What is the best comeback ever you may ask? Let me start by saying I played a great tournament and lost a sick hand to a guy who called for all his chips with AQ ( I had jj), after I lost a few sick hands already. It worked out for the AQ guy when he hit a straight against my set, but calling an all in for all your chips w/ AQ from the BB is horrible, disgusting and terrible. So I was ready to walk away from my computer because I thought he had me covered, when I was dealt another hand- I had 100 chips left! Granted the blinds were 150/300, but I had a glimmer tiny teeny minutia of hope. I won the first hand, 9 10 v. a set when the flushy came on river with my ten of spades. Wheee! Now I have 420 chips, but now I am BB, ugh. So I push with j10 and only have one caller, with QJ, and i hit a straight, weeee again. Up to 980 chips. I push two more times, no callers and build up to 2200. Then I doubled up with AA, and before I knew it, I had 10,500 in chips and we were in the money! It was so excellent. And then...i started getting short staacked and pushed in the blind with A6 hearts, against a late position raiser who called with K 10 and flopped a King. Nothing I can do, I think that I played great. I think I made the right play also because I was ahead with a chance to double through a big stack and have a shot at the final table.
Letting go of fear...
On a similar note, an acquaintance of mine, Jim "KrazyKanuck" Worth wrote a great article for UB about letting go of fear in tournaments and poker in general. That is probably been the most difficult hurdle for me to overcome. Lettiing go of the fear that comes with poker; all of the fears: fear of losing, fear of getting outdrawn, fear of suck outs, fear of going broke, either in a tournament or otherwise. Between Jon's great advice that I have to "just do the math" and Kanuck's advice "to let go of the fear" will make me a much stronger player once I implement that advice. I think I am more the halfway there, though. Everytime I thought I had the best hand in the tournament, I called and/or pushed. In cash games, I have already let go of the fear and the profit has been overwhelming.
Daily Profit/Defecit Report...
I profitted over $550 total yesterday in cash, and I placed 26/274 in the tournament, for a grand total of $220 (with one bounty, I took someone out for $20), but I bought into the tournament, so my net profit for the day was approximately $600. I withdrew $300. Jon and I are going on a cruise in 2 weeks (that Jon won through a satellite on America's Cardroom under my name so I get to play tournament) and we want to accumulate as much money as possible for the trip. There will be a plethora of poker tournaments, cash games and satellites. I am already playing the main event $2,500 buy in, but get this catch- I split my winnings with the website. Still a freeroll pretty much for cash, as well as a free trip.
Tonight, I do not know how much of my second job I will be doing, I have to visit my cousin so I will not be home until after 9 p.m. I will most likely play cash and maybe the rebuy at 10:00 p.m. More updates tomorrow...
Good luck and peace,
Lucky C.
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