Another Bump

So I added a little more to UltimateBet yesterday, adding $5 to bring it just under $150. I won the $5 in the CardsChat U/B Freeroll, which I have already talked about a dozen times. I placed 12th in it, but the money wasn't the only good part about the game, I also won my 2nd Last Person Standing Challenge title, which doesn't earn me anything extra, just bragging rights for a day, lol, but it adds a little extra challenge to it to make it fun.

I also started using some of my Bodog winnings to try to turn a profit, as I haven't played with any of my roll there except for one time in a cash game, which I ended up losing $0.50, so I just played a 10-man SNG for $2.20 and I ended up winning it, making $6, but really only 3.80 after the buyin. I am kind of mad at myself for it though, I didn't realize it was listed as a Beginner SNG, so the top 5 out of 10 got paid, which just cut my winnings by about $4, but oh well, still won.

I think I am played a tournament on Carbon later on today, but I'm not sure how much poker I will be playing this weekend, but if anything happens, here will be the first place you'll be able to find out about it. Take it easy guys

Full Tilt Is Growing

The past couple days have been pretty successful for me. First I will start with Friday, which really wasn't a success, but that was out of my own stupidity. I was playing the CardsChat Carbon Freeroll, in which 5 places pay out, well, I made it down to the final six and I'm sure I could have made it into the money, because there was one other player that was below my chipstack by quite a bit, but I was also fairly low and needed to make a move to move up in spots. My problem came in that I wasn't just playing for the money, but also a CardsChat Challenge called Last Person Standing, or LPS, which really doesn't get you much but your name on a leaderboard and some bragging rights. In the challenge it was down to me and one other person, who had about double my stack and I needed to catch up to him in order to make any kind of a run on him. So I was in early position with AJs and pushed(only had about 6BBs left anyway). and I got called by the Small Blind who had AQo, I caught my Jack on the flop, but then on the river he improved to an Ace high straight, and I was out on the bubble. Had I not been trying to catch up to him I'm not sure I would have made this move right here, but possibly just tried to eke my way into the money, but oh well.

On to Full Tilt, where there was actually some progress... On Saterday, I played about 15 of these Sit-N-Learn freerolls, which I won tickets to through the Full Tilt Academy, and with them, the top 100 get a ticket to a $5000 freeroll on Sunday, so through playing the 15 or so, I ended up getting tickets to the Sunday in 7 of them(which I found out later didn't matter because you can't redeem anything from them by unregistering =/, I just made it so the field was a little smaller). So Sunday, I got to play in this one, which I ended up making $12, but I should have been higher, here is how I went out. So a player in early position with a stack just above mine raised pre-flop to about 5XBB and I look down at AKo, so I just flat called, not wanting to get into a huge pot with an unmade hand preflop, everyone else folded. Flop comes Axx, GREAT! He raises the pot, so I reraisedthe new pot and he pushes allin, I call and he shows me the AQo, perfect, only 3 outs for him. Turn comes a 9 and of course the river is a Q, so I was out. I felt like I played the hand great, just got screwed by the river. Nothing that I did was going to make him put that hand down.

I also won $2.50 in the Fantasy Freeroll for Limit Stud Hi Lo, which I got about 95th place out of 800 or so, which I find pretty good since I usually suck at Hi-Lo games, just because I am so used to Holdem, but I am getting a lot better at recognizing the low without problems. So now I'm up to about $22.50 in my FullTilt account, which is obviously the highest I have had it for the challenge. Hopefully this week will be as good as last, talk to ya later!

WSOP Month Was Good To Me

OK, so when I last updated you guys I had just cashed in my first Fantasy Poker Event on FullTilt. Since then I have played two more, and I believe I have another two coming up. Anyway, the ones that I played were the NL 6-Max and the Omaha Hi Low 8/b. In the NL 6-Max I can't remember what place I got into, but I know that I cashed for $2, so that was a plus. In the Omaha game, I just couldn't get anything going, seemed like the only time I was winning hands, I was splitting it for the low or high, drove me nuts. There were a TON of people sitting out that must have forgotten about it, so had I played smart, I probably could have outlasted them until they were blinded away and made the money, but oh well.

On UltimateBet, I was playing one of the weekly CardsChat Tournaments and ended up getting 4th place in it and took home $12 for that, which was nice because I have felt like UB hasn't done much for me lately.

Then tonight, I was playing in another CardsChat event on Bodog and got 2nd place, adding another $24 to my account, and had I waited for a better hand, I may have been able to win it, but here was the scenario. About 5-10 minutes into HeadsUp I was dealt 98s, so I made the standard p/f raise of about 3XBB, he calls. Flop comes A98 rainbow, how much better could it have been? He was betting just about anything on every flop, so I checked to him knowing he was going to bet, he bet the pot and I just called. The turn brought a rag, so I checked again and this time he min bet, so I pushed and he called(had me covered by about 8k chips). He turns over A9 for the top 2 pair to my middle 2.... needless to say, my hand didn't improve on the river(was only about 2% to hit one of the other 2 8s) and I got 2nd, which is my biggest cash on Bodog so far.

Other than that, I have a lot of little tournaments coming up this weekend that I will be playing in and hopefully making something out of. A bunch of these stupid Sit-N-Learn Freerolls on FullTilt, which I don't even know what the payout is or anything, so we'll see if I even play them. But until next time, see ya at the tables...