Winnah!!!

You have to go have a thick skin to take the tons of  bad beats, especially late in tournaments, that we all do playing tourneys.  But it's finally great to close one out.  I'll do a write up tomorrow of some of the key hands, but must say this does feel great!  

Thanks again to all the blogger brethren who stopped by to rail.....especially to LJ, who I asked to come give me some of her good vibes, which she did, and the rest was a piece of cake!  

I was also playing in Rambler's series, and somehow manage to luckbox to a 2nd place finish.

All in all, a great night!  

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Sunday Tournaments

Played a whole bunch of tournys today, and all in all, it was a profitable day. Started with a nice deep run in the 14.5K knockout. I had about 4 scalps to go along with cashing:

I busted out short of the cash in the 750K, as I tilted away a 9k stack, when I re-raised out of the BB with AK, only to be called by jerk in the HJ with A-rag....rag hit, and next hand I had some 2 broadway cards which I shoved and ran into aces.

I also ran good in the 9K rebuy, where I made the final table.

I unfortunately tried to steal the blinds with J2, and ran into Kings. Still not a bad profit on about a 30 dollar investment. LJ also had a deep run in this tourny, although I don't recall how she busted.

One of the funny things about this tournament, is how some guy chased me around from table to table, offering a bounty to anyone who would felt me. I busted his Aces with KQ, and he was pretty ticked off. Here's the 'donkish' hand:

To be perfectly honest, not that this guy would ever buy any excuse, I was multi-tabling 5 or 6 tables, and all I recall was seeing that Ragthyme had raised for the upteenth time, and didn't even see that this guy had re-raised. Happens to all of us, and it happen to work out. But certainly, it was the first time I've tilted some guy, that I know of, for the entire evening!

Rambler stop by towards the end of the tourney, and offered his well wishes, which is always appreciated. Tomorrow evening his tournament series continues, see the link on the side bar for the details.

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Close but not cigar....

That is all....

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I Took 2nd

Cuz it wasn't Thursday!

I played against this Donk for the title:

We played about 40-50 hands, and were about dead even....when I lost my internet connection.  There are players out there, that when in a heads up tournament, are decent enough to 'sit out', until you reconnect.  

This deuchbag of course attacked by blinds, so by the time I reconnected, I had lost 1/3 of my stack.  This unfortunately tilted me, and I frankly gave the game away.  I was pretty pissed at myself.....

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Pokerstars Blogger tournament

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This PokerStars tournament is a No Limit Texas Hold’em event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 570056

Mookie Win #2 Recap

If it's Wednesday night, it's Mookie Time!

I was able to pick up a pretty good pot on the first hand last night, which put me out in front with about 5k. 

I pretty much stayed there until half way through the tournament.  I then got a double up when I flopped a set of 9's, cracking HOP's cowboys and held on the River

I chipped up a little bit, and then had this hand against Numbono to take the chip lead:

Right before the final table, I lost a pretty good pot:

Which made me one of the short stacks at the final table.  Dr J and Waffles had the big stacks.  I got involve in this pot, where the aforementioned Waffles 'warned' me about not bluffing into a dry pot on the river............

6 handed I was the shorty and had to ship JT into Waffles BB....got lucky here:

5 handed I got rockets to cripple VBPro:

4 Handed...I raised Dr J, and he came back over the top:

Final 4 had fairly even stacks, until this hand, where I coolered Breeze:

3 handed I busted Dr J having to fade some spades on the river:

I then leaned on Waffles until he defended, and that was that:

GG to everyone!

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8k Rebuy

Nice to hit a final table in a > 45 man MTT.  I've been playing this and the 9k for the last month, trying to get into more deep stack situations,  which is always the case post the rebuy period.   

The quality of players is better at the higher rebuy events, but this makes for good practice, although you need to be prepared to take some ridiculous beats.  And to final table is always a nice bonus....winning would have been even better!  

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