Oh bloody hell...

Why must poker be so addicting??! I found myself restless last night and ended up staying up for 3 hours playing poker. How, you ask? Well, the original plan was just to download Pstars so I could be ready for the blogger freeroll next weekend, but then I logged in and suddenly remembered - I have 1100+ FPPs, which coincidentally can be used to buy in to tournaments that pay real money. So figured, meh, it'll be fun, help get me prepared for the freeroll, etc etc excuses excuses. *eye roll*

So anyways, jumped into one of the 70 FPP Satellites to the Sunday 100K. Only first place gets the 10+1$ buyin (whoooohooooo) haha.. So anyways, after a tough start with a lot of de ja vous where my QQ was no good against A7 and top two ran into straight and blah blah, my fourth attempt was different.

In typical freeroll style, the first hand saw 4 players all in, and the monster Q7 found a Q on the river to get two-pair against AT (the best hand of the all in .. lol) and right off the bat we had 6 players and one stack of 6000. The big stack had a nasty habbit of open pushing any two face cards, and insta-jamming first and second pair. At first I was a bit card dead but then I found the monster K9 in the SB. There were a few limpers, and since he had ocassionally folded to aggression, I decided to let him do his jamming thing in which case I was going to snap-call. He jammed, it folded to me, and I called. He had the monster QJo, and I actually held to take down a huge pot and the chip lead. A couple hands later I managed to find KK and let him "take control" on the flop as I was again out of position on a Q high flop where he held J7 or some god-awful hand like that. Just like that I'm sitting on 7500 chips and looking down at 3 little baby stacks. The final 3 were surprisingly tight. I managed to get in with one stack who 4-bet jammed his JT into my KQ soooted and I held again to make it 3-way action. Not to long after that the middle stack open jammed (which he'd done a few times in the last couple hands) and the short stack called. I looked at KJ and decided I had to take a shot. Open jammer had 88 and shorty had AQs, but again I turned a king and just like that, I have 11 T$!

I immediately unregistered for the 100 grand and joined into two 5$ 9-man SNGs. A fast start on one table (got AA twice???) and a good start on the other ended with a 3rd place finish in one, during which I 3-bet pre with A6 and insta-called a jam when I flopped 2nd pair on J62. I was miles ahead of his 44, but the turn 5 and a river 3 ended those hopes. Still, almost doubled my whopping 5$ buyin. The second went much, much slower and by the 75/150 level, when these SNGs are typically 3-way or even heads up, we still had 8 players. EIGHT! At that point I had built a little bit of a stack and picked off a few shorties at opportune times. Ended up heads up with a 3-1 chip lead only to run into a card rack opponent. K-high was no good twice and none of my other hands were connecting. The turning point was when I had my shortstacked opponent all in, him with A4, me with K5. The flop brought a K and a 4, but the river brought doom in the Ace of hearts. It ended pretty quick after that.

So I turned 280 FPPs into $22.50 and I actually have real money in my account again - which I'm not sure how to use quite yet. I'll probably just donk around way out of my bankroll and try to get lucky. It was just fun and exciting to really be playing again - and to actually catch a few breaks and have a few good hands hold! Good lord! Me? A lucksack? Could it be happening???

See you blogger types this Sunday - don't miss it!

- Crush