There is an interesting lesson that I had to learn early in my online poker journey. There is a simple fact that when you are a cash game player, your losses matter more than your wins. This is just the way it is.
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Thanks everybody who came out to play tonight! Here are the results:

1.) ICloneChips
2.) 4_everrr
3.) Huckleberry1

Congratulations to ICloneChips for winning tonights tourney!

We’ll be having another iRockPoker tournament this Sunday 9/2 at 7:30 PM EST. Here are the details:

When: Sunday, 9/2
Time: 7:30 PM EST
Name: irockpoker
Password: irock
Type: 6 max
Buy-in: $5

Hope to see you all there!

Being almost exclusively an online player, I hardly ever dabble in deep stack situations. When I am talking deep stack situations, I am going to be referring to stacks of at least 200 big blinds per person involved. There are times when you and another player have built up stacks on a table and you will make a choice rather to play deep or leave. If your deep stack play is lacking, you might be forced to pass up a mediocre player with a lot of money in front of them. Also, a lot of live games over 5/10 NL are uncapped buy ins that I have encountered, so you will want to be able to play those if they are soft as well.

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The first event I played this year was Event #31 the heads up tournament for 5k. I was really excited about this because I have really been playing well as of late and heads up is my favorite form of NL Hold’em. I was lucky enough to get a bye in round 1 so I was set to come back for round 2. The tournament was run pretty horribly, so instead of a noon start, they had a 1:30 start. The tournament reminded me of one of those NFL Blooper videos but replace the players with tournament directors. Enough about that though I was set to play at 5pm.

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