Another Final Table!

Just a week after my first nlhe mtt win, I was in great posistion to do it a second time! Although the result was not as good as the first, I won almost as much money and placed second to a very good player in heads up. This time the tournament was on Full Tilt, after I had a friend transfer me $10 over to the site so I could play the $2 and $1 rebuys. I a deep run in the $2 rebuy, before losing to a bad beat. The $1 rebuy however, it seemed I could not lose chips. The field consisted of 558 players. My game started to go into high gear when My QJ caught a straight on the flop. After that I pretty much steam rolled to the final table, having the chip lead for a while as well. When the final table did start, I was on a short stack, but that did not last for long. I doubled up to 550k when my AK stood up against an AJ, then went over a million on this hand: I'm dealt 99 and raise to 48k from MP. The CO re-raises to 100k and I make the call. Flop comes 6 2 4 rainbow. I bet 125k and he calls. Turn Q. I check he bets something like 150k and I call. River another Q, I check, he pushes. I sit back and wait for a little bit, and decide he is on AK and make the call. Sure enough, AK is what he was holding, and I took down over a 1 million chip pot and leave him crippled. Things went slow for a while after that, but I reached heads up after I knocked two players out in the same hand when my 77 caught a set. HU went back and forth steadily for about 20 minutes, with both of us having over a million chips. He finally caught the upper hand and was able to knock me out.

I'm very happy with my play, two final tables in one week is no easy task. I got a nice cash out of this tournament, and had a good time playing it. Here is the screen shot, I'll see all of you later!

Back to Reality

Yesterday's great day has been followed by one of my lesser showings. I'm only down 4 buy-ins from $5 sng's, but I sure as heck ran bad today. I did get heads up in one 18 player sng, but was not able to take it down. All the other games I played went dry, and I'm down about $20 on the day. Not a big deal at all at these stakes, I wouldnt even to begin to worry about a losing streak until about $70-$80 in the hole. I'm still happy, my roll is still above $300, so plenty of room to go back to work tomorrow night and the weekend. Hopefully I'll have a late night tourney to report on tomorow night or Saturday morning, but until then I'll see you all later!

Big Day Today!

Well, after a few games that I played today I am up almost $80! I placed 1st in an 18 player sng for $36, then played a couple without cashing them. I then played the $3.30 HORSE tourney, but with no luck in it either. I then placed 2nd in a 45 player sng for almost $50, then finished 2nd in the 3rd round of the $2.20 Quintuple shootout for almost $16. I am very happy with my play today, it seemed like I could not miss. I love it when days like this come, and hopefully I'll hit a few more!

I Finally Did It

I got my first No Limit Hold'em tournament win today. It could not have came at a better time for me, I was struggling with my bankroll and was down to around $20. This win puts me over $317!!! I was pretty much dominating every table I played at after there were 200 players left, and was well above average going into the final table. I knocked out 7 players during the course of the final table, and hardly lost any chips at all. When heads up started, I had a 10 to 1 chip advantage. I raised on the button with A7o and he pushed with QJ. The board brought all blanks, and I won the pot and the tournament! I fully intend on following bankroll management from here on out, I almost lost everything with not following it, and I'm going to consider this my second chance. Well I'm out, here is a picture of the tournament lobby!!!

Sick with myself

Well, I preach, preach, and preach brm, and I have yet to follow it. I had a very nice bankroll going from where I started and I have lost all my winnings plus more. At this point I'm just hoping I can salvage my roll. I thought about just entering some big tourneys this weekend, but decided after my bust in the CCOP that my entire roll was not worth it, as I would not be able to play at all. So, I'm going to play NOTHING except $1 sng's until I can afford to play .02/.05 again. I know I can beat the 18 player sng's, and thats pretty much all I will be playing. I'm sick with myself for letting this happen, and it wont happen again

End of Week Update and Next Week's Goals

I think I did great for a short week of work, being up almost $40 for the week. Most of this is cash game profit as I did not really play any sng's, and did not get deep in many tournaments. I have began 8 tabling .02/.05 nlhe, which has brought my profit up quite a bit. Overall, I am very satisfied with my week of work.

For next this coming week, my goals are to continue 8 tabling .02/.05 and showing a profit, cash an mtt, and win the sng leaderboard. I know I have the skill to win the leaderboard, I just have to have a little bit of luck on my side as well to be able to do it. I'll see you all when I decide to make another update!

Havent been updating like I should

I'm putting a change to that right now lol. I played an 8 table cash session after I got home from work today and went down about $18. I was pretty mad about that so I stopped. I then had the CardsChat $3 buy-in tourney today, and I took 4th in it for $25, so I was back at $144 where I started lol. I then played another 8 table cash session, and brought in $18 more! Great session for me, everything was clicking. I'm going to post goals for the week and month this Sunday, and give a summary of my week, so check back then!