Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Stars Update and Event #8


Well guess I'll start things off on PStars. My little stars challenge has been going extremely well. I've been playing really well and getting alot of the bad players to put it in pretty bad against me. I blew through the .25/.50 level in 1300 hands and right now .50/$1 is going equally impressive. Ive played 767 hands and I'm up a little over 7 buyins. I have decided that I wont move up to $1/$2 until I get 20 buyins for that level or $2k. This is more of a comfort thing as I believe at those blinds the level of play is going to get better (although I could be wrong lol) and I really want to stay moving in the upward direction. Since I've started, I've played exactly 4500 hands and have averaged a 15.95 BB/100 over the three blind levels. Pretty impressive and I can only hope that I can keep it up.

FTOPS Event #8.. the tournament that wasn't. Man I was really looking forward to this event. With what I knew was going to be an $80k+ first place prize, I really thought I had a shot at it. The poker gods thought otherwise. I was out the first 20 minutes of the tournament and felt completely lost. I probably should've played a couple small buyin tournaments in the days leading up as I haven't played a tournament in about a week, and was a bit rusty. But to be fair I really just wasn't getting the flops. I had AAxx three times and all three times I ended up folding on the flop, and losing half of my stack in the process. Even my last hand was a bit of a setup as I'm never folding in that spot and it was virtually a coinflip. I was really surprised to see that guy jam with only top and bottom and no sort of redraw but when you're running bad these things happen.

Full Tilt in general really has been ticking me off as I'm in the middle of a downswing on there. My plans to play anymore FTOPS has been pretty much scrapped as I've lost a lil over $1200 in the past week. I'm gonna regroup and maybe take a couple days off from cash on there. I wish they had more PLO tourneys on there as I really only get to play two that have any sort of real cash prize. Downswings suck lol. Welp until next time. Shipshape.

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