Finally a winning session. I have had losing sessions since my last post until yesterday. I am now down 20.00 with 625 games played. I have 125 games left to play this month. I could have played more yesterday but decided to try my hand at tournaments instead. I hadn't played any tournaments all month and felt this was the day, especially with the 1.10, $10,000.00 guaranteed tournament on Carbon.
I loaded up quite a few games and got to work min cashing in most of the small buy in's. I played 3 11.00 tournaments and busted in all 3 of them in short order. I made a semi-deep run in a 5.50 deep stack. I was on the final 3 tables, 3rd in chips and busted out with pocket Q's to a K7 suited after he raised and I went all in. Later in the evening, I made a deep run in the nightly 2.20 game, where I met my demise again with pocket Q's to a K7 suited in the final 2 tables. This time a huge stack called my all in, with a lot of extra chips on the table, so it was a bit of a different scenario. I wanted to fold it as there was a raiser and a caller before me and I didn't have enough chips to push them out of the pot. A triple up was too inviting, so I went for it. I was facing AJ and 99 by the other 2 players that had raised and called before me.
I finished in the money of the $10,000.00 guaranteed. I think I went out 500ish for 7.00.
In the end it was a losing day for tournaments. I did have fun trying to make that final table.
I found it hard to keep the concentration in long, deep tournaments. I have not played in many big field ones in recent memory.
ReplyDeleteI love deep stack, big field, long tournaments. I just don't have the time to play them where I can concentrate on the whole game very often. If I had time, this would be all that I would play. I'm hoping to get in a good all day tournament out at Vegas this time. I'll only do it if my buddy wants to play it as well or has other plans for an afternoon.
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