Wheel's falling off!

stragf · #1 02-05-2006, 10:02 PM

I'm leaving in 3 weeks for the WSOP in Europe. I qualified online.
I am feeling like a fish out of water. I've been playing lots of online tourneys, anywhere for $1 MTT to $20 MTT for practice. My god, I am feeling like I've never played before. No rhythm,flow, nothing.

I'm making bad bets in bad positions, and not having confidence in position.
OK Thanks for letting me rant. Please comment on the following 3 hands. I think observation on these might help to tune me up.

Hand 1.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (10 handed) internettexasholdem.com

MP2 (t930)
MP3 (t1255)
CO (t875)
Button (t860)
SB (t1830)
Hero (t1000)
UTG (t915)
UTG+1 (t2475)
UTG+2 (t925)
MP1 (t965)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
1 fold, UTG+1 calls t20, 6 folds, SB completes, Hero raises to t100, UTG+1 calls t80, SB calls t80.

Flop: (t300) 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t300, UTG+1 folds, SB calls t300.

Turn: (t900) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero?

Hand 2

Hand Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (9 handed) internettexasholdem.com

UTG+1 (t1675)
MP1 (t3153)
MP2 (t1197)
MP3 (t1110)
CO (t2700)
Hero (t1945)
SB (t1745)
BB (t2265)
UTG (t1350)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
6 folds, CO calls t50, Hero raises to t100, 1 fold, CO calls t50.

Flop: (t275) 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
CO bets t95.

Hero?

Hand 3

#Game No : 3502122605
***** Hand History for Game 3502122605 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:19900018 Level:1 Blinds (10/15) - Sunday, February 05, 20:46:26 ET 2006
Table Multi Table(588981) Table #82 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: BM175 ( $1345 )
Seat 2: Mr_T ( $975 )
Seat 3: jay_bellagio ( $975 )
Seat 4: ndolanosu ( $895 )
Seat 5: brawler555 ( $1125 )
Seat 6: nis1965 ( $1070 )
Seat 7: Rview487 ( $985 )
Seat 8: wonderblazer ( $835 )
Seat 9: hoppy125 ( $770 )
Seat 10: mushmouth11 ( $985 )
Trny:19900018 Level:1
Blinds (10/15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Rview487 [ Jc Kc ]
wonderblazer folds.
hoppy125 calls [15].
mushmouth11 folds.
BM175 calls [15].
Mr_T folds.
jay_bellagio folds.
ndolanosu folds.
brawler555 calls [15].
nis1965 calls [5].
Rview487 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, 9s, 8c ]
nis1965 checks.
Rview487 checks.
hoppy125 folds.
BM175 bets [15].
brawler555 folds.
nis1965 calls [15].
Rview487 calls [15].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7h ]
nis1965 checks.
Rview487 bets [200].
BM175 raises [400].

Hero?

One more?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (10 handed) internettexasholdem.com

UTG+1 (t1055)
UTG+2 (t460)
MP1 (t1142)
MP2 (t1980)
MP3 (t1470)
Hero (t2170)
Button (t2648)
SB (t965)
BB (t2240)
UTG (t725)

Preflop: Hero is CO with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
2 folds, UTG+2 raises to t50, 1 fold, MP2 calls t50, 1 fold, Hero calls t50, 2 folds, BB calls t30.

Flop: (t210) J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (4 players)
BB bets t35, UTG+2 calls t35, MP2 raises to t150, Hero calls t150, BB calls t115, UTG+2 calls t115.

Turn: (t810) K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (4 players)
BB checks, MP2 calls t260.

Hero?