The WCOOP is just one day away, are you ready to play and and see if you are the best Online Poker Player in the World? Qualifying Tournaments are running on Poker Stars.com and Poker Stars.net for a little as $11.00. How can you not play in a qualifying tournament for $11.00 and a chance to be entered into the final WCOOP Tournament and your chance to over $1M in prize money!!
Online poker tournaments are becoming increasing harder to cash in, the number of entrants in some of the tournaments are astronomical and the luck factor is becoming too much of an issue. The recklessness of some players and overall lack of thought process in some fo the calls and PF all in's . The VPIP of some players just indicates a lack of knowledge and position of play. For those of use that understrand the abilities of agression and when to use or as the industry calls "changing gears" will always cause us to come out ahead statistically but i do have to admit, when I'm playing good and some fool come sin to pl;ay "Bingo Poker" and i raise PF with AA and the fool re-raises me in a tournamnet that has gone 2/3'rds of the way out of position with J2 off and we both have equal amount of chips relavent to the leader whihc means we are in the top 20 chip leaders, and i re-raise him thinking he knows that I'm playing solid poker only to find out he calls me. The flop hits the board and of course he hits two pair!! Js, 2s, 7d!!! He pushes all in for the remining 1/3 of his chip stack , some would automatically call with the bullets and only 1/3 chips remaing however, here is the difference between good players and great players. I thought it through...possibly Trips, which makes me a big underdog, if he is on a flush draw, I am a favorite, no straight draws so the only thing left to do is ....BET with less than 20 BB i SHIPPED IT..i got called and i instantly thought.TRIPS..but no...TWO PAIR J,2!!!! of couse at that point i was a hughe underdog and i didn't hit my A so I got knocked out!!!
The moral of my story is still unknown to me. Did I play bad? i don't think so. did i make the wrong move after the flop? again i don't think so, the out come would have beent he same if i shipped it pre-flop? maybe that is where i went wrong, but he didn't play the hand right to start of with when he calls my re-raise with J2 off that was just bad poker he comitted 2/3rds of his chips. I can't understand. Barry GReenstien once said in High Stakes Poker that math is IDIOTIC when he put a bad beat on Tom "DURRR" Dwan for a pot of over $500,000.00. Well Barry my hat is off to you becasue this guy didn't know math, didn't poker, didn't knowe position but he still won.
Is it turn that if in a cash game i could have just re-bought and over time i would have takern all his chips? Maybe becasue in this Game Luck only takes you so far. I believe that. it was his lucky day and I couldn't buy back in. I just had to suck it up and chaulk it up as another learning experience on the felt!!!
So remember get you money in when you have the best of it, the out come will be the same and all you can do is know you made the right moves at the right time!
Sign up for your chance to play at the WCOOP and see if you can out beat some of the fish that are out there. Play solid and over the long run you will come out ahead.
Stay tuned for my next article on Money mangement, bank rolls and being staked. It's sure to help and entertain you.
thanks for stopping by and reading .... Keep the cards close to you chest!!!
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