A busy day (for me) at the virtual tables yesterday.<\/p>\n
I started off in a morning turbo game that had over $34K in guarantees. I took a big hit on hand 7 laying down Q<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> after an ace and a king showed on the flop and turn respectively and a doubled-up stack bet big. I only lasted five more hands.<\/p>\n Didn’t do much better in the $5K guarantee I entered next after calling a short-stack’s all-in with Q<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> halved me. It was a coin toss but I never recovered.<\/p>\n Entered a couple of freerolls without getting very far; ditto with a couple more EPT Steps Special tournaments. The last of those was extra-short. With 200 of 1,000 chips in pre-flop and Q<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> in my hand, I bet 300 on a flop of 7<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> and the only caller goes all-in. I call and he’s got T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> and a 28% chance of winning, which he does when 8<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> shows up on the turn giving him a straight. An 8<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the river rubs it in just a little more.<\/p>\n I went 71 minutes into another $6K guarantee but only made it about halfway through the field of 2,100.<\/p>\n My singular win of the day was in a $9.5K guarantee. I made it to 71st place for an ROI of 136%. So that was nice. It’s three cashes in tournaments between 1,100 and 2,500 players in three weeks. Not big money but not big buy-ins, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A busy day (for me) at the virtual tables yesterday. I started off in a morning turbo game that had over $34K in guarantees. I took a big hit on hand 7 laying down Q\u2665 Q\u2663 after an ace and … Continue reading