Royal Flush Poker

In the past week I have taken part in two live tournaments, not finding much success in either. In the first I had a bluff go wrong when I missed my flush draw, partly because I did not read the situation as well as I should.

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Once my stack had been diminished by this hand, I found myself involved in a hand with (7d,8d). I do not mind playing suited connectors as long as it is not too expensive to see a flop, but sometimes you can find yourself in a lot of trouble when your draw misses. In this case, the flop brought two diamonds and options to make a straight with a 5 or 9. After moving all in neither the turn or river helped me and I was out fairly early. Just last night I played the second tournament and played better, although my luck hadn’t improved much as I saw my pocket kings beaten by (Kh,Jh). My opponent made a straight on the turn and eliminated me in 7th place.

Sometimes I feel it takes me a little while to get my reading of opponents hands up to speed, and I always feel like I play better as I get deeper into tournaments. Poker can of course be very unforgiving in this regard, and I feel it is always better to play for a little while before going to a tournament in order to get yourself into the right mindset.

I have not had much of a chance to play online recently, but PKR is my current favourite site and I have had some success with the ‘terminator’ tournaments running there. With this in mind, I shall perhaps make some time in the next week for online play.