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A real poker breakthrough |
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I've had a lot of spare time in the month of December and have spent most of it playing online poker. I can honeslty say, all my hard work of the last few years is finally paying off. Probably other people reach this point a lot quicker, but I assume these are people without a full time job and a 10 year marriage taking up spare time ;) I have finally moved up form playing only $2-$4 tournaments, now playing up to $20 (but mostly still $4, $5 and some $10's).  I'm not rich yet, I didn't win the Sunday Million or anything, but I have won a few thousand dollars in about 2 weeks time. I think I have the perfect strategy for low buyin tournaments right now and my ROI is just through the roof at the moment. I read somewhere that a good ROI is between 5% and 15% with most players being happy with just 5%. My current ROI is 55% on Full Tilt and 73% on Pokerstars. This is over a total of 1500 tournaments, so it's probably not a fluke .. I'm just THAT good :) Of course I probably ran well in important spots, but I have also had my fair share of beats. My strategy in multi table tournaments is such however, that I can usually survive a beat or two along the way. I find so many profitable spots where I win pots without a showdown that I build up my stack enough to take a few beats from shorter stacks. For example, I was playing a $2+rebuys tournament on Friday and during my run to the final table I had my aces cracked by a river suckout for half my stack. Stayed calm and built it back up to chip leader, only to have the same thing happen again at the final table ! I get it in with AA on a Q53 flop, he shows KQ and the river is another Q of course ... Half my stack again. At no point did I tilt or give up though, I just played my best game and still managed to get 3rd place (Last hand I got it all in with QQ against AK and lost to the A on the flop ... quite an expensive coin flip !). I will probably do some strategy posts soon where I discuss several of my important hands in big tournaments. AceHighness
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Last Updated ( Monday, 04 January 2010 )
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