Winning Streak

Well, I sure hope this lasts forever. I'm back. I'm focused. I know when I'm making good EV decisions and I know when I'm not. I don't need to see my opponents or their hands. I know where I stand. Maybe I'll try playing a tournament without looking at my cards! Nah, I'm not that good...yet!

So here's the latest results. Yes, this is all small ball, but I decided to start small and grow. I played 4/8 Fri at the Belle and lost $100. Went back on Mon and won $100. Saturday and today I played small tournies on Poker Stars. Played 11 tournaments and cashed in 7.

I got a small cash first for like $4 in a $2 T.

Then placed 3rd in a 18 player Fixed Limit T. $1.75 buyin, $5.40 cash

Next played a single table Badugi $1.20 T and took 1st for a whopping $4.

Placed 6th in a 87 player $2.20 mixed limit/nolimit tournament for $7.83.

Took 55th place out of 3395 players and cashed $14.59 in a $2.20 NL tournament.

Cashed 10th place in a 1000 player 4-handed NL tournament that cost $4.40 and paid me $70.40.

And I won a stupid 10FPP rebuy sattellite which got me a seat into a $3 rebuy tournament that I didn't want to play. 22 people won entries and I hoped I could unregister from the $3 T but it had already started so I just donked out... too many screens open so I chose to focus on the others.

My secret? Shhh, don't tell anyone. I figure that everyone in a $4, $2, $1 tournament is a donkey. With that in mind I keep the pot small and then hammer them when I got the goods! I'm also prepared to fold when I think that donkey might have just gone card, card to catch some stupid hand. I expect them to make stupid calls and I expect to profit from their stupid calls.

Maybe it's a safer outlook to  have on poker in general. Instead of thinking, "There's no way you made 2 (or more) bad calls to run me down so I must have the best hand and I call your all in," my new philosophy is, "Yeah, I know you're a donkey, and I had the best hand all the way, but not anymore and I'm not married to it." And sometimes my thinking is, "No, your Ace high is not good enough but thank you for pushing allin and my pocket threes will gladlyy take all your chips."

You know it really is amazing at just how big of a donkey these players are. I reraised with AK. An Ace hits the flop, and this guy dumped dumped his whole stack on my lap with KK. I love donkeys. And I love rich Texans... next stop, Coushatta! I don't know when, but my mouth waters when anyone even mumbles the word "Kinder". Yeah Baby.