Looping the Hen

Cash over Glory...

Well, was a good day of pokering!

I played in both the big Pokerstars Blogging tourney mentioned below, plus a $20,000 tourney I qualified for playing on Poker.com.

The Blog tourney ended up with their prizes being a lot of slots for other big tourneys, so when it came time to focus my attention, I ended up picking the $20,000 tourney (plus the Pokerstars GUI was confusing me; it's cool, but I just wasn't used to it). I ended up going all in in the Blogger tourney with Qd/10d with a queen on the board, flop was rainbow Q52. I shouldn't have even been in the hand, and the guy flipping AcQc showed me why. Ended up 909 of 2500 players.

In the cash tourney, I swore I wasn't going to play stupid like I had been, and cranked down on my game, only playing pockets or other premium hands. A couple of early good hands (including AA my 2nd hand, and a 55 where I hit my set a little later) put me in the top 5-10% of the 761 field for at least the first half of the tourney. Of course as the blinds start going up, even a good size holding can get eaten away fast. At the 2nd break I was sitting in at 49 of 49 remaining (well into the money at this point, which I was very happy about, but not so much about being in last place with 1940 chips, average was over 10000). Talked to my honey for about 3 mintues, and came back to a string of breaks.

On my Big Blind (800/1600 by this point) I called my last 340 in showing 6c4d offsuit versus a pair of black jacks and I figured I was out. 4 diamonds later my 4d won the day and more than doubled me up. I won 3 or 4 more all in's and ended up 10 out of 41 at one point in chip stack.

My luck ran out as I put my last 10k in on my AK offsuit and my opponent shows QQ. Still, I lost on a break point and picked up $200, ending up 20th out of 761! Not a huge amount, but it puts faith back that I really can play this game, which I wasn't so sure of when I got wrecked rapidly twice in a row last weekend by the Mafioaza crew. That puts me at +$56 lifetime online poker winnings, go me!

Tammy baby, let's get you some shoes!