Well, I dont know what happened to me in Vegas, but I"ve been on fire in November since I got back.
I won 10K by winning one of the daily biggies on PartyPoker. I then won 1K+ by finishing 3rd in a $33 rebuy and was dominating the FT when I had my connection cut twice at crucial stages.
December has started well also. I qualified for the monthly million on Party and despite various efforts, found myself having to play in a $640 comp WTF!! I finished 161st from 1600 runners cashing for the minimum $1300. Not a bad return on a $70 sat but was really gutted. Without wishing to sound conceited, the standard was very average considering the buyin. A quick peek on OPR and I could see that most of the field were qualifiers and it was amazing how easy the bubble was to abuse with most on my table looking to just cash. So I was gutted when having doubled up without showing a card during the bubble period, that I went out soon after with a QQ v KK cooler.
The APAT 6 max was awesome fun. I was peeling more flops than I can ever remember, missing or hitting marginally and soon found myself down to half stack. I then did something that Stewart has never done and won with AJ v JonMW"s AK. the betting went raise by MW, reraise by me OTB, call by MW. Flop TQK for the nuts. MW paid me off with his TPTK and I never looked back after that. (i.e. kept getting them in bad and winning!!
) Poor Dewi doubled me up when he got funky with T8 v my KK flopped a T then turned a T. I obviously stacked off with my overpair much to Dewi"s delight, only for a steve redfernesque 2 outertastic K to hit on the river and send me into the top 3. I also bust mary who was v ul to limp in with SCs and hit a very disguised 2 pair holding 56 on a 56K board v my 47 in the BB. I raised the SB, mary min reraised which gave me a good price to chase (ok I fished it
) and hit my 3 on the turn. Money goes in and my hand held. I eventually got busted AT v 99 in a 4 handed button v SB battle to finish 8th for a little return and more importantly 2 points in the rankings to put me second (I think). I surely cant run this good for another two tourneys but why not??
Lastly, I have deposited a "reasonable" ammount of my BR into Paddy power poker with the express aim of qualifying for the irish open, which is being played over the easter weekend, meaning I will be able to play this. I always check the GUKPT and EPT schedules when they come out and am exasperated that both these tours know when the school holidays are because they never fecking organise a tourney during one FML!! At least the Irish open should have a record number of teachers playing in it!! SO far I have a "less than reasonable" ammount left in my account as the result of a load of donked sats. still plenty of time to qualify for this though.
Anyone else fancy this? (apart from Dewi, who I"ve already clocked at the tables)
