MTT Night - In Running + April Final Figures

7:30pm:-

Started 30 minutes ago and already bust one mtt losing with overcards and flush draw vs top pair. Was a loyalty one though so no physical cash lost.

Entered another 8 mtts from 7:30pm through to 9:45pm so i hope its a long night and will try to update here if anything gets interesting and im not too hectic. About $1,000 worth entered so could be a big swing one way or the other. Main concern is the thunder and lightning causing me problems, although none yet.

7:39pm:-

1st power cut of night outted me for 2-3minutes. The thunder quite literally shook my sunroom too, must have been right overhead !!!

9:00pm:-

bust the smallest loyalty one, nothing too interesting in others yet, 5 going at mo.

9:55pm:-

arrgh busts galore and just lost a pot to a 2 outer to go huge on one of the mtts left. Also lost a flip to have gone 4th/20 in the 60 entrants $215 pl hi lo ....yuk. Left in 8 game just started $215 , $75 pl hi lo just started, $162 pl hi lo and $216 pl hi lo. Cash games alongside not too bad, few hundred up today, prob start em up again now im down to 4 mtts.

11pm:-

3 left. not doing as well on 3 lots of cash either :(

12:06am

2 left bubbled the $216 9th paid 8 :(
2/7 pays 5 in the $162 amazing how loose it is despite the bubble
yoyo on the 8game 5/11 pays 5 at mo

1am:-

cashed in 2.
card dead 3/3 in the hi lo pl $162 but its turning into a crapshoot so hopefully get lucky
8game wide open basically equal 5th but also equal 2nd / 5 left

In the hole for about $1,800 today before these cashes.
$1,280 minimum cashes at mo

2am:-

finished 2nd in that $162 for $1,250. Good but disappointed as was only 30k vs 100k HU but turned it right around but couldnt finish them off.

still in other, been lucky as u need to be at end of these and sitting 1/3

2:04am:-

luckboxed that on 2-7 triple draw and limit holdem to take the 8 game down 1st/30 for $2,400.
NOTE: only played 2-7 triple draw once before i think and that was a couple of years ago. read up on rules and strategy earlier and it seemed to pay off !!!

Really nice to finally take one down, ive been knocking on the door so much but you do seem to need a lot of luck in these mixed games final tables to win them as your stack can go up and down like mad.

April final figures done, i wont review it as i basically was -£1,500 down 2 weeks ago and you can read the blog to see how it turned around if you are bored.

Final profit at £5,286. I really hope to do the same or more in May to set me up for bigger stakes cash and mtts in Vegas at the WSOP.

Was In Limbo

Not really been feeling it this week. Level or slight loss each day until today. Almost didnt play today but glad i did as ran very well relative to the stakes i was on. Was +£3,200 before today but now sitting on +£4,072 with just 2 days of April left. Im not sure if/how much i'll play tommorrow but im pretty sure im gonna stay in Saturday and play a lot of games to end the month. Prob should have tommorrow off, i know i've overdone it on the poker front the last couple of weeks and dont wnna find myself hating the game again.

Steady Sunday

Just finished a 10 hour session with a mix of multis and cash games across different disciplines. 3 mtt cashes in total, not sure how many i entered, maybe 7 or 8. 1 was tiny $80ish in a fpp stars 10,000 players one. The other 2 were a lot closer to chunkier stuff but also could have been worse so overall its been a very steady night.

4th/45 $215 horse for $900. This is the same weekly mtt i finished 3rd/41 in last week as well.
6th/100 $215 NL hi lo for $1,050.

Done ok on cash games alongside all night as well making about £500 from them.

On the night im +£1,180 and that takes me to new peak of +£3,388 for April. Bring on the 7pm FTOPS 6 max pl hi lo tommorrow.

3rd FTOPS Cash In A Row

Again no big luck at business end and i just crept into the cash finishing 20/166 for a $240 return on my $216 investment in the 2am omaha hi lo limit game. Highlight was leading with 50 left but alas my luck deserted me after and people just kept spiking river gutshots (twice) for 2 big pots. Never mind its still another confidence booster even if its kept me awake until 6:40am when i would have slept 2-3hours ago otherwise.

Seem to have run good on cash alongside after losing 500$ i think im up around that amount. April sits at new peak of +£2208. Not sure if i will play tommorrow or hit the town.

FTOPS Almost Final Table

Arrrrrgh cant get the luck at the business end once again. This time ive finished 10th/235 in the 7 game mixed $322 FTOPS. It was sooooooo wide open and my most hopeful was sitting 5th/11 (a double at that point would have put me joint top) but not to be when i lost 4 pots in a row to bust :(( for a paltry $1012.50 . Was fun but did go on forever taking 7 hours exactly until my untimely departure. $20k,$13k,$9k top 3 tonight :(

Think im off to check when the mixed games are on the WSOP schedule, i think ive made a big case for me playing the horse and/or 7 game again. Before tonight i had only played 7 game once before in wsop 2009 but i seem to be more experienced (in most of the games) and patient in these nowadays.

April +£1,657 .....hmmm could been so much more. Next stop could be a 2am start tommorrow for the $216 omaha hi lo limit FTOPS. Ill be tired and drunk though so its prob 50/50 at mo.