Well its been a while, and since black Friday I hav'nt really been playing all that much. I have well over 2 grand stuck at Full Tilt, and after having trusted the online poker sites for many years, it has come as a bit of a blow to me. I will probably play a bit over the next few days to get platinum star on PokerStars though, considering its only 750 VPP's this year.
I have been having some nice results in my live games over the last few weeks though, with 6 out of 7 cashes in the last few tourneys, most of them were pretty small fields though, a few nights ago though, on a last minute decision I entered the Wednesday €25 rebuy at the Fitz in Dublin, that kicked off with 66 entrants.
The initial starting stacks were short as hell, 2K with blinds at 25/50, and a 20 minute clock made for an agressive first 90 mins (rebuy period), and after a quick double on the second hand A2>KQ on a K22 flop, I have no real hands of note until the last rebuy hand. I limp 88 UTG, MP1 raise, 4 calls, and I shove. I get called by AK,AK,KQ and QJ and its looking good with everyone holding each others outs, my 8's hold and I get into the break on a stack of ~20K after the 4k addon.
Live players are sooooo bad, with only around half the field taking the 4K addon, immediately after the break it was evident that we were going to have a quick bit of a shove fest. It works out well for me, and I wipe out several shorties and get my way up to the leaders on 60K, with 30 players remaining.
Then it went badly for me, I lose 3 race's and I am almost crippled with the last 2 tables forming. I go shove happy, much to the distane of the limpers that seemed content to call off their stacks pre. Back to 12 big's, when i min raise 10's, and get shoved on by the big blind with 2 unders on an ill timed bluff and im back in the hunt with the final table forming.
Final table consisted of a massive stack, me, some polish dude and 6 shorties, so a nice cash was on the cards, and we have 3 quick exits, as the big stack is raising every hand. I shove over him a few times, and get into a comfortable 2nd. AA hit at a great time as the 3rd stack reshoved A10s into me, and I am right up there with 5 left. We quickly get down to 3, with very even stacks, talk of a deal was shot down immediately by the previous big stack.
Blinds it 10-20K and again it becomes a preflop shove fest. Eventually I shove A2s OTB and get called by MR No Deal, with AK and I get no help on the flop, or the turn. As usual when a player stands up the river binks, I win a massive pot and its heads up. First hand heads up, I raise 89s, and raise a donk bet with a flush draw, he flats, and we check a brick on the turn, he shoves the river and we are back to even steven. We chop.
€900 profit out of a €45 investment. €2,200 over the last 7 tourneys, happy days.
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