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.
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