September 07, 2007
(partial) Anatomy of a Winning Online Poker Tourney

Not sure why, but one night I felt like taking some screen grabs of me winning a tourney. Of course, I didn't know I was going to win.. but I was pretty darn sure (I'm no slouch at poker, after all, and I felt the win coming). This was at the final table. I think there were 360 or 380 people in the tourney. I'm the handsome guy on the bottom.

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I'm chip lead over 3 others. A card was flying down at the time, I wasn't in this hand. When there are short-stacks I usually play fairly tight because they can have a tendency to go all-in at any time instead of trying to just win good hands and grow their stack.

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The shark is gone. He went all-in, which is what I was guarding against.

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Uh oh, I have Jacks. I believe I took this hand.

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The rock is now gone, A7 offsuit, only raising 16k, I called.

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Last grab, 195k, now I have 309k. Guess my A7 payed off.

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No question who was going to win this hand. My confidence was high, and the stupid gecko wasn't going to beat me.

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Flop on the (what would be) final hand. He's at 90k, either he'd push in, or I'd force him to (you can see it's my bet, so I bet 100k). He'd have to know if he folded it's be quite an uphill battle from 90k to overtake my 450k stack. Especially, at that 10k/20k blinds.

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Sorry dude, my fish hooks win.

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Yipee! Yet another round 2. I lost it, but recall I was in the top 60 (out of more than 2000 people).

Anyways, maybe I should take grabs more often. It's sort of fun looking back on games.

Posted by Kevin at September 07, 2007 10:29 PM
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