An MTT Cash And Other News

Update -

I played a couple of tourneys recently – a 5.50 NL and a 4.40 Limit – this weekend They’re kind of high for my BR at this point, but I had the time to play. I cashed in the Limit tourney:

PokerStars Tournament #47726xxx, Limit Hold’emBuy-In: $4.00/$0.40
405 playersTotal Prize Pool: $1620.00
Tournament started – 2007/04/xx – xx:00:00 (ET)

Dear Me,

You finished the tournament in 36th place. A $8.10 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

I’m a little disappointed in the outcome though. I was in the top 10 for a large portion of the tournament. The blinds moved up quickly, and I played a couple of hands that were questionable at a new table, so with about 10k and blinds of 600/1200, I felt the pressure to play some hands. 99 in MP for a raise, and 85o in the SB for a call with 2 others in the pot. I will grab the hand histories later and go over what I felt I did wrong.

In the NL tourney, I was in contention for a while, and then ran into a set vs. set situation that didn’t knock me out, but I never recovered. (I may post the set vs. set confrontation when I get a chance. While I don’t know if I could have gotten away from it or not, because I had the button, looking back, I wonder if I could have saved myself some chips.) I tried to be patient and did double up a couple times (one was a suckout where I was dominated 3-1), but in the end, I pushed all in with AQo vs a raise, a guy called, and the original raiser called. One had AKo, the other AJo, the guy with the J won the hand, and it did me in.

In other news, after swinging a deal with my poker pal Justin from grindingforpennies.blogspot.com, I’ve got $12.50 on Full Tilt. Justin highly recommends the SnG’s on FT, so I’m going to try them out and see if I can get something started there. I’ve got enough for like ten $1 MTT SnG’s. Wish me luck…

BR ~ I think it’s in the mid $70s between the 2 sites, but I haven’t tallied it in a few days.