The flu season started at our house the night before last. I took yesterday off to stay home with my son and daughter after I had a dentist appointment to fill a couple cavity's. My wife took the morning shift.
It was a rough afternoon trying to keep a baby intertained and a sick kid happy. Once school got out, I picked up my other son. He said he was happy he finally got a day without his little brother. I guess his little brother hangs with him during recess every day.
In the evening my sick son and daughter both fell asleep. I took that as a sign that I could get a little poker in. I registered for 5 tournaments, most of them were late registrations as the registration period on a lot of games is now 2 to 3 1/2 hours. I'd rather late register and take my chances than sit through 3 1/2 hours of re entry play, where at some point I will get beat by some idiot who doesn't mind playing any hand and rebuying over and over again.
I had a fairly deep run in the nightly 250.00 guarantee. I got busted in the first hand of the nightly 500.00 guarantee when I got KK and an ace hit on the flop after I went all in and was called. I made the final table in another smaller tournament but was busted in 9th when my AK met up with 99. I went into the final table in 2nd to last place so I was looking to make a move anyway. I lost another game that I made it close to the money.
On the last game I had open I had made the final table 5th in chips. It was only paying top 5 but had a good payout as it was a rebuy game. We were all deep stacked when we reached the money and I had increased to 3rd in chips. By the time the 5th place person went out I was short stack. The pay jump from 4th to 3rd was quite a bit more than 5th to 4th so I was going to play tight trying to get 3rd.
I started catching some hands and figuring out how to get some pots of the big stack to stay alive. 4th place finally went out giving 2nd place a good chip lead over myself. I knew it was going to be a hard fought battle if I wanted to move up further. I played against the big stack and caught him bluffing a couple of times. I stayed away from 2nd in chips because he usually had the hand. Finally 2nd in chips took a large chunk off of chip stack shortening his stack below mine. The next hand I had QQ. He went all in and I called taking him out. The very 1st hand of heads up I got AK. He called the blind and I raised. He went all in. He had J8 suited and hit a J on the flop. I had invested 2.10 in the game to make 50.00, plus I had some min cashes in most of the other games.
I have been playing 1.00 and 2.00 tournaments since I have been late registering. If I keep posting decent results, I will add back in 5.00 tournaments.
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