Full Tilt $12,000 Rush Guarantee Rebuy (1,500 chips)
The buy-in for this tournament was low, and I’m trying to get a strategy worked out for the Rush tournaments, so I entered this even though I tend to avoid the rebuy games. Three of the players at the table double-stacked themselves before the first hand began, but the size of the guarantee was good. My play wasn’t, though. Hand nine and I had K
Full Tilt Midnight Madness! (1,500 chips)
This game doesn’t have either the lows or the highs of the previous Midnight Madness. Sure, I dip down below 1,000 chips a couple of times in the early levels, but nothing catches fire and by the time I pick up K
Cake Irish Open 2011 Quarter-Final Freezeout (2,000 chips)
This month’s Irish Open Finals snuck up on me. I had intended to try to qualify in one of the weekly Semi-Finals earlier in the month so that I wouldn’t be playing the Semi the same day as the Final, since it looks like the ticket winners have to join after the match has begun. Anyway, this wasn’t a game that would qualify me for anything. I played for 50 minutes and briefly broke 3,000 chips, finishing 14th of 18.
Full Tilt $19,000 Rush Guarantee Rebuy (1,500 chips)
This could have gone well but I got overconfident with pocket T
Cake Irish Open 2011 Quarter-Final Freezeout (2,000 chips)
Another game that goes nowhere but down. Out in 12th of 15 players.
Cake Irish Open 2011 Quarter-Final Freezeout (2,000 chips)
Is my heart in these? 11th place of 12 players.
Cake Irish Open 2011 Quarter-Final Freezeout (2,000 chips)
Something screws up on my computer at the last minute and I can’t get out of this match before it begins. Only six players sign up and there’s no semi-final ticket awarded, just cash distribution. Another pair of tens is my final hand.
Cake Irish Open 2011 Semi-Final (3,000 chips)
I tote up and enter the Semi directly. Things get off to a decent beginning and by the first break I’m up to 5,200, actually in the prize ticket zone. Not great but not under the starting stack. Another hour and I have slipped below that number, to 2,500 chips. Not where you want to be after two hours of play.
There are seven players at my table. There’s a stack of 14K to my right, three stacks between 9K and 11K, and a couple of about 5K. I’ve actually made it to the last two tables out of 45 players (Cake runs 10-player tables). There are eight tickets being awarded to the Final, which just started. Blinds are 150/300/30 and I raise to 600 with 3
My last hand in the match is a better starter but it isn’t nearly as lucky. I’m heads-up with another player after calling his 750 raise from the small blind in the same level as the above hand. I’ve got J
Cake Daily $700 Guarantee Turbo (4,000 chips)
This is almost a classic good trend for a tournament. I probed for a chance to build my stack through the first half hour, losing blinds and one small showdown. I doubled up to 5,800 with a A
An hour into the match I had over 15K, after a pocket 8
I wasn’t so lucky a few minutes later when I put A
It all went south on Hand 133.
Cake $1,000 Guarantee Turbo 6-Max (3,000 chips)
I managed to build well in the first hour of this match but hit a rough patch and lost three big hands that whittled my stack from 14K to 5K. Then I had the bad luck to think that my A
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