Hitting A Groove

I haven't played much this past week, been busy enjoying the summer and have had to work as well. I did manage to get in two tournaments on Sunday night however. I played a $22 omaha hi-lo and a $33 holdem on pokerstars. As we got near the bubble, I had a pretty low stack in both, but high enough to where I wasn't worried about not cashing.

Once we got in to the money, I actually made a bit of a run in the holdem tourney. I doubled on the button when I shoved my short stack with Q6o and was called with AJ. Thankfully my cards were live and I flopped a Q to double up. I doubled again shortly thereafter when I picked up aces against the same player's AQ. Unfortunately I went out not long after that when I raised JQo from the button. The BB flat called me, and the flop came KQJ rainbow. We got it all in and he showed KT, so I was ahead, but he had outs. He rivered a K and that was it for me, I went out 28th out of 550 or thereabouts. It was too bad, if I'd doubled there I would have had a very comfortable stack and could have made a run to at least try and make the final table.

In the omaha8 my luck wasn't any better. Made it in to the money fairly easily, but was shortstacked soon after (I love that there are no antes in omaha tourneys). I raised 1/2 my stack preflop with A234 suited and got it in on a 78J flop against a guy with 9Qxx only, but unfortunately he paired his Q on the turn and no low card would come off to save me a split and that was it.

I felt good though, getting deep in 500+ player fields. I really feel like I'm hitting my stride in tournament play. I have ~20 more to play on the stake and have all but guaranteed a profit for my backer unless I do something stupid, or somehow fail to cash in any of my last 20...lol

Once I'm done that (hopefully in a couple weeks), I'm going to look at playing heads up no limit fairly seriously. We'll see how things go. For now, I'm just going to continue playing $25 pot limit omaha and try and grind together some money that way that will help me make the transition to heads up.