Back in the game
Its been a funny few months. For a while I stopped playing poker all together.
It started with a combination of a bad run at the tables, and the purchase of an XBOX 360. Sadly I haven't got time in the evenings to play lots of XBOX games AND play poker and for a good while I didn't play any online poker at all. This just sort of crept up on me and amazed me. I used to play at virtually every opportunity I got.
Anyway I've played once more at Luton with much more success, finishing 14th out of 60-odd, which was respectable. It was pushing 2 when I busted, defending my blinds with JTo in a very ill-advised move. The play before that was interesting - with one fellow pushing all in, a couple of people folding to me - and him turning his hand up not noticing I was still in the hand. I hope to go down there in future - maybe every couple of months. We'll see how it goes.
The other night I played in the Crypto 10pm $55 tourny - which is now down to a 3.5k guarantee, and game in 9th, making about $50 profit. I'd played pretty well all the way through, basically just chipping up from the initial 2k, and getting it all in with AA v AK once. On the FT I made an amazingly wild UTG raise with JTs, and UTG+1 flat calls. The flop comes Txx all clubs - I push and he calls with Aces. Having played really well for so long I get impatient at the end. Daft.
Anyway I'm feeling like I might get back into the poker more seriously - trying to finance a trip to Vegas next July (guess why!). I'd need quite a bit of money to finance the tournments I'd want to buy into (~$2k for flights/hotel,~$4-5k bankroll). I've got about 3k online at the moment, but I can't use that so I've got a long way to go. Additionally I'd need to book it all up in Feb/March at the latest so I haven't got that long.
Hopefully I'll find myself back at the tables before too long.
It started with a combination of a bad run at the tables, and the purchase of an XBOX 360. Sadly I haven't got time in the evenings to play lots of XBOX games AND play poker and for a good while I didn't play any online poker at all. This just sort of crept up on me and amazed me. I used to play at virtually every opportunity I got.
Anyway I've played once more at Luton with much more success, finishing 14th out of 60-odd, which was respectable. It was pushing 2 when I busted, defending my blinds with JTo in a very ill-advised move. The play before that was interesting - with one fellow pushing all in, a couple of people folding to me - and him turning his hand up not noticing I was still in the hand. I hope to go down there in future - maybe every couple of months. We'll see how it goes.
The other night I played in the Crypto 10pm $55 tourny - which is now down to a 3.5k guarantee, and game in 9th, making about $50 profit. I'd played pretty well all the way through, basically just chipping up from the initial 2k, and getting it all in with AA v AK once. On the FT I made an amazingly wild UTG raise with JTs, and UTG+1 flat calls. The flop comes Txx all clubs - I push and he calls with Aces. Having played really well for so long I get impatient at the end. Daft.
Anyway I'm feeling like I might get back into the poker more seriously - trying to finance a trip to Vegas next July (guess why!). I'd need quite a bit of money to finance the tournments I'd want to buy into (~$2k for flights/hotel,~$4-5k bankroll). I've got about 3k online at the moment, but I can't use that so I've got a long way to go. Additionally I'd need to book it all up in Feb/March at the latest so I haven't got that long.
Hopefully I'll find myself back at the tables before too long.
posted by PP at 11:09 AM
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