MiniFTOPS Main Event, 100nl 6max and Ending the Year Right

Posted by icemonkey9 on Dec 21, 2009 in 100nl | 2 comments

I ended up playing in a  bunch of tournaments yesterday, which means for me five.  That is seriously a month's worth of tournament play for me wrapped up into one giant ball of a day.  I don't even remember all the ones I played in and the only one you are going to care about is the MiniFTOPS Main Event.  I bought in for Full Tilt Points so it was a bit of a freeroll, but as a reader did mention in my previous post some of the buy-in will be deducted from my rakeback.  Just lovely.

I cashed in one of the five tournaments I played in, a "lol" $11 SNG.  That covered the buy-in for that one plus one of the $5 buy-ins I entered.  I know, big spender.  Anyways thoughts of the MiniFTOPS Main Event:

• It was a lot of fun playing in a "main event" tournament and being so deep
• Had a real good run early and was up to 35,000 in chips after the third break
• Went card dead for a while before losing a few pots
• Busted in 2,400ish place out of 15,000
• $0

Anyways, just reinforces the fact that tournaments are just a collosal waste of time for a cash game player.  Did I have fun? Absolutely.  Do I regret buying in? No way.

As a few loyal readers will know I started getting coaching from a friend who is now an instructor at Stox by the name of "Clean" who is really getting me to think properly about poker and 6max play.  I don't want to harp on the results because that's not what he has me focusing on - just the fundamentals of solid play and theory.  I definitely feel more focused and feel more confident in what I am trying to accomplish during a given hand during a session.

So, that basically has meant that 100n 6max has gone real well for the most part.  For the results people (typically me haha) I've just been killing the regs and running into the fish who have "one pip better" hands at the river.  It would be real frustrating if I let it tilt me but so far I've just gone back and analyzed my play and looked for mistakes.

The goal for me as a poker player is to really be comfortable over a good stretch of hands (30-50k) at 100nl and make sure I really know what I'm doing.  At that point I'll finally take a stab at 200nl games when they are juicy and just focus on playing the same game I've been playing and not overcompensate.

In terms of my poker writing things are going really well.  I'm really enjoying the articles I am writing for Poker Table Ratings and for the most part they have been really well received by the site's fickle crowd.  I have some really great things coming up for Poker Software and Mac Poker which are great sites if you haven't already bookmarked them.

It's Christmas on Friday, so for you Christians that practice your belief, have a very Merry Christmas!  My apologies for not wishing those of the Jewish faith a Happy Hanukkah previously, but accept it here.

Take care, and goooooo San Diego SUPER Chargers!!!