Those Damn Ladies!

I tried to follow up my recent success in Fulltilt's MTT by entering Tuesday's afternoon $50+5. I played good poker for about 2 hours and we got down to 10 people. Top 7 made the money...I was around 4th or 5th place and there were a couple of really low stacks.

Rather than playing it safe, I was playing to win. I ended up tangling with someone more money than me when my AK ran up against QQ. That's two days in a row that those damn ladies have been my downfall. Oh well, live and learn!

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The Bridesmaid

I ended up the bridesmaid in Fulltilt's $50 tournament on Monday afternoon. Only 62 people entered this tournament, but among them was Pro player Steve Brecher. I have never heard of the guy before but he has supposedly won over $350K this year alone. Although it was nice to cash for $651, it wasn't nearly as satisfying as cashing for less when I finished first a couple of days ago. I was actually pretty disappointed with my final table play. I managed to build a nice lead going into the final table, but made some really suspect and bonehead moves.

Luckiest hand of the tourney: Down to 3 handed; I have slightly more than the low stack (teach2121). I hold 9-8 in the SB and limp in. Flop comes down QJ10 and I fall in love with my open ended straight draw. I semi-bluff the pot and get reraised. Rather than throw my hand away like I should have, I reraised my opponent all in. He thought for a second before calling and turning over QQ for the set. The turn brings a 9 and the river saves me with a K for the straight on the board and a split pot. That King on the river was worth $200 to me as that was the difference in prize money between 3rd and 2nd.

Unluckiest hand of the tourney: My Jacks running up against Steve's Queens. We got it all in preflop and no helps come. I lose my chip lead and give chips to the wrong person at the table.

Items of note: Lothian again played well and finish 4th. Watch out for him. Some player named Bobmo that harassed the whole table for about an hour because he was busted on a bad beat.

Sweetest part of tourney: Busting Warking aka "I am Rick James, Biatch"

The Drought Ends

I finally broke my losing streak in MTT yesterday. After a 3 hour battle, I beat 90 other players to take down the first prize of $582.40 on Fulltilt. It wasn't so much the money as the thrill of making it back to the final table and winning.

I felt like I played good poker for the entire 3 hours. I started the tournament by doubling up early and then just hanging around the average stack size for the longest time. Cards came around just enough for me to stay above the water. When it got down to about 20 people, I opened it up a little and built a nice stack for the final table. Another player (t206naps) remarked that I didn't see a hand that I didn't like. Although that wasn't exactly true, the rest of the table tightened up enough to allow me to run over it.

However, there was this other player (Nizzate) who was pretty decent. He ended up finishing second, but I can't recall how many times I doubled him up. No matter what I had, he either had me beat or drew out on me. When we got heads up, I had a huge lead on him but I wasn't counting him out because of our history. Fortunately for me, my hand held up and it was sweet victory.

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