Winning 5$ at a time

  Scroll down if you just want to see my monthly results! Another month down and i am so ready to turn the page and start september. While i did make quite a lot of money, the run was not enjoyable. Every tournament i played seemed like it was out to get me, all the crazy bubbles, final table bad beats and a break even cash grind. Crazy to think this is the best month i have had in Short deck so far. Running bad always seems to build character and i did a fair bit of learning(i really need to learn some preflop charts). Hopefully september will be a dull grind, i have had enough of swings. I started the month up around 2.1k€ but it really did cool down a bit as every single tournament seemed to have a bad beat in store for me like this one : Lovely right? I guess you have to take these on the chin and move forward. Anyhoo, lets get into my month. Cash game graph is pretty bleak, take out the rake and i am barely profiting at all. The big swings were all from shots in nl10 , i defin...

  The basics of short deck poker. Short deck poker is very different from  Texas hold'em   , cards 2-5 are removed from the game and that changes the whole dynamic of the game. With 36 cards in the deck instead of 52 cards and the use of antes instead of blinds (excluding that button puts on the blind) and antes are 1 big blind everything changes. Raises become more rare, limping becomes normal and it is completely okay to go All in  for 100 big blinds seeing 2 limps in front of you. One hard to adapt change is that flushes beat full houses , due to the fact that it is actually harder to hit a flush then a full house in short deck. The chance to hit a flopped flush draw is roughly 15% to hit on the turn and 30% to hit by the river. That is because there are less cards to actually hit. You have 5 outs going towards the river. Sets are the opposite, its easier to hit a set in short deck then in  hold'em , roughly 13% of the time you can expect to flop a set....

  Best tournament of the year. So i was not planning to play a big tournament but there it was, the 75€ zodiac festival shortdeck bounty. How can i ever resist that, the tournament started off like hell, i lost an all in from a JT6 flop with JT vs KQ and then lost another 2 buy ins against hands i dont even remember anymore. Here we go, buy in number 4... thats 300€ down the drain so far but the prize pool was too juicy to ignore. After playing tight for a while i flop a flush versus a massive 120€ bounty loose losing player, i bet the flop and turn, i see the river and think this is a nice spot for an overbet shove, opponent tanks for ages and makes the call, cool. 120€ heading my way, we dont feel so bad about 300€ in buy ins anymore. The rest of the tournament went pretty damn chill, everyone played super tight which is very unusal for a shortdeck bounty so we just took down small pots all the way to heads up, nothing special , no bounties, no big all ins just a boring style of ...

  Needed a mental break from cash games and loaded up some tournaments, the only ones availible were a little over my bankroll, buts it is fine i am pretty over bankrolled for my regular nl5 games anyway. Started the day off with the 31.50$ Short deck bounty, managed to grab a few bounties and finish a dissapointing 3rd AQo vs AJs, both opponents were losing players so a hold would have been nice but thats the game i guess. After the 31.50 there was only the 21$ short deck bounty running so i guess we are in. Started off pretty bad losing AK vs AQ for a buy in, but hey its shortdeck, it happens. Reg again and go, first hand AA and an all in infront of me, he has KK. Flop comes TT8, im happy, and then the turn... a K, oh well guess we are out again. Third buy in i see QQ,  shove against 3 limps and run into AK. This was getting expensive buy hey, nothing better running so back to it. Like always 4th times the charm, get dealt T9s and i see 3 all ins, easy call to be honest and ...