HurricaneMikey
01-30-2004, 09:12 AM
Ok...with everyone's prodding, I finally bit the bullet and made a deposit on PartyPoker.com and got my account going.
A few of us got together the other night, played a few hands, talked a little smack, and discovered that online poker is a bit different than cardroom poker. Not better or worse, just different.
Anyhow, Bazootch introduced me to 'Seven Card Crack', otherwise known as the Single Table Hold'em Tournament. He'd been emailing me whenever he won one, and I was getting worried that he was getting too good and that he'd run over me in March.
Holy moly--what a great concept the single table tournament is.
Buy in for 6 bucks, only the top 3 people get paid. Winner gets $25, runner up gets $15, 3rd place gets $10. Outlast seven people and you make money.
It took me two entries to figure out exactly how to play it, with it's increasing blinds and such, but I think I got the hang of it now.
I won my first tournament on my 3rd entry, which was late Wednesday night.
I had so much fun, I came home from work last night and got into a $10+$1 tournament. And I won it! Ok--two in a row. So I took my $75 in winnings and bought into a $30 tournament. I got knocked out in seventh place, out of the money, when my pocket kings ran into pocket aces.
I licked my wounds and immediately sat at a new $10 table. I won. Ching--another $50. Ok--out of 4 tournaments in a row that I'd entered, I won three of them. graemlins/biggthumpup.gif
I gotta respect the streak, so I immediately entered another one (they usually take less than an hour to get through each one). I was on fire and made it to the final 2 people. I was head to head with some girl who was not very good heads up at all. I had a $6000 lead against her, and I *knew* I had her beat.
Then the unthinkable happened. graemlins/eek5.gif My internet connection died and I got disconnected. While I was swearing at the computer and trying to get reconnected, I was getting blinded off $400 at a time! graemlins/cussing.gif
Two minutes later, when I finally got reconnected, I had less than $1200 worth of chips left, and had to go all in and lost. I was pissed. I still got $30 for second place, but I was not happy about it.
I took a little break, lost about $25 on a 2/4 cash game waiting for the pizza delivery man, then jumped back into another tournament. This time I got knocked out in 4th place, just out of the money, when my full house got beaten by a larger full house :rolleyes:
Not one to be discouraged, it was almost midnight and I jumped into another $10 table and won it an hour later.
That's five out of seven in-the-money finishes for me since late Wednesday night, and $195 in prize money just playing those one-table tournaments. I think I like them better than the regular games (I've noticed most of the people in the tournaments play them exactly the wrong way, and none of them are any good head to head...)
Anyhow... I must thank Bazootch for getting me turned on to those single-table tournaments--they really are a kick in the pants.
So this morning, I turned on the computer while I was getting dressed, just watching a 3/6 cash game, and decided to join. They made me post a $3 blind to get cards, and I was quite disappointed when I looked down to see a Nine/Deuce offsuit. Great--way to throw away three bucks, I thought. But nobody raised and I got to see a flop.
2-6-2. Hello!
People wanted to play, so I just called. A four came on the turn, so then I raised, not wanting somebody to make a straight against my set. Everybody called.
The river brought a nine. Then I was hoping somebody got two pair or a straight made.
I raised and two people called me.
Bam! $60 up in less than 2 minutes.
I slammed the desk like Kramer in 'The Contest' episode-- "I'm out Jerry!!!!"
And with that I went off to work.
Now I'm sitting here watching the clock, counting down the minutes till 5 pm.
Mikey :D
[ January 30, 2004, 10:27 AM: Message edited by: HurricaneMikey ]
A few of us got together the other night, played a few hands, talked a little smack, and discovered that online poker is a bit different than cardroom poker. Not better or worse, just different.
Anyhow, Bazootch introduced me to 'Seven Card Crack', otherwise known as the Single Table Hold'em Tournament. He'd been emailing me whenever he won one, and I was getting worried that he was getting too good and that he'd run over me in March.
Holy moly--what a great concept the single table tournament is.
Buy in for 6 bucks, only the top 3 people get paid. Winner gets $25, runner up gets $15, 3rd place gets $10. Outlast seven people and you make money.
It took me two entries to figure out exactly how to play it, with it's increasing blinds and such, but I think I got the hang of it now.
I won my first tournament on my 3rd entry, which was late Wednesday night.
I had so much fun, I came home from work last night and got into a $10+$1 tournament. And I won it! Ok--two in a row. So I took my $75 in winnings and bought into a $30 tournament. I got knocked out in seventh place, out of the money, when my pocket kings ran into pocket aces.
I licked my wounds and immediately sat at a new $10 table. I won. Ching--another $50. Ok--out of 4 tournaments in a row that I'd entered, I won three of them. graemlins/biggthumpup.gif
I gotta respect the streak, so I immediately entered another one (they usually take less than an hour to get through each one). I was on fire and made it to the final 2 people. I was head to head with some girl who was not very good heads up at all. I had a $6000 lead against her, and I *knew* I had her beat.
Then the unthinkable happened. graemlins/eek5.gif My internet connection died and I got disconnected. While I was swearing at the computer and trying to get reconnected, I was getting blinded off $400 at a time! graemlins/cussing.gif
Two minutes later, when I finally got reconnected, I had less than $1200 worth of chips left, and had to go all in and lost. I was pissed. I still got $30 for second place, but I was not happy about it.
I took a little break, lost about $25 on a 2/4 cash game waiting for the pizza delivery man, then jumped back into another tournament. This time I got knocked out in 4th place, just out of the money, when my full house got beaten by a larger full house :rolleyes:
Not one to be discouraged, it was almost midnight and I jumped into another $10 table and won it an hour later.
That's five out of seven in-the-money finishes for me since late Wednesday night, and $195 in prize money just playing those one-table tournaments. I think I like them better than the regular games (I've noticed most of the people in the tournaments play them exactly the wrong way, and none of them are any good head to head...)
Anyhow... I must thank Bazootch for getting me turned on to those single-table tournaments--they really are a kick in the pants.
So this morning, I turned on the computer while I was getting dressed, just watching a 3/6 cash game, and decided to join. They made me post a $3 blind to get cards, and I was quite disappointed when I looked down to see a Nine/Deuce offsuit. Great--way to throw away three bucks, I thought. But nobody raised and I got to see a flop.
2-6-2. Hello!
People wanted to play, so I just called. A four came on the turn, so then I raised, not wanting somebody to make a straight against my set. Everybody called.
The river brought a nine. Then I was hoping somebody got two pair or a straight made.
I raised and two people called me.
Bam! $60 up in less than 2 minutes.
I slammed the desk like Kramer in 'The Contest' episode-- "I'm out Jerry!!!!"
And with that I went off to work.
Now I'm sitting here watching the clock, counting down the minutes till 5 pm.
Mikey :D
[ January 30, 2004, 10:27 AM: Message edited by: HurricaneMikey ]