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thanks for your input(space)next tourney is this sunday(space)hope you enjoy next post....check it out sunday night...i'll throw a pizza party if i win! byob...(end paragraph/post)

i am 19 yrs. old and have been playing poker online for a few years now, with very good results. i have been able to quit work and live off my poker winnings and build my bankroll. i have had reasonable success in online tournaments, but i prefer online cash games...so i decided that it is time to begin playing in brick and mortar tourneys. my goal is to build up my winnings through beginning in small buy in tourneys and building my bankroll for bigger buy in events to play in a year when i turn 21 (feb 15 of 2006). so with every tourney i play, i will post my thoughts on hands, players and m

Thanks a lot for you replies...after thinking about this hand and reading your replies, i should have laid it down...anyways hope you all enjoy this new section and my posts, there will be many more. All your input really helps...it's great having insight to so many different styles of play. Hope all your poker goes great till next post!

Because of the fact you are playing a sit n go, then making the money is the most important factor, although everyone should play for first, if you are 4 handed and a big decision comes up, your thoughts should be "am i making the right play to make the money?" Now having thought this, the chances of you being dominated by the small blind are miniscule, so you are at worst a coinflip, but most likely a 2-1 or even a 3-1 favorite. I dont like the bb's decision to move in on you here, but some players are more aggressive than others. But in this scenario, you have to put the sb on either p

I have started writing about certain hands i play in tournaments, both online and at casinos, please respond with any thoughts or comments on your opinion on the hand and how i played it. thanks for your posts and comments!!i thought this hand to be interesting in a tourney i played:i am dealt pocket jacks in the small blind with 1830 chips with the blinds at 25/50. 3 players limp in, and the player to the right of the button raises all in. Now i was planning on making a decent sized raise, maybe about 250,( i know thats 5 times the bb, but players are so damn loose these days) to push out the