25 K Final Table

Haven't played an awful lot since the last post, a few outings messing about at PL Omaha at the micro cash tables (finding more evidence that Russians are truly mental) until last night, when I fired up a couple of tournaments, one of which was the 25K on FTP. Although I typically ran awful in some of the smaller tournaments last night, I ran like Usain Bolt in the 25K itself and ended up like this:


Frustrating to final table it and be the first man out, but I had been short for a fair while. Can't complain about being fairly card dead towards the end after some suckouts in the first 2 hours - (88 > KK AIPF, AJ > KQ on a q high flop), but I did lose a fairly critical race with about 30 left which would have seen me take the chip lead at around 500K (QQ < AK \ AJ all in pre in a 3 handed pot). In hindsight, I probably played a little too tight, but anytime I tried to make a blind steal or a move on a pot, I was faced with insta-allins from at least 2 players. Maybe I was being too obvious, or maybe my timing just sucked. Meh.

Might try and squeeze in some of the MSOP events next weekend, and I've also satellited into the 5000 FTP freeroll on 21 June. Probably no more play until then though, and won't be playing live until next month at the earliest.

All the best,

PK

Intro

Well, the purpose of this blog was to discuss my online poker exploits - given that these have been non existent for the last year or so might explain why it's taken me this long to actually post anything! But the exams are all over now, so back to the virtual tournament felt I go..

Anyway, might as well start off with some good news.. a tournament win, and of all things, it was a Pot Limit Omaha tournament!




Only small, but it's a start.. played well in the tournament, got a few horrible beats which left me crippled, then roared back to make the final table and hit a good run of cards at the right time. Final 3 and heads up I was pretty aggressive and had good reads on my opponents and managed to take it down..

A few other small cashes to report, nothing major.. one good thing is that the only way I'm leaving tournaments seems to be on bad beats - whilst it's frustrating it must mean I'm doing something right!

One other thing I'm hoping to do more of is play more live events round Ireland - this is the other purpose of the blog, to visit live poker venues and see what they are like. Will hopefully have more of this sort of thing to report in future posts.

GL All,

PK