New Years Resolution: Don't Bluff

Avid readers will know (I don't have avid readers yet, nor am I likely to in the future. Indead, I'm not sure I have any readers at all, let alone ones doing it with enthusiasm. Hmm, this digression is depressing me. Where was I going with this? OK, enough introspection - back to the sentence) that bluffing is a foolish endeavour in small buy-in tournaments, and that I've told myself repeatedly to stop doing it.

But I just couldn't help myself:

***** Hand History for Game 3323403276 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:18941962 Level:2 Blinds (10/20) - Friday, January 06, 05:51:09 EDT 2006
Table Shootout(561698) Round(1) Table #7 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Dihxm ( $980 )
Seat 2: Ching0Ching ( $990 )
Seat 3: gAnGmEmBaJ ( $1040 )
Seat 4: dankjordan ( $800 )
Seat 5: Smile_1 ( $930 )
Seat 6: vish22 ( $1395 )
Seat 7: evser ( $980 )
Seat 8: mangosj ( $735 )
Seat 9: stutzy74 ( $1190 )
Seat 10: oldwombat ( $960 )
Trny:18941962 Level:2
Blinds (10/20)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Ching0Ching [ 3s 5c ]
gAnGmEmBaJ calls [20].
dankjordan folds.
Smile_1 folds.
vish22 folds.
evser folds.
mangosj calls [20].
stutzy74 calls [20].
oldwombat calls [20].
Dihxm calls [10].
Ching0Ching raises [130].
gAnGmEmBaJ calls [130].
mangosj calls [130].
stutzy74 folds.
oldwombat folds.
Dihxm folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ks, 2s, 8h ]
Ching0Ching bets [400].
gAnGmEmBaJ calls [400].
mangosj folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jd ]
Ching0Ching checks.
gAnGmEmBaJ checks.
** Dealing River ** [ Qd ]
Ching0Ching is all-In [440]
gAnGmEmBaJ folds.
Ching0Ching shows [ 3s, 5c ] high card king.
Ching0Ching wins 1750 chips from the main pot with high card king.


No, I'm not a maniac - the above is uncharacteristic for me - I was just bored and sick of 20 people limping into every pot.

As it happened, I managed to get to the final table in the above tournament. I came first at my table for the first three shoot-outs rounds on the way to being about 4th in chips at the final table. Once there, I ran into some big hands while on the steal, and with the blinds being so big, this cost me dearly. Anyway, I came in 6th and made about $50 on the tournament so it could have been worse (it was only a $5 buy-in, which means the standard is so appalling it is usually too psychologically painful to bother playing - but i just love shoot-outs).