I'm organizing a live tournament for tonight at work. This is the 7th tournament I am organizing and we're expecting around 35 people to show up. A lot of more would want to come, but unfortunately we currently have room for only 5 tables. We could have more than 7 people per table, but having more people per table would bog the tables down.
I like live tournaments but these work tournaments are a bit more like crap shoots because the number of hands one gets to play is quite low. Rotating dealer and shuffling cards takes a lot of time from playing. Loose play is almost a prerequsite because you can't wait for premium hands. Of course people are mostly there to have fun and loose play fits this goal quite well.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Last 5 HU sessions
Went well. I won 4 out of 5. So my totals are now 12 wins to 9 loses.
I wonder what would be the best format to post the hand histories ?
Should I just upload the histories as files to this site and reference from posts with links or post them fully as separate blog posts here ? Any good suggestions are welcome.
I wonder what would be the best format to post the hand histories ?
Should I just upload the histories as files to this site and reference from posts with links or post them fully as separate blog posts here ? Any good suggestions are welcome.
My Poker History & HU
I've been playing Poker for a year and half now, spending quite a lot of my free time with it. I first played small stake (2-10$) 1-5 table NL SNGs @ PokerStars with some success, but then switched to FullTilt.
I've built my roll playing limit holdem (3/6) and lost most of it in short-handed NL games :). I've been using PokerTracker to track my play and I my results say that I am definately not very good at shorthanded NL play.
A couple of weeks ago I talked with a friend of mine who has been playing NL a lot and suggested that I try HU NL SNGs to improve my game reading skills in NL one to ones. I've been quite interested in NL games (even though I've lost a bunch :) so I was intrigued.
So, last weekend I started playing HU NL SNGs to hone my skills in one-to-one battles.
I experimented first with Poker Academy, against the 'better' computer opponents, but found out quite quickly their patterns and how to beat them. (I won 16/20 of the matches I played). So it seems that as HU the computer oppontents are really bad.
Then I switched to NL HU SNGs on FullTilt where I've played 17 HU's from which I have won 8. I've found HU to be quite enjoyable even though I have played not too many matches, so I'll think I'll stick to it for a while. Also I started this blog to maybe share my experiences about HU (as there was some talk at 2+2 about starting a 'peer review' blogroll about HU poker) and maybe poker in general.
I've built my roll playing limit holdem (3/6) and lost most of it in short-handed NL games :). I've been using PokerTracker to track my play and I my results say that I am definately not very good at shorthanded NL play.
A couple of weeks ago I talked with a friend of mine who has been playing NL a lot and suggested that I try HU NL SNGs to improve my game reading skills in NL one to ones. I've been quite interested in NL games (even though I've lost a bunch :) so I was intrigued.
So, last weekend I started playing HU NL SNGs to hone my skills in one-to-one battles.
I experimented first with Poker Academy, against the 'better' computer opponents, but found out quite quickly their patterns and how to beat them. (I won 16/20 of the matches I played). So it seems that as HU the computer oppontents are really bad.
Then I switched to NL HU SNGs on FullTilt where I've played 17 HU's from which I have won 8. I've found HU to be quite enjoyable even though I have played not too many matches, so I'll think I'll stick to it for a while. Also I started this blog to maybe share my experiences about HU (as there was some talk at 2+2 about starting a 'peer review' blogroll about HU poker) and maybe poker in general.
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