Lesson number one in TPP

Here is the situation. I'm in a token race and Newinnov is to my left, he just took a hefty hit on a less then spectacular hand and this is what I wake up to. Now the object here is simply to finish 5th place or better so why would you make this call King Tommy? Well here is my thinking.

1. I'm behind probably to at least one pair.
2. I'm behind probably at least one high pair.
3. I've got s00ted semi connected cards which can result in the best flush of all.
4. I probably will lose which will send me packing pretty much.
5. If I do suck out and win, I will be set for the tournament more then likely. (I think some people call this implied odds)
6. Boys and girls in trailer parks everywhere need a hero and I'm him! Do it for them! You can WIN!

Well, I lost. LOL But I did catch two spades on the flop ;) Bet he was sweatin that shit!
So ends lesson number one in Trailer Park Poker. Always pay attention to the size of the pot when you have sucakalicious hands.

Take care, T2T

HAHA Trailer Park Poker!!

YES! I am the man, I have created a new term for the blogging community! Trailer Park Poker lol! WOOOT! Now all I have to do is fully document this new found style of poker for the world to recognize the value of TPP. OH YES! A trippin new acronym too lol! WILD! I am the man, bow down now, yes, you have realized it for yourself. I'll provide you with some words to say, a prayer if you will, to the lord of Trailer Park Poker to perhaps grant you the great fortune of sharing a few words with the Master of TPP himself!

T0mmy2T0ne, you are my daddy, you are my Trailer Park Poppa and I come to you for advice into all things poker! T0mmy2T0ne, will you please take some time out of your hectic schedule to advise me in all things poker? Can you bring me into your circle and share with me the wisdom of... Trailer Park Poker? Please T0mmy2T0ne, I am tired of the high limit successful ultraLAG cash games of the semi cool guys. I want to know how to stumble, bumble, and apply maximum pressure upon my opponents in no limit online tournament poker. Will you my gracious lord bestow upon me all the secrets you hold to Trailer Park Poker sir? Amen!

Lol, YES! I knew there was a reason I started this blogging thing. I am like my own personal pokah god here! BOW before me mortals! I am T0mmy2T0ne, I am the king of trailer park poker! You heard it here first, trailer park poker is where its at! Be wise and join with me now, come over to the dark side!

T0mmy2T0ne Pokah

So I figured I'd try and share some of why my game has such a huge variance. This is a typical hand I play when I'm like position 12 of 65 when the money is 53 of a mtt. Enjoy the laugh ;)

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t25/t50
9 players
Converter


Stack sizes:
UTG: t1820
UTG+1: t1955
MP1: t2900
MP2: t2015
MP3: t1325
CO: t2060
T0mmy2T0ne: t1775
SB: t1960
BB: t1165


Pre-flop: (9 players) T0mmy2T0ne is Button with :kh :as
UTG calls t50 (pot was t75), UTG+1 calls t50 (pot was t125), MP1 folds, MP2 calls t50 (pot was t175), MP3 calls t50 (pot was t225), CO folds, T0mmy2T0ne raises to t200, 3 folds, UTG+1 calls t150 (pot was t475), MP2 calls t150 (pot was t625), MP3 calls t150 (pot was t775).


Flop: :jc :td :7d (t925, 4 players)
UTG+1 checks, MP2 bets t200, MP3 raises to t400, T0mmy2T0ne raises all-in t1575, 2 folds, MP3 calls all-in t725.
Uncalled bets: t450 returned to T0mmy2T0ne.


Turn: :qs (t2450, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: t3375)



River: :ad (t2450, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: t3375)




Results:
Final pot: t2450

**** Tourney Revisited ***

This hand while insignificant as it may seem was the turning point of the tournament for me. I was able to sit back, pick and choose my battles until in the end, there could be only one. And it was me. I am not sure about all the various odds in poker, I understand them and recognize the value of determining them, but honestly I like to use my instinct to evaluate the value of a hand. Perhaps this is my mistake in poker, but in my opinion, if I get this instinct honed effectively it will be a much more powerful weapon then learning the ins and outs of the math. Don't get me wrong, I do figure simple pot odds and the rule of 2 and 4, but there are plenty of times when these rules simply could never justify making what I consider to be tournament winning decisions. I've never won a big tournament over say 200 players where I went into every hand ahead. NEVER.. Have you? Oh, I guess I must qualify this further by saying that I have won more then one MTT =P, I just can't seem to win more then 3 :)

Take care!

T2T

Settling In

Well, I've just about gotten this place set up all cozy like and all. I've been somewhat killin it at poker of late. NOT! I was on this rampage where I was stealing all kinds of money off the poker bloggers thru the weekly online home games. I was killing it at stars on their low limit rebuy tourneys for 5 and 3 dollars. Then I ran into a 5 dollar rebuy and just went nuts, I killed my roll there but had won entry into the weekly million tourney. Needless to say I lasted all of 20 minutes. So stupid, can you say pocket 8's with a ten on the board? Ohh.. Kayyy. Nice one Tommy. Knew I should have just cashed out that entry for tourney dollars. Oh well.

So I head back to full tilt and have just been getting abused there too. I've lost every token race I've gotten into like 6 in a row, I've not made a cash in any mtt I've been in for a week and I'm suckin hind teat. I've managed to win a sng and cash in another to keep my bankroll entact but damn this shit is starting to piss me off. I mean I realize my style of poker does lend itself to some big variance, but I cannot learn a new style. I do try to learn from my mistakes, I like to try and come here to discuss them. For instance, last night I was in a 5 dollah tourney on ft and was doing great, I was 12 of 65. Somehow I go out in 63 when cash was at 54. I mean, really. Do I need to explain my hand selection to you, for you to realize that I'm just a dumbass sometimes? All I had to do was sit there and fold everything till I got Jacks or better and play them cautiously. Instead I go trying to play some hands out, chase some VERY good draws with 15+ outs only to relieve myself of 5 bucks so close to making a couple. Very frustrating. I know you've felt the same way, its my understanding that we all have.

Whether or not I will be able to continue on and make that mark I so desperately want to make is beyond me. I am to the point of saying to hell with it all, but fuck it, I'll keep on keeping on. And I've now gotten a new place to blog bout it, so thats somewhat cool. I have some crazy plans for the next year, hopefully will make them all come about. Will have fun trying to get there!

T0mmy2T0ne Does Blogger!

Perhaps we've met in the past online while I talked some smack on yer table, sucked out on the chip leader, tilted off his big stack. But I'm here again to purvey my voice upon this here internet. I apologize for my abandonment of the uberly prolific tommy2tone.net, but honestly folks, between, figuring out how to do all the web shit I was making it do, ie gallery, wordpress, themes, it was more trouble then I felt like was worth my time. So here I am. Tommy2tone is back at it here at blogger.

I will try to figure out neato cool ways to make this page phat and shit, but it will be my new poker site. I guess I could re-up my wordpress site to transfer some posts and all but I figure why bother. I sucked then, I suck now, so why not just continue my journey into online poker in a manner which is 8 bucks a month cheaper lol. And I bet I can pimp this shit out better then t2t.net anyways! WHEE!!! Anyways guys and girls, I know that I probably never had anyone actually concerned with reading what I had to say bout poker, but if I did, I do apologize for tearin down the fortress of solitude I once had known to you as tommy2tone.net. Still the same guy though, still sucking ass at poker, still with all the grand dreams of moving to that higher level.

So, if you wish to stay, stay! Welcome to the pages of one Tommy2Tone! Prophesy for short if yer at hangin out at Full Tilt... Coming soon to a table near you!