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You can't think about it that way... You were a big underdog preflop and the fold was correct.You played the hand well...

The correct play is folding pre-flop... you can argue all you want about the play after that point, but what would have saved you money is to fold the crappy hand."Pot committed" is not reality. Money in the pot is NOT YOURS... you need to make all decisions based on your odds of winning the pot at the time.

The guy I was sitting next to at my table was the one who offered as soon as I had won it. He was real nice about it and had the cash, so it didn't seem shady or anything.Like somebody else said, it was $500 in cheap ass chips (same plastic quality they have a Target in the Michael Graves poker set if anyone has those). We generally played between 5 and 7 hands per blind round (15 minutes). Ridiculous. I got lucky and got queens, tens, and aces once each in the first 30 hands or so and managed to stay in it. When the blinds got to 100-200, it was just an all-in fest with the last 7 peop

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I just got back from winning a $100 one table satellite into the $1000 buy in NL tourney tomorrow at Harrah's in AC. I'd say it was 40% skill and 60% luck... mostly a crap shoot. I got real lucky a rivered an 8 for a set of 8's against another guys pocket Kings after my first all in and tripled up.Anyway, after thinking about it, I've decided not to play in the tournament tomorrow because I can't justify that much of my bankroll going to one tournament quite yet. I wish they hadn't given me the choice and forced me to play, but it's probably not the best idea to play my first tournament o

For those of you that have asked "how much", I don't think anyone has responded yet.Doyle Brunson recommends $1 for pots under $50, $2 from $50-$200ish and use your judgement above that...I don't know if it was in super system or in the poker stories book, but I'm 99% sure it was Doyle.

So, as most of us are, I'm amazed that people consistantly bet $100,000 pots... freakin' amazing. Just wondering how the whole money exchange works with these big betters? Do each of them just have an "account" at the Bellagio that is credited or debited each day? I can assume that when Daniel says he won $50K today, he's not walking out of there with 500 $100 bills.If anyone knows the specifics of how it is handled, I'd be very interested to know. Thanks!

So I finally broke down and got poker tracker... I've been playing poker online for about 8 months now and I really needed to figure out what was going on with my game because I wasn't making the big dough like I should be. So I load poker tracker in, and finally get all of my hands imported... use the auto-rate feature... and BAM: I'm loose - aggressive - aggressive.Hmmmm... I never thought of myself as loose. I knew I played more hands than I should, but I didn't think it was THAT bad.So my VPIP is 34, which is really high apparently. Over about 11000 hands at low limits I have mana

I played a lot a Bally's and they seemed very layed back about "posting" when you came in. Generally there was a wait to get a seat at the table, so you couldn't leave and come back after the blinds without waiting for a seat again. If you are at the table and miss the blinds (go to the bathroom or whatever), they put a little puck in your spot that says "missed blind" and you have to post the blinds when you get back.As far as rake goes, Ballys was 10% up to $4 per hand I believe... which is probably pretty high.

They just would have to change the format slightly. Do 1000 people a day for ten days... that would weed out half the field. Then 2000 for three days... half more.... then you're down to the 2500-3000 that were there originally.That or just get a couple hundred GIANT tents out in the desert.