Played at the dealer’s choice cash game again, but without the saving coup at the end. My worst beat of the night came on a 7-card stud variation I can’t remember the name of that had wild queens. I got two queens down and a king up, I’d been pushing the pot incrementally, and got another queen up on the last card. Then the queen of spades came as an up card, which killed the hand and broke my quad kings.
Full Tilt $15,000 KO Guarantee 6-Max (3,000 chips)
This game started off with a great overlay of only about 175 players but it was clearly going to meet its guarantee by the time I was eliminated. I’d won nothing larger than 100 chips, waiting for my spot for almost half an hour and dropping about 400 chips when I got 5
The flop gave me a straight: 4
Full Tilt Step 1 Sit & Go (1,500 chips)
Kind of rocky for the first twenty minutes: meaning I was flirting with the 1,500-chip starting position most of the time. A couple good hands bumped me up to 2K for a few minutes but then a nut flush draw bottomed out and I lost 500.
Then I caught a batch of good hands, starting with T
Ten minutes more and K
Full Tilt Step 2 Sit & Go (1,500 chips)
I built up to a nearly 2:1 lead over the other stacks by the 40-minute mark with four players eliminated, and over 45% of the chips in play in my stack. We were competing for two Step 3 tickets. Did I get one? No. I risked nearly 2K on a J
Full Tilt Step 2 Sit & Go 18-Players (1,500 chips)
Made it to almost 6K in chips before the tables consolidated but won just a single hand after that point, going out in sixth place, and getting yet another chance for Step 2.
Aces Players Club $1K Guarantee (5,000 chips)
Took a couple of early hits that nearly chopped my stack in half by the 40-minute mark, but shortly before the first break I caught a double-up with a flush through Señor Frog, a player two seats to my right who had a sparkly amphibian statuette for a card protector who was sucking down chips like they were flies. Didn’t quite make it to the second break, though, when I had Q
Aces Players Club (5,000 chips)
I hate to even admit this but this blog does not lie. The late-night table was exceedingly wild, with two all-ins and rebuys within the first six hands. I’m playing cautiously, I think. I’ve still got most of my stack left twenty minutes in when I get to the flop with K
Full Tilt $10,000 Rush Guarantee (1,500 chips)
Everything’s peachy until the last hand. Bleed some chips looking for a good hand, win a chunk of chips, repeat. It doesn’t work when my A
Full Tilt $18,000 Rush Guarantee Rebuy (1,500 chips)
I’m above the starting stack for less than 20% of this tournament. My last hand is A
Full Tilt On Demand (1,500 chips)
More textbook tournament stack building ruined by stupidcalling. Forty minutes in, I’d quadrupled my stack. I got J