Battle of the Bloggers Tournament

You may notice that in the sidebar of this blog, there is a little Battle of the Bloggers badge. This is because I have been playing in the BBT for the past few weeks. This blog got noticed by someone at Full Tilt and I got an invite to play in this series of freerolls, and, being the degenerate edgemonger that I am and salivating over the prospect of like $7 of equity, I've been playing in them almost every week. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to play tournaments and I haven't cashed a single one of them. But hopefully I can luckbox at least a few free dollars out of this before it's over, and maybe get some new readers for my blog.

However, I did manage to bink the $5.50 NLHE tournament in the Goon Series of Poker a couple of weeks ago - ship the $40. I ran really good at every crucial stage of the tournament and don't at all feel like I ever outplayed anyone the entire way and was generally clueless like I am in every tournament. Sometimes a monumental run of cards is all it takes.

I've given some serious consideration to switching from cash games to tournaments, largely based on the reasoning that tournaments attract more fish and are better propositions for a strong player in the long run even though they are much higher variance. I still have a few hundred Gold Chips and some Gold Cards left on Cake and I've been thinking about using them to play satellites and freerolls to learn tournaments. But I think that, at least for the time being, I am going to keep my primary focus on cash games. I feel like there are still a lot of things that I want to prove to myself in the cash game arena before tackling MTTs.