight draw showing, probably shouldn't have bet on the turn.

What really annoyed me was going all in with AQ and being called by someone with a K10 and having him hit his K on the river.

What did we learn from this. All in is for the nuts. When you have a big stack it's ok to push people around but ya gotta protect it as well.

This particular tourney payed the same to the top 50 places, a place in another tourney. If I had sat back and just let my cards fold for me I probably would have coasted in.


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playing a lot of very small stakes limit doing pretty well building up a small bankroll and then moving to the next level. Turns out that Poker needs patience not only with the cards but with your bankroll. With 100 big bets you can absorb some mistakes and bad beats to come back and finally come out ahead. With less than 50 you cannot. OK maybe you can if you are really lucky but don't count on it.

I learned that hard and now I'm back to building my small bankroll again.