Monday, January 08, 2007
Midnight Madness on Full Tilt
A fair amount of poker over the weekend focused around some low limit tournaments and SnG's on Full Tilt. The highlight coming in the Midnight Madness $8K guarantee and with 1405 runners had a prize pool of $14K, so plenty of cash around. I was feeling pretty confident about my state of play I'd finished 6th, 2nd and 1st playing $5.50 SnG's earlier in the day.
The day before 48th from 552 $5.50 MTT (should have been much deeper here but I'll save that for another post as a learning exercise for the kids out there), 79th from 836 $1.10 MTT, 7th from 1800 $100 Freeroll, all deep(ish) money finishes.
Midnight Madness I finish 65th from those 1405 for a $26 collect. The thing about this was that I was always well behind the average the entire time. I was getting zero cards, but managed to get a good collect when I got a look at a flop. I was only seeing the flop around 13%,(24 from 184 hands) so very tight and managing to win 54% when seeing the flop and 65% of times when going to showdown.
Now I am not sure if this is good, any comments on accepted levels of winning percentages when seeing the flop would be welcome.
The 13% is the final flop percentage, it is a little misleading as during most of the tournament it was more around 20%-22%. After the 3rd break I essentially had nothing, my last ten hands (7 hands of 800/1600 and 3 hands of 1000/2000 blinds), A3os, T8os, T7os, T5os, 76os, 75os, 52os, J3os, 72os, 55. I finally went out pushing my miniscual $2.5K stack with 55, two callers JTs, T9os, A892K on the flop so almost got through, both callers checked through so I thought I was a chance. I cannot complain too much about 20 hands earlier I had A8 again with about 2.5K pushed all in to be called by a fellow short stack who had AA, I hit my 8 on the flop then again on the river to stay alive, that would have placed me about 78th and still in the money, I gained an extra $4 or something.
Poker is pretty satisfying when you can play well...lets hope I keep that perspective over the rest of the year.
Might put up some goals for 07 next post...
¶ Monday, January 08, 2007
The day before 48th from 552 $5.50 MTT (should have been much deeper here but I'll save that for another post as a learning exercise for the kids out there), 79th from 836 $1.10 MTT, 7th from 1800 $100 Freeroll, all deep(ish) money finishes.
Midnight Madness I finish 65th from those 1405 for a $26 collect. The thing about this was that I was always well behind the average the entire time. I was getting zero cards, but managed to get a good collect when I got a look at a flop. I was only seeing the flop around 13%,(24 from 184 hands) so very tight and managing to win 54% when seeing the flop and 65% of times when going to showdown.
Now I am not sure if this is good, any comments on accepted levels of winning percentages when seeing the flop would be welcome.
The 13% is the final flop percentage, it is a little misleading as during most of the tournament it was more around 20%-22%. After the 3rd break I essentially had nothing, my last ten hands (7 hands of 800/1600 and 3 hands of 1000/2000 blinds), A3os, T8os, T7os, T5os, 76os, 75os, 52os, J3os, 72os, 55. I finally went out pushing my miniscual $2.5K stack with 55, two callers JTs, T9os, A892K on the flop so almost got through, both callers checked through so I thought I was a chance. I cannot complain too much about 20 hands earlier I had A8 again with about 2.5K pushed all in to be called by a fellow short stack who had AA, I hit my 8 on the flop then again on the river to stay alive, that would have placed me about 78th and still in the money, I gained an extra $4 or something.
Poker is pretty satisfying when you can play well...lets hope I keep that perspective over the rest of the year.
Might put up some goals for 07 next post...
¶ Monday, January 08, 2007
