| 18 May | My MTT questPosted by PokerBarney on 11:24PM, 18th May 2006Permalink |  Send to a friend |  RSS feed |
So... I think we can all see that the STT quest died. I kept it up for a bit, but to be honest STTs have too much variance for my liking. There's not enough time or hands for the better player to rely entirely on his skill. Plus, the types of players that you're up against varies incredibly - some STTs last minutes (see Masterplans recent entry) and some hours! Maybe it's just my playing style, but I don't like them. There is a niggling doubt in my head though.. telling me that high buy in STTs can give better value for money.. I don't know. We'll see how this quest goes first :) I've been playing $10 MTTs recently, with a decent success rate. Most 200-250 entries, with top 20-30 places paying. I decided to keep a spreadsheet of my progress, and I'm going to play daily for a month, then wave my profits in the face of all the women in my life who've told me poker is gambling. So far I've cashed 66% of the time and reached the final 33% of the time. Not a bad start, but can I keep it up? Of the final tables, one was 8th (for $35), one 6th (for $110) and one 5th (for $130).. the 8th finish was only 100 or so entrants, so not big money. The other times I've cashed I've pretty much made my buy in back plus a couple of extra dollars, which is nice, but doesn't pay the bills. I think I have "bubble blindness".. meaning that once I spy the money bubble on the horizon, I clam up and get chip scared. More than a few times I folded a good hand preflop after a raise, then hit the ceiling when I hit the flop. So while I might scrape the money most of the time, I manage final table less of the time because I'm too short stacked. I was reading WPT magazine today, and there was a nice article about this sort of problem, so we'll see how it improves my play. I just played in Paradise Pokers Million Dollar Freeroll satellite, and finished 194th from 1488 players. Not bad, my luck eventually ran out and my KQ fell foul of a K10 with a K,8,10 flop. Final 6 qualified, so it was a bit of a lottery, but I felt I played well, loosening up a bit in the latter stages to give myself a decent chance of reaching the top 10. Tiredness always creeps in with a field that size though, so now it's time to stop.
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