After a great Christmas period, 2010 has started badly for me on the poker front, with cow"s rear-ends and banjo"s coming to mind but I thought it was all changing tonight and it did........sort of.
First of all, I decided to qualify for SkyPoker"s Luton event....£24 with a seat for every 5 players and with 46 players it represented great value at 9 seats.
With 15 left they moved this Irish.....errmmm....."nerbbbbb" back to my table. He had 16k where you only needed 10k average to stroll into a seat. All the other 5 of us had between 2500 and 4500 with the blinds at 150/300.
UTG he raises to 600 and the next guy shoves for his 2500. I look down at J-J and re-shove for 3600 so unless the madman has a MONSTER......why would he call.......but he did.......with K-9.
My heart sank on an 8-3-2 flop.....then a K turn and K river to put me out.
At the same time I was playing the $22 Stars tourney (1 re-buy and 1 add-on) which ended up with 938 runners and almost $50k in the prizepool.
I encountered some of the top online players in the world during the next 5 hours but after limping into the money, I doubled up to approx 112k and was 20th with 68 left........then ........my interenet connection collapsed !!
35 minutes later I got back on and found 33 left, with me 31st with 66k and 3 of the top 5 in chips on my table!!
I eventually went out 24th for just over $200 but was so frustrated after working my way back into some sort of form only to have it snatched away by Virgin Broadband !
Still, at least my computer screen is still in one piece as 20 years ago I would almost certainly have put my fist through it !
Anyway, there is light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully, a good showing at tomorrow night"s BCPC Week 3 will set me up nicely for next weekend"s big team event.......and at least my computer can"t pack-up tomorrow night.
