Fear

Whether it's cash games or tournaments... once you're out of money, or out of chips... that's the end.

I think the fear of that happening is hindering me. As far as it prevents me from playing weak hands, it's not such a bad thing. However, it also restricts my betting, and that gets in the way of winning, which is bad.

I've done fairly well playing lots of speculative hands, at some points... it's rather risky, though, especially if you misread other peoples' hands. So nowadays, I play very conservatively, just the top fifty or so hands, with rather careful betting most of the time.

I've been on the receiving end of aggressive betting, myself - something like 5x - 6x blinds on a pre-flop betis enough to put people off even potential winning hands, myself included. I probably should't be that afraid of those bets.

In any case, my bankroll has hit a flat zero, again. :(

Ups And Downs

I act... rashly, with my bankroll. So, I hereby promise to only play the 1/2 cent blinds cash games, outside the freeroll tournaments, until I have more than $10 on my bankroll.

...which will take a while. Which is a problem, as I'm in serious need of cash, as in I only got to eat today because my brother is visiting and he bought me dinner.

So, yeah, my bankroll went down to $0.45. Oops.

Maybe I'll play better today, now that I'm not so hungry anymore.

$5 Click Card

Free money, yay!

I'm playing 2 cent blinds NL cash game, and a $1 rebuy speed tournament, I should see which one is more profitable for me at this point, if I keep playing the cash game simultaneously with the tournament.

*edit*

Got eliminated around 80th spot in the tournament, so winning about $2.20 on cash game, is clearly the winner.
A shame, as the profit margin is much better at winning tournaments. *sigh*

WPT Vienna

Digged up the passwords for the $1000 live stream ( - which is an interesting watch - ) and the $500 Twitter game. At least placing would give me access to cash games, again. Hm.

Placed 160th on the WPT Barcelona Freeroll game. My late game is still weak.

Update: Only managed to get about 1100th place in the live stream game - I had a long streak of no good hands, so I went all in with AJ offsuit, and... so, yeah.

I also do very badly on $50 and $250 freeroll games, for some reason. Hm.

Update 2: So... Um... I was kinda asleep past the start of Vienna Twitter game. The game had gone on for nearly fifty minutes when I got up, at which point the blinds had pretty much eaten up my stack.  So... yeah.

Oops.

WPT Vienna

Digged up the passwords for the $1000 live stream ( - which is an interesting watch - ) and the $500 Twitter game. At least placing would give me access to cash games, again. Hm.

Placed 160th on the WPT Barcelona Freeroll game. My late game is still weak.

So how am I doing?

Well, it's been... nearly three weeks since I started playing.
I managed $0.04 worth in a $50 limit holdem, and so forth. I'm not just sure...

*sigh*

I'm hungry.

It's easy to reach the top, oh, 10% of any tournament by only playing the premium hands, and even then conservatively, but that means one'll probably be short-stacked when there's only that 10% left, unless you run into a lucky streak when the blinds start getting big.

I don't do quite as many bone-headed mistakes any more, so that's good, at least. Now, if only I had food....

A Tournament-mistake would be to bet large sums - say, more than half of your remaining chips - in an early spot - while there are still thousands of players remaining - when there's a distinct possibility of the other player having a better hand.

Or how I just lost 95% of my chips with a JK vs. a KK hand. I should have read it from the bets, but frankly, the player had a tendency to bet big with all sorts of hands, so....

Losing with Aces

During the last day, I've had two aces come up five times in my games. Once, I doubled up. Once, I just won the blinds. Three times, I lost completely, with opponents lucking into flushes or draws by the time River arrives.

Just now, my Aces went up against a pair of sevens, all pre-flop, and the other guy is all-in. So, what cards hit the table? Why, three, four, five and six, of course.

I'm feeling just a tad unlucky.