what do u do when u don't get the cards

[Moyer]

That's exactly what I was thinking.

How did you pick up on that so fast?(Have you seen it more than once? [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img])

[PITTM]

i got there about an hour before they started and looked at the stacks, 100 chips with 5-10 blinds. I got them to change the stacks to 2000 chips with 5-10 blinds. needless to say, it was much longer and much more fun.

rj

[TheSheath]

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the game is n/l texas holdem.

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someone's watched Rounders a few too many times.

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sorry i don't get it. but i have seen rounders twice. but i still don't get it.

[TheSheath]

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i played for probably and hour and a half

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plays basically like limit b/c no one does any extordinary bets. just bet cal call call.


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Sounds like a home tournament. I bet you didn't get more than 40 hands.

1 - You shouldn't expect to get a large number of good starting hands in such a small sample.
2 - If you get mostly crap hands like you did, you shouldn't bust out of the tournament within 40 hands...
2a - unless the starting stacks are too small and/or the blinds go up too fast. If this is the case, then expect to go through lots of losing streaks, since these tournaments are even more of a crapshoot than normal.

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basically everything u just said is right. i might bring that up next time we play. we played with 5$ in chips with .1/.2 blinds.

[AviD]

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is it just not my night

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Bad runs happen.


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or is there something i should be doing.

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There are two things you should be doing...
1) Folding those hands
2) Observing the rest of the players

[Cleveland Guy]

Did you try a bluff? Sounds like the table is very passive, and no one is taking the lead

A couple of bluffs might have bought you another few rounds of blinds to get that better hand.

Or were all bets of any size getting called down?