Today was almost the standard fail Sunday but I got lucky and one tabled my way to a PCA Ladies package 🙂 The tournament is only $1,100, but it’s worth $3.4k mostly because of the outrageously priced accommodations. I get $700 for my flight (which will barely cover it).
Words cannot describe how badly women play in these satellites. It’s actually mind boggling. At one point the chip leader in the tournament kept getting lucky against me and I lost my temper. I said something like, “LOL. I just can’t beat you, you keep winning against me in the most idiotic ways” in the chat. I instantly regretted it and then felt even stupider when she was so nice to me about it, lol. I’m ashamed that I lost my cool like that. I can blame it on the fact that I had a terrible day of tournaments and I was sick of one tabling, but blah blah blah. Fail.
Think of the weakest players in any standard low stakes tournament on PokerStars and then multiply that by almost the entire field. That is what it is like to play in these satellites. They’re $215 buyins but most of them satellite into the $215 via qualifiers that start at $2.20. They’re so soft. But then of course they’re going to be high variance, especially when they pay ~5% of the field (4 of us won packages out of 70 entrants). They’re really frustrating and not fun at all. The first two I tried really pissed me off, lol. I feel lucky to have won the package after 3 attempts. I do think I played well, though. I was short stacked for a lot of it once we got deep, and I chose my spots very carefully.
Good thing my luck box is working at the moment.
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