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MTT’s yesterday

April 7, 2007 on 7:44 am | In Poker, League games |

I managed to play a number of MTT’s yesterday and I didn’t play too bad. First up I was in a $10 625 player No Limit Holdem game on PokerStars which has to be one of the tightest tournaments that I’ve played in for a while I tried to make some moves on my table to try and counter this but I always seemed to come against a premium hand. I just scraped into the money but bubbled on the level where the money was due to go up.

I then went to Hollywood Poker to play a $10 MTT $2000 Gtd tourney.  For the 2nd time in 3 weeks my PC suffered a malfunction when it went to load up the table and by the time I got back into the game 20 mins had gone. I had only blinded off about 100 chips so it wasn’t too bad but in comparision to the previous game this was quite loose and I lost a few key hands when I had the best of it in multi way pots (aargh!) and then came the great suck out! Oh well never mind this happens and we just have to move on to the next tourney!

The next game was the weekly WAPT London event at PokerStars where a handful of us play each week. Anyway we were early in the tournament and I have AK which I have raised 4BB and I have been called. The flop is a nightmare with QQJ but I need to get rid of at least one or both of these players if I want to win the pot so I put in a half pot raise. Everyone calls. What could they have? I’m thinking that if the Q or J are out there that there would have been a reraise at this point so I think that they are just on a draw. The turn brings a 10 which gives me the nut straight and I’m pretty sure at least one of the others is on the second straight but there is only one way to find out and that is to stick the chips in and sure enough there are 3 of us all in. The hands come AK (nut straight) and K9 (second straight) but we are dead in the water against 10 10 who now has a Full House!

To try and take my mind off that carnage I played an $8 PL Omaha tourney on PokerStars which was a bit wild but I managed to cash in this one as well (18th out of 170+ players) which is the first time I have ever cash in an Omaha MTT so I quite with this one even if it was only for $17.

I’m gonna try to get into the Mansion $100k later today and there is also The Online Poker League event at PokerStars which is Razz. I just hope that everyone else is as bad as me on that or I have no chance!!