Trying To Find Lady Luck
I spent a good part of last evening testing the waters between real money tourneys and play money tourneys on Full Tilt Poker as well as getting in a WSOP $1 Million Round 1 tourney on Poker Stars.I played two SnGs for play chips on Full Tilt and finished 30th and 24th of 90 players and had nothing but crap the whole game. There are always a couple of players who start off strong and have over 10,000 chips within the first 10 minutes and trying to stand up to those guys with nothing to play is just down right impossible. They are in some ways worse than the real money freerolls.
Then I moved on and got into the Play chip Tournament $ Freeroll of 2700 players that I won in last week and made it to finish 292 where the hands got a little better (but not much) and I lost my two pair (Aces and Queens) to Aces and Kings.
Last of all I jumped into a Poker Stars WSOP $1 Million Giveaway Round 1 and fared thee not too well when I lost out my two pair (Jacks and Twos) to Queens and Twos finishing up at 807 of 2411. At that point I called it quits and decided that I was not going to find Lady Luck anywhere and maybe another day would offer me a better hunt.
The Card Gremlins may hate me but I will find Lady Luck again Somewhere Over The Rainbow, I know! $Maxiecat$
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May 20th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Hey, you’re making it pretty deep in the freerolls pretty consistently, it seems. Just need to get over that middle hump where you need to double up a couple times and maintain till the last 50 or so.
With the play chips… if I were you, I’d stick to the 9 person sng’s for a while - I find them much more +ev over the long haul. It takes a little longer to build up the bank, but if you can multi table successfully, you can make it to 500k pretty quickly. Just need patience. When I did it, I treated the playchip bankroll like it was a real $ bankroll because, in fact, I was using it to get real $$. I got it up to 3 mil I think, and shaved off 500k any time it wouldn’t drop me below 2 mil. That way I always had about 4 buyins as a cushion. It was easy to win the 100k/9 sngs, so that was a buyin right there (or close to it). While I was building the playchips, I stayed with the 10k games until 1 mil (boy THAT was a grind!) then went for the 100k games. If I fell below 800k, I had to go back to the 10k games again. It seems silly to take playchip games seriously, but wen you can make them into real $$, then take that and build a real $$ bankroll….
Keep up the good work! Make yourself a plan where you won’t touch your $$ until you hit a certain number that makes you comfortable. Stay away from the multitable $$ games until you have a decent bankroll, the time between cashes can be brutal. My .02¢
(oh, and just because we’d been talking about them so much, I played a few playchip games recently - it was fun… a friend of mine equated it with being the big daddy in the pool swatting all the kids around… love that analogy)
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 am
Thanks for all the great information, Jeff. I will give it a go and see where I end up! Getting over the “hump” is extremely difficult for me and where I get kicked out doesn’t pay even though it sometimes seems impressive (even to me) when I hang in there as long as I do!