It's been EONS since I played any tournaments online. Sure, I'll do a random $2 turbo sit n go every now and again, but I haven't played any bigger tournaments in a long time. Until tonight. I decided to try my hand at a couple 90-person tournaments, one on FTP, on on Poker Stars. I registered for a $1.10 deepstack 90-seat sit n go on FTP, and a $2.20 90-seat sit n go on Stars. Both started at approximately the same time.
First - the good news:
I final tabled both. Took 6th in the FTP one, and 2nd in the Stars one.
Makes me feel good; gives me some more confidence in my game again - I learned poker from tournaments, then migrated to cash games, and haven't played a tournament in years really, so I wasn't sure if I would have the skills with me still. Turns out it's still there - and I think Rush Poker helped, too -- first off, that I've seen tens-of-thousands of hands over the past couple weeks, thanks to 2 or 3 tabling Rush poker, I've just been able to have the experience of seeing all these odd things happen, and I had to try to adapt to them - adapt to my opponents' tendencies. Rush is tough since it's a different set of opponents each hand, but for me it helped to start to classify a "super-set" of my oponents, not as individuals, but as groups of opponents with different tendencies.
I might try playing more tournaments for the time being, and hopefully I'll build up a decent roll on FTP to dive back into Rush poker. After all, it's so much fun!
I definitely like the tournament structures at Stars MUCH better than on FTP - more time, slower levels - you get a lot of room to play there. But I like the feel of the FTP site better than Stars. Whatever, that's just cosmetics, so it's easy to deal with. And I like that all the tournaments (on both sites) take breaks at 5 before the hour - nice that they're together like that.
Rush Poker - wow. What a goldmine in rake - brilliant from a business standpoint! It is a lot of fun, too. Pauly's post about his Rush Omaha experience is worth the read - I can identify with a lot in that story.
I'd better get back to playing. I'm unemployed, with a lot of time on my hands, so playing online poker has become a BIG distraction. I'm glad I just fell back into the spell of tournaments, though - I forgot how much fun they can be! And who knows, maybe I'll have a big score one of these days!
