$4.10 to over $30, and then bust

08-28-2006, 03:11 PM

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$4.10 to over $30, and then bust

I won $1.10 and $3 from the two most recent cakepoker thf tourneys, and thought I'd play with it (yes I no-showed both these tourneys, been hectic lately!)
Anyway, I was playing NL Ring Holdem with 3 people in the table, players changed but I kept making money, a small bluff seemed enough to bluff people off pots who weren't holding anything and I used this to my advantage. We played 100-200 hands and my chip stack built up, I suffered some losses but was making a strong net gain.
I finally lost out when I guy went all-in on the turn with his chipstack of $44 against mine of $30 with second pair, and I called with top pair.
River gave him triplets...
I know I should put this down to bad luck - but how annoying I was doing so well!
Anyway I was pleased with myself for playing $4.10 up to $30 in about an hour, and I didn't put a cent in!

08-28-2006, 06:56 PM

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I here ya' Ben.....I placed 7th in the $250 Dep FR and cashed $12 and could only play the 1st 30mins of the tourney through work commitments and likewise didn't sit at all in the $250 standard THF FR and cashed $3......Sat on the 25/50c very early this morning with a couple of THFers at the table (zom and J) with $15 from my winnings and managed to leave after a couple of hours with $70 which put $80 in my account so I cashed out $50 which now puts me quits with Cake and leaves $30 in my account to continue to clear my bonus.

However what I would of done in your situation, rightly or wrongly would have been to leave the table for about 30-60mins when you were on $30ish and then re-sat at the table with the min buy-in, therefore banking a good part of your winnings.

I like sites that continue a table memory (such as Poker.com) so whatever you stand up with...if you return to that table later that day you will have to buy-in with whatever you left the table with if it was above the table min buy-in.....so when a site doesn't have this feature IMO your best of taking full advantage of it.......Bit late now but if you ever manage to increase your B/R 8 fold again at the table, I'd say get off the table, bank it and re-buy with the min a bit later on.

08-28-2006, 07:57 PM

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I love doing that - i once turned $1 bonus money into $56 then my QQ all-in pre flop was called by JJ.... Any guesses what the river was? lol good fun tho

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08-28-2006, 08:49 PM

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I was playing with you ben...and the big stack was kim66. He totally sucks. The other player was also pretty bad. CAKEing chasers.

08-28-2006, 09:03 PM

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I was playing with you ben...and the big stack was kim66. He totally sucks. The other player was also pretty bad. CAKEing chasers.

And was one sober during this particular table seating J my friend....????lmao

08-28-2006, 09:33 PM

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I was playing with you ben...and the big stack was kim66. He totally sucks. The other player was also pretty bad. CAKEing chasers.

You were indeed! Thanks for making me feel better about my win (well not a win but you know what I mean).

For the first time though I really felt I could make money out of online poker!

08-28-2006, 09:52 PM

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well sonny, i had no alcohol. I lost 4 buyings to kim66. No more alcohol and poker mixture. o and ben, don't worry, we'll see you back at the tables soon.