So I went to Dino's on Monday night - bubbled the final table when my A-J outflopped Donald's A-Q...but then saw Donald go runner-runner clubs to make his flush and send me packing. I'm guessing this portends a deep run next week, as has been happening after an early exit the last few months.
Played in Nik's Poker Palace league game again last night, and had a much better showing than the previous week. Nursed a relatively short stack all the way to the final table, then got a quick double up and 2 knockouts....ultimately busted out 5th when A-10 couldn't improve over 6-6. As I've said before, great group of guys to play with, which ultimately makes for a great league.
While playing the Tuesday league game, played in my WBCOOP satellite, and managed to qualify for the main event on Sunday for finishing in the Top 200. For getting 153rd and higher (138th, I think), I also got a $11 SCOOP ticket to use later on this year. I may take a second crack in the PLO H/L tourney at 10pm tonight - otherwise my ticket goes to waste. Let the Euro donkfest commence!
For some reason my HH option on Stars did not have the box checked to save my HHs to my hard drive, so no real hands to post here. I'll try to rundown as best I can how it went. 1st hour saw me double my chips playing basic ABC poker...ho hum. Got to the 2nd hour and realized that I was "outside the number" as far as positioning goes...wanted to at least make main event, and get $11 SCOOP ticket, so I treated this as nothing more than a satellite from here on out.
Down to 203, laid down Q-Q in the BB when 2 big stacks immediately before me tangled with each other. If we were down to 199, I insta-call here, but knowing the within 2 hands the "sit-outs" would be gone, I put this hand down. Of course, you know what flops out: 9-Q-9...with K-J ultimately pwing 7-7 (?) when a J hit on the river, eliminating a player. Ummmm, yeah - satellite action, it's FAAAAAAAAAANTASTIC - I love this game!
Cleared the bubble about 45 minutes later for the $11 SCOOP tickets - time to donk it up and try to get some chips if I want to get a $16.50 or higher SCOOP ticket. Shove in SB with A-2 against shorty in BB...who instacalls with A-J, oops. Next hand, on the button, put my last 1700 into the middle with 5-4, BB (at 500/1000) calls me solely for flyswatting reasons with 6-4 (@#%@!~), and his turned 6 ends my tourney. Did the minimum of what I wanted, so good work there.
Played a couple of Fifty50 SnGs at micro-levels and cashed in them...seems simpler than the double-or-nothing tourneys, with more potential payout. If you haven't seen them, you get your buy-in back when half the players are gone, but then the other half of the prize pool is paid out proportionate to the chips you have remaining. Big stacks, obviously, get more coin than short stacks...but I found you don't have to be uber-aggressive to make some coin in these games. I think I found a new game to play for a while here.
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