Tuesday, January 17th
Sorry for the week-long hiatus in posts...frankly, I just found I didn't have anything interesting to say, for once...didn't want to just dump whatever meager thoughts I had into a blog posting, even though I'm sure that's what this post is going to end up being. Nothing all that momentous to report. Just saddling up for what will be my second last semester of law school...since all of my friends will be graduating, I've decided to do my last semester of school in Australia (assuming I can secure the appropriate authorization). Beats dreary Philadelphia any day of the week. I'm thinking of making it all part of my 6 to 8 month round-the-world extravaganza.
It also appears that I'll be playing in my first $10,000 buy-in tournament in March: the Party Poker Million Cruise, which I'm extraordinarily excited for, and I'll be sure to post day-by-day reports when the time comes. It's a limit tournament, not NL. Which might at first appear to be right up my alley, since I really consider myself more of a limit specialist. But that's primarily for ring games...in tournament format, I find NL to be much more exciting, even though I've never been a particularly strong NL player.
So I guess I don't have anything more exciting to report for now than a progress chart for the new year. It was a little unsettling to have to re-set the "counter" back to zero for 2006, but I guess I"m looking forward to seeing if I can achieve the same success at the 20/40 and 30/60 games that I seem to have found for myself in the last half of 2005. The $2,000 freefall in the middle of this chart was from a hand where I decided that I was good enough to sit at the $2,000NL game with a full stack, and promptly lost it all when my KK improved to Kings full of Aces, only to have my opponent's AK bust me with Aces full of Kings, spiking a 3rd A on the river. Oh well. Back to limit and occasional short-stack NL play for me.
It also appears that I'll be playing in my first $10,000 buy-in tournament in March: the Party Poker Million Cruise, which I'm extraordinarily excited for, and I'll be sure to post day-by-day reports when the time comes. It's a limit tournament, not NL. Which might at first appear to be right up my alley, since I really consider myself more of a limit specialist. But that's primarily for ring games...in tournament format, I find NL to be much more exciting, even though I've never been a particularly strong NL player.
So I guess I don't have anything more exciting to report for now than a progress chart for the new year. It was a little unsettling to have to re-set the "counter" back to zero for 2006, but I guess I"m looking forward to seeing if I can achieve the same success at the 20/40 and 30/60 games that I seem to have found for myself in the last half of 2005. The $2,000 freefall in the middle of this chart was from a hand where I decided that I was good enough to sit at the $2,000NL game with a full stack, and promptly lost it all when my KK improved to Kings full of Aces, only to have my opponent's AK bust me with Aces full of Kings, spiking a 3rd A on the river. Oh well. Back to limit and occasional short-stack NL play for me.
posted by Blog Administrator at 1:20 AM
4 Comments:
Do you think you qualify as a $2,000 NL player? You only sit with a short stack and have shown no desire or willingess to play with a full stack.
Absolutely not.
I've never made any secret of the fact that I have absolutely no idea how to play NL. ("No idea" is probably a little strong, as I'm likely above average, but any skill I have there pales in comparison to my limit abilities.) It's one of my main goals for 2006, though, to really work on my NL game.
Certainly the self-judgement of your NL abilities was not related to the hand mentioned! I think most anyone would want to be sitting where you were on that particular hand.
How did you get into the Party tourney? Did you buy in for 10K or win a satellite? Good luck!
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