Back in the Saddle

After a weekend of not playing a single hand, I got back at it today. Played some $50 early on, and did ok. Put in about 300 hands to get my Ironman points and won about $30. Nothing major.

Then FCP ran a $10 buyin $500 added tourney. I decided that since I'd been running decently well and have benefitted from other people doing so in the past, I'd stake a few people in to the tournament all in the spirit of the community. I originally said I'd stake 4, which then turned in to 8, plus my entry. I crapped out in that, as did EVERY one of the guys I staked - I didn't get so much as a single person that made the money. Oh well, whatever - as I say, I've taken stakes from guys before when I was busto or close to it and I know how much it means to just be in the action.

After the FCP tourney, I got in to a couple of $4.40's. Kind of meandered through them, never really built up a stack but lasted fairly long in both, going out 51st and 41st. For right now, consistency is the most important thing for me. I am going to need a score somewhere in the last nine tourneys to be comfortable, BUT, the more important thing right now is to earn as many points as I can when the cards aren't running my way. A 50th place finish when card dead is much better than forcing the action a bit earlier and going out 125th.

When those were over, I got in to a $5 omaha rebuy with Biglebowski. To make a long story short, I missed a chance to triple up just before the first break when I lost to a guy who had exactly a 4% chance of winning the hand when all the money went in. That hurt just a little, but I was able to rebuy still and do the add-on. Once we got past that point, I went out on a flop where the guy with a big stack who was betting in to my full house had no less than a 2% chance, and hit perfect perfect for a bigger boat. That obviously wasn't my tournament....lol

Once that was thankfully over, I got back in to some $50 plo. I was cruising right along, up a buyin early when I end up with AAxx, on a final board of AT85T. Aces full looks solid while all the money is going in to the middle - until the other guy rolls over TT for the rivered quads. That sucked pretty hard.

Kept at it, grinding it out for a little bit longer, and I get dealt AAKQ double suited. All the money goes in to the pot preflop THREE ways ($170 pot) and I took it down. I didn't even see the hand, as most times when I'm all in preflop, I minimize the table and just wait for it to pop back up on the next hand when it's my turn to act and I have a giant stack. If it doesn't pop up in a minute or so, I know I didn't get there and it's time to pull it back up and reload.

I plan to put in a LOT of hands tomorrow -- hopefully 1k or so at $50. Maybe play 2 or 3 $4.4o's - I have 9 more to play for the challenge. I'm thinking that the positive karma from doing all those stakes ought to come back to me somewhere....