My desire to play some poker on Friday night was scuppered as I kept falling asleep in front of my laptop after a couple of overnights during the week, I therefore ended up playing very loose in the tournament I registered for and went out quite quickly. In hindsight I should have stayed clear and caught up with my sleep, but let my own keenness override the sensible decision.
The majority of the weekend was spent working which again curtailed my aspirations for poker at the weekend, returning home on Sunday just in time to watch the Merseyside derby and endure another draw at the hands of the blues, form needs to improve quickly for Liverpool to continue the challenge until the end of the season.
So at last I was settled in front of my laptop on Sunday ready to play some poker, I registered for two MTT on BSQ, $6k gtd f/o and $35k gtd rebuy. The $6k also had lukybugur and Chipaccrual in the field although I didn't come across them on the tables. I ended up struggling with dead hands and eventually went out around 250th.
The $35k rebuy was now my last chance and I plodded along slowly trying to avoid a rebuy whilst keeping my stack in contention, this was a struggle as time after time my cards gave me very little and restricted my ability to participate in pots. AK ended up being my saviour and at the end of the first hour and add-on I was sitting on around 6500 chips. The second hour was again a challenge hitting very little and keeping my stack around the same level, my stack had reduced and I was sitting with 1600 the blinds at 300/600 and I was sitting in the BB, I was dealt Q5os and just had to try my luck, maximising my return if I hit. Fortunately, four spades hit the table and I lucked a flush, which took me up 7000 in chips, I got called a fish and laughed it off.
I then hit AK twice and pushed, doubling up both times and I was now sitting with 40k chips and in the money, I managed to steal a few blinds to keep myself going but was generally card dead, I then had AK dealt again and pushed as I was struggling to stay afloat, two callers and the pocket 7's hit a 7 on the flush and my challenge was over, an enjoyable 3 and a half hours for $75 profit as I finished in 70th.
Now in to my last week at work and looking forward to getting to Friday now.
