“I raise”

I was getting a bit concerned at the weekend that the variance monster was ready to pounce, Friday I played a ton of STT’s and made a small profit of $180, the money is fine, but it was only rescued by a late run of 1st’s and I felt I was playing and running badly. Sunday was essentially the same thing, except I played fewer games and registered a $200 loss, my first 3 figure+ loss in over 3 weeks, it was pretty sick, I was getting 2 outered and 3 outered every other hand.

Anyways, Monday, I felt fresh and confident so sat down for what I planned as a heavy session of beers and grinding in the STT’s. My first set of 3 x $33’s went: 4th, 5th, 2nd, acceptable. As these were running I joined the $55 PL MTT and the $3 re-buy donkament, by the time the STT’s had fininshed I was running v.good in both the MTT’s so figured I would just focus on them. Good plan!

I creamed the $55 MTT after building a big stack early as a direct result of being hit in the face by the deck, I then abused the bubble to the point of ridiculousness. The final table was actually hard work and I nearly busted at one point but caught a lucky river card to stay in, after that I got heads up with a guy I hadn’t even noticed at the final table he had been so quiet. Anyways, 1st hand….

Andiell: "you wanna do a chop?"

MrQuiet "what are the figures, how long it take?"

Andiell: "50/50 we keep $100 on the table to play for, takes 5 mins"

MrQuiet: "nah lets play"

Now had the stacks been deeper, I wouldn’t have offered the split, this guy had been completely anonymous at the final table and sneaked his way here, I was confident my aggression would win, but with the stacks at 70k (me) v 60k, and blinds 2/4k I felt that locking up the extra money was more important, one unlucky pot and I was done.

5 mins later, the stacks were, approx 110k me v 20k, I had won every hand unshown.

Andiell "No offense but you should have taken that split"

MrQuiet "Yeah I know"

Final result… 1st place for $1575

The re-buy donkament was less successfull, I ran really deep in a huge field, with a stack of over 300k at one point, but ended up busting in about 40th place with KK v AA. I made a small profit on this tourney after I subtracted my 16 (!!) re-buys.

So what do I do with my sinful winnings? Well yesterday I went to Ikea…. word to the wise, Ikea during the school holidays is just a bad idea! At Ikea I bought some Swedish cheese, and Swedish Dill chips, as you do (oh and some bookcases too). Rock n roll lifestyle folks, today I’ll be trashing a room, no literally, as I have to assemble the damn things!

P.S. If anyone actually reads this, please do leave a comment, I’m not sure if I’m talking to myself at the moment.

P.P.S Does anyone know how I can change the image at the top of this page?!?!