Tuesday night it was just me and my daughter at home. My son had his final swim meet so my wife and other son were out of town for that when I got off work. I didn't play any poker so I could keep her entertained.
Wednesday night I decided to see if I could continue my streak of good play. I loaded a few too many games to play effectively. Fortunately the buy ins were inexpensive. I got in the 50.00 freeroll, the .10, .25, and .50 rebuy, and the .06 rebuy. I also got in the 2.20 badugi and the 2.20 100.00 guaranteed.
I tried to lose out of the freeroll quickly but doubled up twice with horrible starting hands. The .06 and .10 games were the same way only I doubled with better hands. The other games there was not much happening.
I decided to continue with them all. I lost out of the badugi game first when I had an aggressive player catch a low badugi on the river to my made 9 badugi. He was betting into my 0 draws and got lucky. I should have raised on the first draw. I paid for playing incorrectly.
I was soon out of the .06 game and freeroll. I was getting close to the money in the .25 and .50 games when I pushed AK into pairs on both games.
I was left with the 2.20 100.00 guaranteed and the .10 game. I was in 1st position when we reached the final 2 tables on the .10 game, but I went majorly card dead. I still won a few blind steals to keep my chip stack. I was around 10th when we reached the final 2 tables of the 2.20 game.
I made it to 5th in the .10 game before I finally pushed with 22. The other 4 at the table were sitting with 4 times my stack at this point. I was called by JJ. I took .99 for my effort. I love final tabling, even in small tournaments like this.
In the 2.20 game I continued to play and we were getting close to the bubble when I got AK suited. I raised and was raised by the short stack. He was all in. I called. He had KK. An ace hit on the flop but he ended up catching a runner runner flush to put me down to 2.5 bb's. I went all in shortly after with K7 suited. I was called by 95o. He caught a 5 on the flop and I never improved.
I have been playing just for fun this last month and it has helped my bankroll out quite a bit. As soon as I start trying to make money, I don't. If I play for fun, I seem to do a lot better. I think that staying away from the cash games has helped me out a lot too. I lost a lot of money at those and needed rakeback to have a chance at making money. I also have reached some of my deposit bonus and cashed in some of my VIP points. I have only been playing when I really have time to play. I have played less days than I have taken off this month.
I am enjoying the deep runs I am getting. I am considering using my 215.00 ticket this Sunday since I have been playing well. I also have 150.00 in free slot play at the casino on Sunday, so I may go there and see if I can cash enough out of it to sit at the 1 3 NL game in the poker room. There's also a live tourney in the area that runs at the same time.
I have quite a few options, but I'll probably go with the free 150.00 and another shot at the 1-3 NL game. I can get in the 215.00 game on a different Sunday. It's hard for me to go to the live game on Sunday as that's the 5.50 deep stack, as well as any other tournaments I can win tickets for.
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