My First Straight Flush

Man, this was so perfect. I flopped the straight flush and my caller flopped the A-high flush.

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Pride before the fall

It’s been a rough few days.
After doing so well, we (I say we since my wife has been playing with me lately) hit a rough patch. We were down about $20 after losing 8 tournaments in a row. Bad stuff.
Since then, I’ve been practicing at play money tourneys at full tilt, and sitting down at [...]

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Positions: March 27, 2008

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $10.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
Real Money

PokerStars: $69.79 (+$7.70)
Full Tilt Poker: $1.15 (no change)
Total Deposited: $100.00
Lifetime Money position: $70.94 (-$29.06)

Play Money

PokerStars: 69,175 (no change)
Full Tilt Poker: 36,801 (no change)
PuzzlePirates: 2,470 (no change)

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Finally Learning to Make Money with NLHE Tourneys

You finished the tournament in 4th place.
A $1.80 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $14.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
Real money tourneys are going well. I’m playing $4 and under tourneys, usually with 18-45 people and I’m placing 50% of [...]

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Breaking Even

You finished the tournament in 5th place.
A $20.25 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
After my first losses playing with real money, I think I’m finally getting the hang of it. This win finally put me up a little bit on my second $50 deposit (I was down about $20 at the [...]

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New (More Successful) Pre-flop Strategy

I came across this great article by Andy Bloch on pre-flop strategies. It’s helped me quite a bit and I think definitely contributed to my recent winnings in the money tournaments (including one first place finish!)Some quotes from the article that helped me in particular:

I recently talked with a newer pro who told me [...]

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Winning is Boring

Last time I played with real money, I lost it all pretty quickly. But when I play with fake money, I win very consistently. I place in almost every tourney and do fairly well at the tables. This makes things very boring- which is odd because I assumed that winning would make things fun.
I suppose [...]

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Positions: March 12, 2008

Back to play money.
Play Money

PokerStars: $69,325 (+$13,500)
Full Tilt Poker: $42,913 (+$36,020)
PuzzlePirates: $2,470 (no change)

Real Money

Full Tilt Poker: $1.15 (-$37.65)

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What’s the Deal with Deposits?

After placing 3rd in another play money tourney tonight, I decided to try my hand at real money again.
Last time I deposited, I had to try about 6 different cards before Full Tilt could finally process it. I guess some banks have restrictions on money transfers to gambling sites?
There are several posts about this, including:

Pokerstars, [...]

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Getting Good at Play Money Tourneys

After failing miserably at playing for real money, I’ve decided to go back to play money for a bit. Since going back, I find that I can place in almost every tournament I get into. I don’t necessarily win every time, but I definitely get to the final table. I remember this was a such [...]

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