3rd place finish

I have made another final table today for a whopping $220.20 profit on a game that cost me $2.22 to enter(weird).
Looks like 2 might be my lucky number of the day.
I'm still debating if I should play another tourney or take a break, and a break sounds good.
The following are my tourney stats from PS along with my Screen of my finish, I'm Orion469 to those who don't know me.

416 hands played and saw flop:
- 18 times out of 62 while in small blind(29%)
- 29 times out of 62 while in big blind(47%)
- 35 times out of 292 in other positions(12%)
- a total of 82 times out of 416(20%)
Pots won at showdown - 18 out of 28(64%)
Pots won without showdown - 41

Been a long time

I havn't been posting in here regularly because I have been on a bad downswing over the past couple weeks and I finally think it has come to an end.
As you all know, I play at the micro levels and finally FT'd for a 6th place finish for $75.10, a profit of $72.90.
One hand where I doubled my stack, not impressive in any sort of way.


The next hand really brought me up in the tourney chipwise.

Like villian thought his 2pr was good, go figure.

This next hand increased my chipstack, again not too impressive as the villian was not that great of a player and made me wonder how he got this far.

I had been playing at this table for quite some time now and villian looked pretty solid, raising in position, shown down some good hands, but for some reason I had put him on AK/AQ and had a good idea I was ahead because A7 was not with-in his range, don't get me wrong, it did cross my mind for a second.

The following hand was just plain stupidity on my part, I had seen villian play inferior hands and I thought I had the better hand, really was hoping villian was holding QJ/KQ


Suffice to say that I had placed 6th in this tourney and I'm sure I would have taken first if I had not screwed it up.
That's how it goes, one mistake this late in tourney is a killer.

Later all, hope to see you again soon.

Bluffing micros online

Some students of the online game recommend never bluffing. They make a good case-and I think it's a solid one-that simply waiting for good cards and then playing them aggressively is a sufficiently profitable strategy. Since most players call too much, it only makes sense to exploit their flaw by pushing your good hands and throwing away the rest.
If you come out raising cheesy hands on a tight table, you might be able to steal a few hand but eventually players will get tired of this. Best bet: just wiat for good cards. Wait and push.
I'm not saying to completely throw bluffing out of your arsenal, just bluff those players who you know will be easily pushed off hands by any reads you have on these players.
Sure there are timid and scared players that may fold to your bluffs, but these same players will call most itmes and let them, we play better hands than them and soon we will be taking all their money with selective aggression.
If you find yourself in a game where selective aggression is not working,then you're in the wrong game and time to move on, there is a more profitable game out there.
The most important ingredient in selective aggression is discipline and the ability to be patient and wait for the right cards.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and hope you walk away with a better understanding of why bluffing doesn't work as well as you had been hoping.