FCPC so close but not really

I was dealt Pocket Aces about 1.5 hours into this single table shootout. I doubled through the chip leader when I flopped a set of aces and he flopped a set of 5's. Presto was going to be out and about all night you see. 10 players in total bucked up $125 down at the False Creek Poker club. Winner takes all (second place money back) for a nice pot totalling $1100. This was a satallite that I really wanted to take down as the winner was to use the money to buy their spot in the BCPC event where THAT winner would scoop roughly $112,500. As you can tell, this was a great opportunity to make a splash and finally get into a biggie and eventually, well win.

I was unprepared.

There is a lot to be said for playing on a regular basis, especially in person. There are just so many other factors to consider as opposed to online. I found that bet sizing was consistenly difficult. I don't know if it was me not being used to grabbing chips instead of punching in some digits that made sense, or if it was the fact that I didn't play up to my expectations and make the correct decisions when absolutely necessary. Either way, it's always a grind and the players are the FCPC definitly have a grasp of most of the concepts that I read about and try to apply online. Congrats to Simon, the winner, I'll be there at the River Rock railing you if possible.

But I'm getting a little ahead of myself, so let's take a look at where I went wrong.

First off - your opponents are not going to make the right decisions all of the time, and they will still get lucky and beat you. This a fact of poker. The risk of the unknown.

So when you raise it 3.5x the BB from the CO with 5 players left with pocket fives, you have to reasonably assume that there will be instances when your opponent will call with say a hand like Q-10h on the button. Yep.

You know how it goes. I flop a set (Presto is gold was there by the way, more on that later) of fives and I am now out of position after the button called my preflop raise. Fuel called preflop as well but folded after checking the flop and watching me bet out 30% of the pot (mistake) and being called by the button call station. The turn is a 10c. I double the bet but still "price her in" and she raises and I auto push. She flips the flush draw with the pair and boom down comes the ace of hearts... about 30 minutes later I am done.


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ok enough of that. Somehow I hit "post" and I am too lazy to figure out how to "undo this post until it is ready" so I'm just going to finish it off for now.

I wrote most of this a few days ago, so it might not even mae sense now.

Oh well.

Have I said how much I hate people that comitt to an offer, and then have to collapse it based on the fact that their "guarantor" backed out of the deal. So fawking annoying!!

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I'm currently playing in my first MFC and was dealt 9's against mookie:



Good times.

Lots going on re: the apartment. But nothing is a guarantee until its a guarantee...