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I started playing again on Wednesday night starting with a few MTTs, I had set my alarm to get up in time for the freerolls as I thought I might get a result in one of these as they are usually good value; however, it was not to be.
I did though get a good run in one of the MTTs, it was $5 and $6k gtd with 1400 runners or so. I was going ok for a long time but when it came down to the business end, I couldn't get a hand. I think I was knocked out in 40th or so for about $32 but I can't really remember as I had this all written down and my laptop crashed so I lost my first draft :(
Not a bad result but still first place was $1500 and how sweet that would be at this stage. I have only played a few MTTs but I seem to be doing rather well, but then again not getting the big score. My exit hand was one I could have avoided I think, but I am not sure if I made the right play. I had 53k and UTG +1 had 48k, blinds were 2.5k/5k at this stage and I hadn't seen a hand in a few orbits so I was just staying afloat by stealing when I got the opportunity.
Anyway, he shoves and it's up to me and I have AQ, obviously I called but I have been thinking it is a pretty close one, even though with less than 10 BB his range is pretty wide so maybe I made the right call, anyway he had AK and I am busto - all that work for minimal reward.
After this, my total was about $350 or so and I decided to play a few STTs, they had been going ok but I bubbled a few in a row and it tilted me slightly. Then I made a big mistake, I opened up about six cash tables and a few STTs at once and got off to a bad start on the cash getting rivered a few times, so I went on tilt again and this cost me about four buy-ins at 10c/20c which is $80. I got my act together, left the cash and went back to just the STTs.
I got back some of my cash loses and ended the night on about $300, all in all not a great day as I was down a little but that was due to tilting which I am trying to avoid like the plague.
Thursday, I got out of bed just in time to go to the cinema with my mate to see Slumdog Millionaire (great show btw and would recommend as a must see, Freida Pinto "Litaka" is a very good added bonus, absolutely amazing). Anyway, back to poker and I decide to just focus on STTs tonight hoping to play $5 and $10 as at this time it seems to be hard to get enough $10 ones to play. I was running pretty good even though I had AA all in on level 1 busted by KK but that's standard, and getting a lot of cashes. I met TheDrunkenOne who is a regular commenter here, so I will say hello to him and nice playing with you.
I was up to over $400 and was starting to feel good so I took a little break and when I returned I decided to open up a good few tables for my last session of the night. I busted from the first few but I had a built a few nice stacks in the rest, I have been playing more patiently now in these and think its working to my benefit. I counted eight races in a row I lost coming near the end of these, seven were straight race and one was KJ v my QQ, but because I was well chipped up in these it gave me the chance to recover from this.
I ended up winning five out of the last seven that I played which really boosted my roll and left me feeling a lot better about the whole situation, it took my balance to close to $520 I went to bed but couldn't sleep so I fired up five more STTs for $10, and quickly busted out of four of them. I was starting to quickly regret playing them, so I had to try to win the last one to try to make a bit of a recover for the short session which I managed to do and it keeps my roll over the $500 mark.
Total Balance now stands at $506.97 :)
My sharkscope graph is starting to look very healthy indeed with a nice upward curve, long may it continue!
Comments (10)
Day 1 Pete at the 1st table on right as you come in the door. I was in seat 4 I believe and I think u were in seat 8 or 9. I had a cast on my left arm. I can only remember a couple of hands with you, 1 of which you doubled me up. My 1010 held up against your 99 :-) It was my 1st big tourney and I really enjoyed the experience. Unfortunatly I ran my QQ into a set of 9's on a 9 high flop early on day 2 and that was it. I didn't know anything about you at the time but I could see after a short time at the table you were the one to steer clear of. I picked up something from you that I use with good effect. Don't want to say what it is though. Good luck with the challenge.