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!

World Series of Poker Baby! - with Updates

Wow, so I really am turning into how I was right after I started this thing. I haven't posted in exactly a month! I'm sorry. I have been playing poker, but just haven't found the time to write anything about it, not that I didn't have plenty to say, just never completed the task. So aside from that, it's World Series time!!!! I have been completely immersed in that, mainly because I have a Fantasy Poker team on FullTilt, which has already yielded me some goodies. So far I have won a FullTilt Poker hat and 4 tickets to freerolls(if I make it into the top ten then I qualify for a Main Event Ticket Freeroll!!! How sweet would that be?) I already lost the Pot Limit Omaha Hi Freeroll earlier tonight, got about 600th place and 360 pay out, but right now I am playing the Limit Stuf Hi and I made the money and am currently in 140th place after the 2nd break, so pray for me(I'm not the best Stud player, but I have been making some pretty impressive moves tonight). I also have a No-Limit 6-Max event coming up sometime, and I can't remember what the other one is, but those should be fun.

On the other hand, I have won some money on PokerStars and Bodog in the last month through playing a couple CardsChat freerolls(for Bodog) and some regular donkrolls on PS(actually was just playing to waste time and ended up making some money, that works, right?) I have played a bunch more MTTs as well, but I can't remember the exact results. Although, I am going to be keeping much better track of my play and hopefully plugging some leaks of mine, because I got Hold'em Manager fully installed now, so I have imported all of my hands from the last year or so and trying to see what I can learn about myself. I will keep you guys posted on that as well, but not in too much detail, for obvious reasons.

But anyway, I am going to go try to place top 10 in this tournament so I am possibly go to the Main Event next year and then I will be at my $10k! Take it easy guys, I will update later how I finished in this.

Update: At the 3rd break I am up to 52nd place with 119 left...still in this B ;)

Update #2: Right after the 4th break was dealt As9cAc, got all but 1000 in on first, opponent had a 2 showing, so I pushed on next move and he flips over pocket trip 3s and my hand never improved. Good run though, now I've gotta wait til next week for my next events though. Made $3 for the freeroll, and I didn't get my Main Event Ticket so I'm kind of disappointed. Time for bed though, g'night