All In Strategy

Down to $2.59, I decided to play the ring games and joined an $0.05/$0.10 9-player table. I waited for the blinds to come around and then patiently waited on a good hand. After losing a few blinds, and a couple small hands, I got a pair of tens. I bet out with $0.20 which was raised to $0.30. When it came back around to me, I raised to $1.00 to weed out the 4 players that were in at the time (and it worked - 2 folded). But then one of the players re-raised and put me all-in. I called.

I was sitting pretty good before the flop, two tens against two nines. The flop came and he picked up a set of nines. The turn and river gave me no good cards, and I was out of money.

The experiment was a good idea, but unfortunately I didn’t play as strictly as I should have, and once I got below $5 I don’t think there was much hope. I’m going to make a deposit and see if I can repeat the experiment with a different outcome.