Poker end of week 1 (almost)

January 5th, 2009 | Posted by Darren | 1 Comment

Just thought I would drop a quick line to let you know how I have been getting on.

I’ve been full of a cold and not played as much as I would have liked to. I have so far been playing on Nasty Duck Poker and lost a couple of €’s, but nothing much. Main losses have been down to playing freeroll re-buy in games and re buying in too much. I have realised this and will now play a tighter game early on and stop doing stupid all in moves.

What has helped me learn to play a much more patient game is by playing the double or nothing $1 games on PokerStars. I’m up about $10 in the week and have been trying to work off my bonus of $12 from my initial deposit. The double or nothing games can be quite slow and involve a lot of folding until I get a premium hand. To get around the boredom of this I will sometimes play up to 3 tables. Playing enough hands and winning enough posts to stay about average chip stack seems to be good enough. If you decide to play in these types of games, then don’t rush in too much. There are normally 1-2 people that seem to think they will win something if they just sit out and hope that other players end up taking themselves out. Don’t you be the person to take yourself out. By doing this you are playing a very impatient game and need to calm down.

Plan for the coming weeks is to carry on playing in the bounty/freeroll and champions games on Nasty Duck Poker and the rest of the time I will be grinding out my FPP’s on PokerStars.