http://pokerlogy.com The Daily Life Of A Player Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:47:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a tough one for you. I'm playing this one table SNG and after playing for about 40 min. we're down to 3 players meaning that you're sure of making a profit. The question is how much depending on your position. Anyways here's how it went down. - Level IX (300/600) ... http://pokerlogy.com/2008/08/good-or-bad/ It's been a while since I wrote on my blog... I actually was thinking about giving it up because I haven't been playing so much lately. The reason is because I've been tilting a few weeks ago and didn't feel good about playing. That's an important lesson that separates the disciplined ... http://pokerlogy.com/2008/08/a-few-updates/ When reaching towards the end of your single-table or multi-table tournament it's important to start playing aggressive because with the blinds going up and your stack being proportionally smaller every blind you win will add big to your stack so you don't want to take chances when you raise you ... http://pokerlogy.com/2008/08/classical-showdowns/ Doesn't happen and shouldn't happen too often but when it does, losing a monster such as pocket Kings is always devastating. Why? Well The only hole cards better than yours is pocket Aces. In a single-table or multi-table tournament you will usually win big when all you're chips are in ... http://pokerlogy.com/2008/08/losing-pocket-kings/ As a poker player I figured the best way for you to learn anything is by learning from my mistakes... or other people's mistakes. Well in this case you can see that I'm going to be mentioning a lot of donkeys in this category. Don't worry though I'll try to ... http://pokerlogy.com/2008/08/short-stack-donkey/ For the past 2 days I've been hitting some of the worst wave of cards. I've basically hit every kind of bad beat possible. Honestly no lol I've hit a lot of bad players who kept outdrawing me or when I was one on one with big cards my opponent ... http://pokerlogy.com/2008/08/outplayed-outdrawn-and-outstacked/ So I've played a few SNG tables yesterday and somehow no matter what I played, my opponent was always able to outdraw me. Now getting outdrawn doesn't happen too often if you know how to avoid dangerous situations which I'm pretty sure I'm doing right. The problem is having this bad ... http://pokerlogy.com/2008/08/feeling-tilty/ Well as you can see from the right, I've made 16$ yesterday. It wasn't my best day so far but I would've won more if I wasn't getting bad beat all the time. I played for about an hour or two and lost hands and got outplayed to hands like ... http://pokerlogy.com/2008/08/my-progress/ It's been a while and I still haven't really got the hang of this but here goes. Since I've been too busy to play I didn't put any updates and I felt it sort of sucked so yesterday I decided it's time to post something. Fortunately for me I played once ... http://pokerlogy.com/2008/08/my-sng-tip/ Hi there, Just to let you know I haven't touched my PokerStars since I wrote my first post so you'll be happy to know I haven't increased my bankroll yet. Don't worry though in 2 days I'll be back at it but for now I'm enjoying the sun and the sand ... http://pokerlogy.com/2008/07/away-from-the-cards/