Short Stacking

A very brief update as I’m feeling a bit uninspired today. I seemed to spend the entire tournament short stacked at LC’s £50 League night yesterday, and must have been all in about ten times during the course of the evening.

I picked my spots well, but the end had to come eventually. With 6 players remaining, and blinds at 300-600 Sonny min-raises blind UTG to 1200. I decide to shove in for my 3.5k stack with T8 off, as he’s folding half of his potential holdings here, despite having a big stack. Unfortunately I get looked up by someone on the button holding AJ and that was that.

The cash game was enjoyable - I played a couple of fun pots with McDee, one where he got me off a paired Ace with pocket 4s, and the other where I got a fold from him when I re-raised the river with Ace high. I registered a £200 win for the night, so my cash game is ticking along nicely at the moment. It would have been a lot more, but I rashly put Honest Dave all in holding AK on an A, 6, 9 board. He gleefully called with a set of 6s, and I think I lost £200 in that pot. I’m considering stepping around him at the cash table at the moment, as he seems to be on a real heater.

I’m going to get an early night tonight ahead of FTOPs tomorrow, although this may not be possible as I’m dog-sitting my mum’s loud, deaf 98 year old dog who is affectionately known as “Death”. He picked up this nickname from Shazbo, as she is certain his insides have long since rotted away judging by the various aromas which are periodically emitted from the beast.