No Follow Up
After online success last week, this midweek session produced very little of note. I played my standard batch of 5 tournaments, and busted from all of them out of the money.
The $10 PS/$24FT/$55FT were all fairly uneventful and hardly worth blogging. Just a combination of lack of cards, and being cold decked a couple of times, resulted in me exiting the tournaments early on.
The $163 FT event was going reasonably after the first break, when I raised pre-flop with Aces attracting two callers. By the time one of my opponents check-raised me all in on the turn, on a low flop, I had committed about 60% of my stack and felt obliged to call. I was fairly certain he had a set (which he did), but due to the flop there was enough chance someone was getting carried away with JJ or TT to justify the call. My opponent had flopped a set of 4s and I was gone.
The $55 PS event had a more explosive start. At the first break I was sitting in 3rd position with 18k in my stack (from a 3k start). A fair whack of this came from limping on the button with and flopping a rather pleasing 3,6,7 rainbow for the nuts. The UTG limper in the hand then went potty with his “disguised” pocket Aces and we got it all in on the flop, with him drawing very thin indeed. After the break I lost a crucial pot - mid position raised to 450, I make it 1100 with AK and the big blind shoves it in for 6k. The early raiser calls for his last 5k or so. I decide to gamble that they have stepped slightly out of line, because I still will have 12k behind if I lose this 17k pot. It turns out to be a good call, as I am against AQ and JJ, but the Jacks unfortunately hold for a monster pot. Despite being way above average, I never really regain my momentum, and end up busting about 40 short of the money. I had 12k remaining at the time, which was starting to look short, but still a meaningful hit to the bigger stacks. Unfortunately, when I picked a spot to re-steal, the big blind woke up with AK and picked me off.
Time is now running short on my challenge, and I look unlikely to meet my target. As a result, I’ve decided to play a small schedule of Sunday tournaments this week to try and get things back on track. I’ll play the Sunday Million and Sunday Warm-up on Stars, the Brawl on Full Tilt, and the crypto 40k guaranteed. I’ll report on progress next week. I’ll be interested to see the difference in standard between these and my standard tournaments (you must remember it has been a long time since I’ve played a Sunday). All the big guns will be out to play no doubt.
Also, my month in Elba is almost at a close, so I will be returning to live action a week today (Thursday) and it will be interesting to see if my style changes after so many hours online. I’ll be down at the Loose Cannon for the £50 league night - don’t everybody cheer at once ;)