Milestone

Well I had an o.k. session tonight. I started off with a pot limit Badugi, 60FPP step satellite and a Sunday 200K satellite first. The Badugi tournament didn't go as well as my last one. I doubled up once and won a few other small pots but never made it above 4K in chips. I ended up going out in 40th out of 104 with top 16 getting paid. The step satellite didn't go so well either. I was card dead the entire tourney and when I finally pushed (with a stack of 950) w/A-K I got called by big stack w/2-4 and he paired up. I went out in 36th with top 10 getting tickets. The Sunday 200K satellite went a lot better. I didn't get any cards for quite a while and just stayed out of the way and preserved my chips. I finally got a good run of cards almost an hour into it and doubled up and then tripled up when my A-A ran against K-K & Q-Q. That put me as chip leader with around 60 people left and 27 getting tickets to the 200K. At that point I was content to preserve my stack and stay out of the way of other aggressive medium stacks that could hurt me some. I had one nut on my right that had a nice medium stack and was really aggressive!! She ended up with a stack bigger than mine but wouldn't back off..she ended up busting out in around 25th!! Unreal…some people don't understand satellites.. I ended up with a ticket but I had no intention of playing in the 200K..that tourney lasts like 12 hours if you run deep. So I unregistered and got my $11 tourney dollars which is why I did it to begin with. I tried another 200K satellite while that one was winding down, but I got burned pretty early when my A-K was run down by A-4 when he made 2 pair. I then switched over to my $5.20 DON's and ran 4 for 5. I was especially proud of my final DON that I was in. Runners were especially bad tonight with only 1 or 2 other positive ROI at each table. To my left was a -25% roi guy. We were at the 25-50 blind level and picked up A-Q in late position and I haven't played a pot yet! There was one limper in front and I raised it to 200 and the Cowboy (it was in his name) thought a few seconds and pushed all in. For some reason I got a fast read on this guy and knew he was weak. As bad as he was I knew if he had a decent pair he would have just called and if he had a top pair he would have min raised me and not push all in and maybe chase me away. Even though at this point in the tourney I was screaming FOLD I went ahead and called. He had J-10 and then flopped the nut straight. I knew better even if I knew I was ahead it wasn't by that much since both his cards were alive. Well that left me with 240 chips and still 8 people in the tourney. Luckily 3 others were around 1,000 chips and the blinds were about to go up to 50-100. I wasn't giving up yet!! I folded the next few hands and then in the big blind I pushed all-in and of course was called since it was only double the blind. My hand was ahead and held up. Then a medium stack got frisky and fell in love with a hand and was busted by the Cowboy again (he was running very lucky!). Now I had 700 chips and the other 2 small stacks had around 800-900 each.. I still had a chance… then in early position I pick up A-9 which I normally auto fold, but with my chip count and the big blind of 150 coming to me next I pushed. I was called by the big blind with A-4. I was very happy until the board paired twice and we tied with our Ace kickers. That sucked!!! Instead of doubling up to around 1900 I was still at 775 instead. I was o.k. though since 2 other stacks were at 500 & 700. I had to fold both blinds since other people shoved and I was down to 500 chips now and the blinds jumped to 150-250. My lucky donkey Cowboy that put me in this position to begin with saved me. Both short stacks pushed all in and Cowboy called. Of course he had the worse hand of the three but in his usual fashion he ran them both down and both were busted. Whew…another win..but it was close. That win did push me past a milestone (maybe only temporarily!! LOL) $200 BANKROLL!!!
Dave

Starting BR: $187
Ending BR: $205