Lucky Streak Poker

Pokerroom.com – I have just finished playing a lengthy 3 hours and 40 minutes of Five Card Draw, and was hoping to win a seat in a large guaranteed tournament. With a maximum starting field of 6,000 players, I did well early on building a chipstack which I steadily held at about twice the average stack size for the first hour and a half. I managed to pick up extra chips from time to time through making strong preflop raises, standing pat, and bluffing the player out after the draw. This is a good play to use as it strongly suggests you have a made hand dealt to you and most hands will fold to a strong raise after the draw. If used too often though it can arouse suspicion so you must be careful.

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I found some more legitimate hands along the way too though, even being dealt four 8′s on one occasion. With starting stacks of 2,000 chips I was happy to have built a chipstack of 25,000 but I made the mistake of sitting back for a while, allowing others to accumulate big stacks too. When I began to get involved in the action again, I found myself playing more tentatively so as not to lose a big pot. In essence, I was altering my previously successful style of play which was not wise.
With one eye on the remaining players as the number dropped to 500, I was swinging back and forth between 20 and 35 thousand chips when I was unfortunately involved in a hand against the chip leader after being dealt a set of twos. My preflop raise to 5,000 did not deter the player from calling with a pair of Queens, and they promptly hit a set. This did a lot of damage and I couldn’t recover, eventually finishing 254th place. With only 48 seats on offer I came close, but then that almost seems worse than going out early on. Pokerroom

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