Day at the Tournament Tables

Well as I have said in previous posts, the grind at the micro cash tables hasn't gone so well lately. I decided yesterday that I needed a break, but being the poker degenerate that I am that doesn't mean stopping playing! Instead I fired up good old PKR and spent most of Sunday playing a few tournaments.

I started out in the little Pyramid at 11am, I managed to finish 37/325 for a $5 return on the $3.45 start. Not bad  to say I was a bit rusty, I played well and felt good so decided to crack on and play a few more. I played 3 more reg tourneys for just over $1 entry with no return, but still felt I played well. The problem in the micro tournaments is the standard is horrible so you spend the latter stages of them basically shoving or folding unless you build up a big stack early doors. But they are very beatable patience is key, I hope I can take that back to the micro cash tables it's what has been letting me down lately!

So come mid afternoon it starts to get interesting, after playing PKR forum favourite Mattgr77 in a HU PLO sit and go and spanking his arse (just kidding Matt was a good game and I got the run of the cards!) I fired up the Nickel Mania rebuy and the Tiny Terminator. The terminator was the usual shove fest to try to get the bounties early doors so patience again, I managed to double up after the first break and took out a couple of bounties to get $4 back virtually paying for the $4.40 entry. I went pretty well and managed a finish of 29/302 for a $8 win in total so not bad all in all.

Things were really interesting in the Nickel Mania Rebuy where I was playing pretty solid and getting a nice run of cards early doors. I only re bought 4 times and got the add on so the tourney officially cost me $2.02. Now I don't normally play rebuys but I know you have to build a stack early on so I cracked on, waited for good cards and got it in a few times against some seriously bad shoves and managed to get to about 5th at the break with around 20,000 chips. I managed to carry on being in the top 20 throughout the tourney and made the final table. I got lucky once in the tourney, had just over 8bb with 12 left and shove the button with QK suited as a semi steal. The SB woke up with AQ and I caught a king which saved me. The same guy got his luck back on the FT tho shoving AJ into my AQ only for a straight to hit the board and a split pot!

After 4 1/2 hours I managed to bink the whole tourney for a return of $120 which is very nice from a $2 buy in! I really enjoyed playing a few tourneys for a change and its always nice to bink one, all in all after a few beers on Saturday and running into an old school friend who I haven't seen for years and a good poker day yesterday it was a cracking weekend.

Satisfying weekends work

Well I have just got to work, it's bloody freezing so I thought I would write a blog post to take my mind off it! I have had a good weekend both on and off the tables. I went to my mate at work's leaving do on Friday night in Sheffield. Bit sad to see him go but he has a good job, and we saw him off in style! Saturday was also a boozy night at one of my best friends house. Lots of beer and some weird green crap that i kept getting shoved into my hand, pretty drunk but a cracking night. I felt surprisingly well Sunday morning but my mate was laid up in bed all day, lightweight is all I can say dude!

Ok so back to my weekend on the tables, firstly I am impressed I even found the time lol but it was worth it. I managed to play around 1000 hands at NL10 on PKR and won about 3 BI's which was good going. I felt really good, I feel I have my discipline back now and I managed to grind away and get away from anything marginal which has been losing me money recently. In fact I only made one play I was annoyed with trying to catch an agro fish with a marginal hand and got stung for 50BB but apart from that it was a good couple of sessions.

I also had a stab in a donkament, playing the PLO8 $4.40 game on Sunday night. I am getting quite into PLO and PLO8 but I do better in tourneys than cash ATM as my game isn't totally great. I managed to finish 4th out of 110 runners so pretty proud of that. I could have done better but ran into a guy who was in total god mode so can't complain.

Anyway that's my weekend, I am going to figure out how to post HH on here then will try to get a few for my next post, cheers for now and thanks for reading

Hi All New blog here!

Hello this is the first post of my new blog on here. I have been keeping a blog on the forum at the poker site PKR in a thread but I decided to start on here and hopefully make it a bit interesting and hit a wider audience. I will try to post every week to blog about my poker journey as I (hopefully) move up the cash stakes on PKR. I am working hard to improve my game at the minute, I have just joined a training site (Pokerzion) and hopefully my game will improve.
I would love it if you would like to join me on my journey, all comments on my posts are appreciated, I look forward to cracking on and getting this blog up and running!