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Monday, February 27, 2006

Poker League

Well yesterday was an interesting poker day.

I played some 2/4 limit at Ultimate Bet for a very short time, losing far more than I really liked (some $150). I just couldn't have my good hands stand up or when I had a good hand someone had a better one. Bleh. So I quit and played xbox for awhile. I started playing Jade Empire this weekend, and I'm really enjoying it so far!

Then, at 7:00, PSO had their 2nd league event. Unfortunately, I had to miss the first one. Last night I got extremely lucky at some pretty key moments. Early in the tournament, I busted a guy when I flopped a set of Jacks to his pocket kings. I'm a little surprised he called my all-in bet on the flop, but I was happy! After that, I started to bleed chips for a long time. With about 70 people left out of the 130 that entered, I was in the bottom 20 people or so, and just trying to survive. Then I went on a tear - stealing the blinds with decent hands like AJ and KQ. These hands pushed me up to 3rd in chips at one point.

I collapsed later on - I can't quite remember what the hands were, but I lost a bunch of chips and then I mistakenly called a guy's bet when I meant to fold. Oops! That's a lot of chips to lose on a misclick. I was once again near the bottom of the totem pole, this time with 30 people or so left. I pushed with 53s in the BB (since I had no chips left), and hit two pair on the river. *whew*. Another double up and almost double up from there and I was golden to make the final table.

Once there, the table was real tight. Understandably since the top 3 get much larger prizes (since PSO was topping up the prizes of the top 3 finishers with PSO points). I stole some blinds to stick around my 6th largest stack (out of 9). Then, a guy raises in early position with KQ and I hold tens. I thought about it, and pushed. The guy calls (I think this is a terrible call), and hits a king on the river. :( I'm out in 8th for an $18.08 payout. Yippee.

Still, its not a bad spot to be in. The idea for the league is to count your best 6 finishes in up to 10 tournaments. Your average place then becomes your score and the person with the best overall score (lowest) wins a $1500 prize package to play an event at the WSOP. That would be sweet.

So ... 8th is a pretty good spot. If I can do similarly in 5 more league events, I'll be golden to finish in the top 3 for sure (if not first). Wish me luck!

Heraldk

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