Bulldog
04-05-2005, 09:40 AM
I mostly play limit cash games, but I mix in the occasional NL tourney on Stars, usually the $5.50 rebuy. I've had several money finishes (5 of 14 in this tourney) but no big hits. A couple of them I was short stacked and snuck into the money, but last night I thought I was on my way to a real nice payday.
I was the first to 100,000 for my only lead of the night when we were down to about 130 players (~650 entrants, 63 places pay). I got there with a tough call in a hand where I was the BB with A9 and called a raise from the SB. Flop was Q93, he made a small bet, I made a mini raise, he pushed, and I called his T4o. We were the two big stacks at the table at around 50,000 each and I was quite proud of my call.
Things were mostly quiet the next hour or so, and I stayed between 4th and 7th place for a long time. I was 5th with 29 players left, with 220,000. I lost 20,000 on the first hand I flipped over where I was behind (AQ v AK short stacked), then inched back up to about 210,000. The blinds were now 6000/12000 I believe. I raised to 36,000 UTG with AKo. UTG+1 goes all in for 80,000 more and all fold to me. I call and he shows AQ. Q on the turn and instead of being in 2nd place with over 300,000 chips, I'm in 17th with 100,000. We get down to 24 players and I call an all in with QQ, lose to AK and I'm out with a $75 payday, instead of something in the hundreds or thousands.
Aaargh. Not sure what advice I'm looking for here. I'm trying to stay patient, and I know I can't expect to be at the final table once in every 15 ~600 player tourneys. But that got me very frustrated. Over four hours to win 75 bucks, 50 profit. The last two 30-40 player live tourneys I played, same story: finished in the money in both, 4th & 6th. How do people who play primarily MTTs handle the swings? I need to win 60% of my sessions to feel like a good player!
I was the first to 100,000 for my only lead of the night when we were down to about 130 players (~650 entrants, 63 places pay). I got there with a tough call in a hand where I was the BB with A9 and called a raise from the SB. Flop was Q93, he made a small bet, I made a mini raise, he pushed, and I called his T4o. We were the two big stacks at the table at around 50,000 each and I was quite proud of my call.
Things were mostly quiet the next hour or so, and I stayed between 4th and 7th place for a long time. I was 5th with 29 players left, with 220,000. I lost 20,000 on the first hand I flipped over where I was behind (AQ v AK short stacked), then inched back up to about 210,000. The blinds were now 6000/12000 I believe. I raised to 36,000 UTG with AKo. UTG+1 goes all in for 80,000 more and all fold to me. I call and he shows AQ. Q on the turn and instead of being in 2nd place with over 300,000 chips, I'm in 17th with 100,000. We get down to 24 players and I call an all in with QQ, lose to AK and I'm out with a $75 payday, instead of something in the hundreds or thousands.
Aaargh. Not sure what advice I'm looking for here. I'm trying to stay patient, and I know I can't expect to be at the final table once in every 15 ~600 player tourneys. But that got me very frustrated. Over four hours to win 75 bucks, 50 profit. The last two 30-40 player live tourneys I played, same story: finished in the money in both, 4th & 6th. How do people who play primarily MTTs handle the swings? I need to win 60% of my sessions to feel like a good player!