Playing For A Chip

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Good weekend at the tables for us. We placed third in a fairly tough multi, and took $60 off the suckers our friends in our Friday night home game. Still, we got our ass kicked in the Full Tilt Poker Tournament Chip Sit-and-Gos. Jason Kirk has some idea as to how those tourneys should be played:

“There are essentially only two gears in these tournaments: 1st and 5th. Either they crawl along for an hour and a half, with 4 players deadlocked and nobody wanting to make a move, or they’re over in 30 minutes with one player eliminating everyone else at the table. If you get into one of the slow ones and pick your spots well, you can pilfer the other players’ stacks almost at will. If you get into one of the turbo-fests, pray to the poker gods for a hand that holds up.”

He’s got more to say, but that point resonates here. We lost QQ vs. 66 on the river in one, and AQ to AT in another to cripple us to short stack hell. We did win one of these chips, and are praying for an overlay this weekend to try to make a score. God knows we aren’t suckling at the teats we’re used to after Friday.

$4+.40 Token Satellites at Full Tilt [Jason Kirk]