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Before I mention the promotion I have to mention a hand at the recent JP Masters.
We were six handed and on my right was a player called Tony who had been taking some time to make his decisions. He then got involved in a pot with Scott Gray, was raised on the flop and once again went into the tank. He began cutting out his chips, staring at Scott then restacked his chips, stroked his chin, went back to cutting out the raise then cutting out a possible re-raise, then sighed and put the chips into stacks then put them all into one stack and then began pondering again. Then he cut out some different coloured chips and began stacking them. The table was in complete silence, then Nicky sat back in his chair, looked at him and said: "I bet you were good at Lego as a kid".
At Marty's Poker Million final I was having an inebriated conversation with Dave Callaghan when in a moment of clarity Dave said to me "I hate these online tournaments on sites that get millions of runners and take 9-10 hours". I was in total agreement. As someone who has to work for a living I find I can't enter half the tournaments I would like to due to time constraints. I just wanna get a shot of tournament adrenalin and I also love the fact a quick clock knocks out a huge level of skill which completely suits my game.
I know I'm not the only one. Some friends of mine love a game of poker but kept doing their money and turned to me (ha-ha) for help. They all suffered from the same problem, boredom. They all loved playing but found after an hour or so all they wanted to do was launch; not a great strategy when you are on level 4 of a tournament which may last 10 hours. Gerry did some analysis and thinks most of the tournaments will be completed within two hours, hurrah for that.
There is still a skill to turbo tournaments; it's just a different kind of skill. Evaluating hand rankings to blinds, position, considering your opponent's stacks, betting history, position etc is all relevant but due to the sheer speed of these things you're never going to go to far wrong just shovelling it in first and crossing your fingers. The difference is, as Dave and I happily agreed, there is one massive upside in doing this, if you lose the pub is still open.
Comments (4)
I seen the hand you got done with AA, but you must have re-bought automatically, as you said on the show you were out - I pointed out in the chat box that you were still in but you must have stopped watching? , you were forced in by the blind on 92os, there was two of us besides in the hand, other guy raised the flop [K high] 3000, I knew he was after the bounty so re-raise all in with my K10s, and bingo! Lol :)