Thursday night tournament rounds
Hadn't played any serious online tournament poker in a while (i.e. a full night of nothing but tournaments). And one of my poker resolutions for the year is to focus a lot more on the many large-field MTTs where I feel my game is the sharpest. So I made it a point to hit the Full Tilt $15k Guaranteed and the $40k Guaranteed on Party tonight, as well as grinding through a bundle of SNGs in the background.
I was in great shape in the Full Tilt $15k Guaranteed, ran through about half the field, got my money in the middle preflop in a three-way battle holding KK against A9o and 88, and didn't make it out of that hand alive. Had I 3x'd up there I would have been in great shape to make a deep run, I felt. Before i got bounced I stopped by the TV table to say "hi" to Drizz who was also in the tournament and appeared to be doing a good job running over his table at the time. He was a little more than double the average when I busted, so I'm hoping he finished strong.
I finished pretty well in the Party $40k, with yet another cash there at 109th place for double my entry fee. I was 7th in chips with approximately 400 people remaining (top 220 paid) but ran in to three different full houses between there and bursting the bubble for the money (allowing two of the three to double through me) and entered the money about 10% above average with around T11k. Donked off more chips with some sub-par plays and some laggy plays, and ended up hanging around half the average with around T8k - T9k for most of the 500/1000 and 750/1500 blind levels. Ended up getting my money in the middle with AKo, against 44 and AJo, in great shape to tripple up and catch some serious breathing room. It was not meant to be as I ended up having the third best hand of the bunch when the AJax caught a jack on the flop and I didn't improve at all. For playing sleep-deprived laggy donkey poker, I'm still ok with taking it this far for the cash.
Did OK but not great in the SNGs in the background while playing the two tournaments. I've been on a SNG downswing for the past several weeks, just can't seem to convert. Delivered 30% ITM for the night with ten played, but just not enough firsts or seconds to be profitable. Best SNG finish of the night was a second place in a Full Tilt $30+3, where I came in to heads up as a 2-1 dog, came back to take the chip lead briefly, but wasn't able to close it out, thanks to pushing top pair top kicker in to my opponent's made nut flush. I thought i was doing a good job representing the flush draw all along and then made the move at the pot when the flush card hit the river, thinking even if he did call my TPTK had a high probability of being the best hand because I really didn't put him on a flush the way he played it.
I think I'm a little out of practice - its been fun jamming around on Full Tilt's Razz tables and their 9-person 1500 chip SNGs for the past month or so, but its certainly allowed my finely-honed 800-chip Party SNG skills to acquire a little bit of rust. And its hurt the few forrays i've made into 1000-chip land. Oh well - more poker this weekend I'm sure. NFL picks tomorrow, hopefully by noon.
One more thing: I threw a Free Ipod MP3 Player link up in the adversiting section. I hate to spam people with this kind of stuff, but this deal is actually legit (two of my co-workers have recieved free stuff through this company by completing their offer, one of the coworkers actually getting both a free iPod and a free monitor by completing two similar but separate offers from the same company). Anyways, I have an iPod mini but really want a larger iPod. I signed up for the free iPods deal a while back and completed my portion of the offer, but never got enough signups under me to qualify for my free product, so I figured I'd pimp it here for a little bit and see if I could get the remaining few signups I need to qualify.
If you're not familiar with the offer, this company gets paid by various service providors to sign people up for their services. they make enough money signing you up in referral fees that they can pay out these free iPods. It is completely legit, but here's the exact deal: you have to sign up, complete one of their offers (for example, when I did it I signed up for a free trial of AOL HighSpeed, which I just had to call and cancel during the trial period so it didn't cost me anything but a few minutes of my time), and then get five people to sign up under you AND they have to complete an offer too. Then you get a free iPod. So anyways, if you want a shiny new iPod to listen to while you're grinding away at the poker tables, consider signing up for a Free Ipod MP3 Player through my link there.
I was in great shape in the Full Tilt $15k Guaranteed, ran through about half the field, got my money in the middle preflop in a three-way battle holding KK against A9o and 88, and didn't make it out of that hand alive. Had I 3x'd up there I would have been in great shape to make a deep run, I felt. Before i got bounced I stopped by the TV table to say "hi" to Drizz who was also in the tournament and appeared to be doing a good job running over his table at the time. He was a little more than double the average when I busted, so I'm hoping he finished strong.
I finished pretty well in the Party $40k, with yet another cash there at 109th place for double my entry fee. I was 7th in chips with approximately 400 people remaining (top 220 paid) but ran in to three different full houses between there and bursting the bubble for the money (allowing two of the three to double through me) and entered the money about 10% above average with around T11k. Donked off more chips with some sub-par plays and some laggy plays, and ended up hanging around half the average with around T8k - T9k for most of the 500/1000 and 750/1500 blind levels. Ended up getting my money in the middle with AKo, against 44 and AJo, in great shape to tripple up and catch some serious breathing room. It was not meant to be as I ended up having the third best hand of the bunch when the AJax caught a jack on the flop and I didn't improve at all. For playing sleep-deprived laggy donkey poker, I'm still ok with taking it this far for the cash.
Did OK but not great in the SNGs in the background while playing the two tournaments. I've been on a SNG downswing for the past several weeks, just can't seem to convert. Delivered 30% ITM for the night with ten played, but just not enough firsts or seconds to be profitable. Best SNG finish of the night was a second place in a Full Tilt $30+3, where I came in to heads up as a 2-1 dog, came back to take the chip lead briefly, but wasn't able to close it out, thanks to pushing top pair top kicker in to my opponent's made nut flush. I thought i was doing a good job representing the flush draw all along and then made the move at the pot when the flush card hit the river, thinking even if he did call my TPTK had a high probability of being the best hand because I really didn't put him on a flush the way he played it.
I think I'm a little out of practice - its been fun jamming around on Full Tilt's Razz tables and their 9-person 1500 chip SNGs for the past month or so, but its certainly allowed my finely-honed 800-chip Party SNG skills to acquire a little bit of rust. And its hurt the few forrays i've made into 1000-chip land. Oh well - more poker this weekend I'm sure. NFL picks tomorrow, hopefully by noon.
One more thing: I threw a Free Ipod MP3 Player link up in the adversiting section. I hate to spam people with this kind of stuff, but this deal is actually legit (two of my co-workers have recieved free stuff through this company by completing their offer, one of the coworkers actually getting both a free iPod and a free monitor by completing two similar but separate offers from the same company). Anyways, I have an iPod mini but really want a larger iPod. I signed up for the free iPods deal a while back and completed my portion of the offer, but never got enough signups under me to qualify for my free product, so I figured I'd pimp it here for a little bit and see if I could get the remaining few signups I need to qualify.
If you're not familiar with the offer, this company gets paid by various service providors to sign people up for their services. they make enough money signing you up in referral fees that they can pay out these free iPods. It is completely legit, but here's the exact deal: you have to sign up, complete one of their offers (for example, when I did it I signed up for a free trial of AOL HighSpeed, which I just had to call and cancel during the trial period so it didn't cost me anything but a few minutes of my time), and then get five people to sign up under you AND they have to complete an offer too. Then you get a free iPod. So anyways, if you want a shiny new iPod to listen to while you're grinding away at the poker tables, consider signing up for a Free Ipod MP3 Player through my link there.
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