Tournament Update

An update on my big tournament day. I did not play in the $10,000 tournament. Early in the morning, I played some cash games to warm up and found myself not playing very good cards and losing money. I also learned that this tournament can last until 8pm at night, which would cause me to miss the ESPN tournament. I felt like my chances were going to be better in the ESPN tournament, so I found someone to buy my seat at the Tulalip tournament and went home early.

The ESPN final tournament went okay for me, but no grand prize. Out of 411 entries, I finished 114th. Not quite where I wanted to be, no grand prize, etc. But hey, I think I did okay considering the day I was having. I was in what Harrington calls the Green and Yellow zones during the first hour of the tournament. For a final tournament, I would have figured they would have given each player more than 1500 in tournament chips. I found myself running behind for most of the second hour. Harrington calls this the Orange and Red Zones. I shot myself in the end going all-in with ATo, found one caller who paired his J on the board to knock me out even though I had paired my T.

So I just don’t feel like I was playing good cards today. I’m not playing academically lately and I think I’m playing the game itself and not playing the cards. I think I need to take a little time away from actually playing poker and work on some of the fundamentals. I think I’ll read my books for a few days and not play at all. See you in a few days... maybe.