Anyone in the $200+15?

Penguinfan · #1 05-08-05, 05:02 PM

Or the $100+9 today at Stars? I wanna piece of the action if you are. Sadly I am bust on Stars right now and damn near it everywhere else. I knew I would have to redeposit this year but I am taking some time off to reread a few books before I hit it again. Played 17 months off of an original $500 deposit. Played over my head now and then, played in some tournies I should not have been in, and one you get low on funds you can't play right. Basically learned alot and think maybe I can be profitable next time around. On top of that I am sure I put that much down the rake hole in a year and a half, but thats the price of playing.

Anyway if you are in either game and want to sell me 10% and will take Paypal immediatly I will be on the rail watching.

I'll check back here so PM or post here, prefer you post here.

Only guys that have been here and have a few posts to their name please.

Penguinfan

Talking Poker · #2 05-09-05, 01:25 AM

I was busy all day - didn't play at all. I'll sell you a piece of myself in an upcoming tourney or two (later this week) if you're still interested...

Penguinfan · #3 05-09-05, 03:48 PM

The $200+15 has my interest these days because I don't work on Mondays anymore and can stay up to watch, I am usually on the rail for that game each week. It's surprising how similar the game is to the low limit buy-ins for the first hour or two, I guess because so many people win small buy-in satellites to get a seat. After that you rarely see a flop and almost never a turn card, different game for sure.

omahilo · #4 05-09-05, 03:51 PM

when you reload again Peng you should play on stars and play some of the sats.

Penguinfan · #5 05-09-05, 04:34 PM

If I play in any tournaments again that will be what I do. I think my strategy from now on will be to stick to cash games and mostly Omaha8 at that. Looking back at what happened to the money I deposited I can mostly blame tournaments for busting me. I am starting to think that they sure are fun, but have to be -ev in the long run. Two or three hours of surviving just to squeak into the money and get double your buy-in back just can't be sound strategy and with as many players as these games get anymore it's just a matter of time before run into a bad beat and there are so many chips in play that making the final table is almost impossible without getting lucky several times or getting dealt tremendous cards over and over. The only final tables I made were games with under 500 players and the only game I ever won was 90 players.

My strategy next time (probably next month after vacation in Atlantic City) will be to focus on moving up in cash games instead of trying to make a big score in a tournament all at once.

omahilo · #6 05-09-05, 05:10 PM

what I do is play cash games and with some of the money I make I reward myself with tourneys.

I play tourneys for fun but it would be nice to make that big score 1 time.

Tony Cheval · #7 05-09-05, 05:28 PM

I would be interested in selling most of myself for a tourney entry, since I can't really afford to enter on my own. Not that I expect any serious offers.