“I raise”

So Sunday I played in the Stars WSOP 150 Guaranteed tourney. At a $370 buy-in this was officially the most expensive tourney I had played in. With dreams of flying out to Vegas next week I sat down at 9pm Sunday along with 7400 other players!!! With a prize pool of $2.5million, this was officially the largest online tournament EVER! Impressive, nice to be a part of history. This also meant that were I to qualify, I would have to beat 7200 people to claim one of the 250 seats there were up for grabs. To cut a long story short, I managed to outlast 6000 people but still fell short. I was very unhappy with the way I played this tourney, I played far too timidly and never felt comfortable. I was blinded down to virtually dead after an hour and a half then finally picked up QQ which I managed to triple up with against AK and A8, however I ran completely card dead after this and was unable to ever build up a decent stack. C’est la vie, I’ll be going next year for sure!

 

I was planning on not really playing any poker this week as I really put in a lot of hours last week and had quite a few late nights. However I get bored easily, and I may aswell be bored making money rather than bored watching telly.

Sooo…

Monday night I only played for an hour and a half, I fired up a $30+3 STT, and a $20+2 180 MTT.

The STT was good, I don’t really remember any stand out hands but I played pretty solid and took 1st place which was good for $135. The MTT I also played pretty solid but lost a coinflip and then made a badly timed bluff which sent me busto in about 40th place.

Tuesday… lastnight I played in a $20+2 Seven Card Stud MTT, I really enjoyed this tournament and it was as much a learning experience as a hunt for the money. Only 40 players started and it paid top 5, I eventually busted in 5th place, good for $65. Not much money at all but I was very pleased with this, what with 7 card stud not being my strongest game at all.

I also played in three $20/180 MTT’s, these were all very short, 3 outered early on in all 3

AK anhilated by AQ

AK anhilated by AJ

and AK anihilated by AJ (WTF is AJ the new AK or something?!)

Frustrating but I can live with it. It’s these people making those calls that make us all money in the long run.

Oh well, tonight I’m playing football so may give poker a miss altogether.