“I raise”

Haha, the world definitely needs another poker blog, for sure!

Yah, I can’t really be arsed sharing my private deepest thoughts with the world, so figure I’ll use this as a poker blog. Also I’m not the greatest at updates (notice the 2 month gap betweem signing up and my first real post!), so figure it wouldn’t be fair keeping people waiting on the cliffhangers of mylife

Well this is as good a time as any to start a poker blog for me, last week I took 1st place in 3 MTT’s in the space of 4 days, which setup my most profitable week ever of poker.

Weds

I played in the donkey $10+1 MTT and decided to LAG it up, it worked, I hit hands, I outlasted 800 starters and managed to get heads up, 1st hand of heads up we agreed a deal giving us both $1300. Nice.

Thurs

$20+2 PL Hold’em MTT, 128 runners, I ran pretty card dead for the 1st hour and was struggling to stay in the game, then after the break I managed a quick double up and then ran over the tournament, making the final table in 2nd place stack size. I then lucked out a couple of times on the final table, I wasn’t happy with the way I played at all, but the cards hit me, and I ended up heads up again. The guy actually tried talking smack at me headsup, calling me a  "luckbag" or somesuch comment, which I found amusing. I finished him off in about 10 mins of back and forwards eventually trapping him with 2 pair against his overpair. Another 1st place and $800!

Sat

$20+2 Stars 180 runners STT. This tourney was great, I doubled up really early after limping with a mid pocket pair and flopping a set, I then proceeded to destroy the entire field. I was one of the top stacks most of the way through the tourney and never once felt in any danger. If I can, I’ll try find my stats from the game, as I was raising and re-raising tons of pots and taking it down through pure aggression. The final table I was without a doubt running the show but it took much longer than expected as I was cut in half stack wise about 10 times. This is how it would go…. Andiell wins pot / Andiell win pot / Andiell win pot  / Andiell win pot / Andiell loses huge pot to short stack / rinse and repeat. Anyways, I eventually managed to take a few folks down and we got heads up, and 1st hand I decided to push with a huge chip lead with 10Jo, the other guy called with a mid pocket pair and I hit a J on the turn. Game over, my 3rd 1st place in 4 days, and another $1080.

Profit for the 4 days $3180.

Ahh happy days!