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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

turbo tourny
December 05, 2005 - 9:42 pm

in a normal one, blinds go up every 30 minutes. in the turbo.. blinds go up every 5 minutes.

there's a _hell_ of a difference. not to mention less people seem to enter, so basic odds are better.

i played in my first one today.. and at hand six i was in first place. didn't last long, but that's ok.

it took about 2 hours.. which is short compared to the f'ing marathon i played this weekend...

towards the end i found myself in 10th with about 18,000 chips. blinds were 4,00/8,000. two hands before i was the big blind, i realized.. i'm about to lose 12,000 chips to the blinds. that's alot. so i call 8,000 with KJ. then i realize "oh shit, if i lose this hand, i'm fucked. i only have 10,000 chips left."

by the skin of my teeth i won. up to 33,000 chips and in 5th place.

some.. five hands later i'm back in 17th place. f'ing blinds.

top 19 earn a seat to a big ass tourny with a 500,000 prize pool. i've no illusions about that monster. not my league, not yet anyway.

but you see.. if i earn the seat, i earn what's called T$, tourny dollars. i earn $215, what it costs to enter the big ass beast.

i can sell my seat for $200 in real cash. yep, people buy and sell T$ and other things on pokerstars. how they make money, i don't care. i can $200 for my investment of $11 and 1.5 hours of time.

with blinds now 6,000/12,000.. i watch quite nervious for the last two people to bomb out. if they don't i'm screwed. i've less than both blinds in chips.

i debate, do i pick a hand and go all in.. risk being the guy who finishes 20th or 21st? only two seats to go.. people with a lot less chips than me under huge pressure from the blinds.

i wait. they lose. i win. i sell. i happy.

lesson learned: beware the blinds when playing. i could have sat pretty damn fat and happy in the middle/end of the game in the top five.. and but no, i bet. i played. i lost. i fell to 10th and the blinds nearly killed me.

next time i'm going to pay tighter at the end. my cushion of 40k in chips would have held well -- well better than how i fared.

it was short. it was fun. playing with the big blinds is interesting. most of all, i made nice cash.

i think i'm going to restart the selectnumber bed fund.

i wonder how long till i lose it all...