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No Recap Coming

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I’ve decided against doing a recap of the 2nd place finish because it’s already been 3 days. Recaps need to be typed up soon afterwards because the excitement and my memory is gone.

I remember making 3 mistakes throughout the tournament. The first I can’t remember for the life of me. The second mistake was an attemped blind steal when we were down to about 20 players. I had A6o on the button and ran into AK in the big blind. The board double paired and we split the pot otherwise I was gone. Phew! The third mistake was the costly one. We were playing heads up for a good half hour. Back and forth went the chip lead with solid play from both sides. He raised from the small blind and I decided I was going to push with my A2o. I hadn’t come over the top of him in quite some time pre-flop and I acted too quickly. He called with pocket sevens and I didn’t get any help from the board. Game over.

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In Focus

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I just finished browsing through some of my Poker Tracker stats for cash games and tournaments. It was an eye opener to say the least. What I had previously thought were my strengths are actually my weaknesses and vice versa. Once I can go through the data a bit more I’m going to write up a summary complete with a discussion and my plans for taking advantage of my findings.

I also owe a post about the tournaments I played over the weekend, including the largest cash of my poker journey. My tournament play from the weekend is actually what spurred me to check out my stats and data. Part of me is still in shock at what I found, but part of me knew it all along. I guess I’ve been hiding from myself.

It also looks like I will finally be part of a regular home game that a friend is starting up. I definitely need more live play.

Poker Hacks

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As many of the poker bloggers know, Doubleas is writing a book for the O’Reilly Hacks Series which will be titled Poker Hacks. The people contributing to the book make a who’s who list of poker bloggers. Earlier this week Doubleas contacted me to see if I’d like to contribute something from Poker Chip Tricks and I couldn’t say yes quick enough. I can’t teach you any poker lessons or knock your socks off with my writing, but I can teach you a chip trick or two. He announced it on his blog today, so I figured I could spill the beans here now as well.

PCT has been in one magazine (twice so far), a different magazine on the way, and now a poker book.

The Losing Continues

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I’ve run into a series run of losing. 2-5 outters are hitting like Barry Bonds on steroids. Just another example…

Down to 4 in a $10 SNG and I pick up big slick. I put in a raise to 3x the BB. The big blind goes all-in with A9 suited. I flop a K and he’s drawing dead. The only way he can beat me is with running nines…and of course they come. I’m out on the bubble. I was a 98.9% favorite to win that hand. Damn 1.1%…fucker gets me every time!