luck be a lady, tonight
well, poker "season" is almost over. "there's a poker season?", you ask. well, i think many people would tell you that the culmination of a year's play resides at the World Series of Poker, specifically the $10,000 buy-in main event. sure, sure there will be WPT events, Fox's Full Tilt event, more heads-up challenges, etc, but if you were training and trying to peak for one particular time, July 7-15, 2005 might be your aim. it's the Tour de France of poker, for crisssakes.
in that frame, i have tried my hand at winning an entry in the various ways: i played several brick & mortar tournaments, never fairing well enough to play for the $10K prize; i've played a handful of online tournaments, not doing too well either. this past Sunday, i made what might be my last attempt for 2005 and ended up 113th out of 210. three seats were being awarded. nothing more disheartening than getting your money in with the worst of it: AA versus my suited AK. while i did get four-to-the-flush on the flop, harrumph, i did not suckout. why put all my money in on what i had to guess was a race? b/c i had previously seen this player risk her tournament with A
Q - i figured that if she had caught JJ or QQ then she'd be trying to double up again. i know, i know, it would still be a race where i was a slight dog, but look, you have to win some races to do well in tournaments. you can't simply sit and wait for cards. while i could have played for another hour, patiently hoping to catch a few hands and rake in some pots, past experience has shown me that all that does is waste an hour of my time, Mr. Hand. how? well, after patiently waiting for so long, i would have been blinded down fairly low, making doubling and tripling up necessary, and even then, i would have needed to win some races. A
K looked like a huge hand - and it almost was. (re-reading this it sounds like i am trying to convince myself i did the right thing...hindsight and all is a bitch.) 
more after the jump!
posted on Tue, 06.28.05 @ 02:51 PM CST [more..]
