By DeuceSeven on February 17th, 2008 (more posts by author)

I played 8 mtts last night. I cashed in 3 of them, I was so close to a 4 digit score. I finished 60th in the ftp 24/24 for $69, 160/1179 of the stars 50/50 for $83, 17/1013 of the ftp 50/50 for $355. I essentially busted from the ftp 50/50 when I raised AQ 2.5x with 14bbs in mp. I got called by a donkey who kept calling me and I'd have to lay down when my AQ, KQ didn't connect in 2 other pots. The flop was J8x. I over bet the pot ai as vs this guy it was goin in whether he knew it pf or not. The guy calls with JTs. I don't mind his flop call as my hand screams my 2 big cards missed, I just don't understand calling a 2.5x raise with JTs with 13bbs.

One of my friends said I shove with an M of around 10 around the final table, I'm going to rethink my position on this as I like to make standard raises until I get to 12/13 bbs. Maybe it's not so bad if I have a couple of idiots that will call me light. All in all I'm pretty happy with my play, it's so sick that in the ftp 50/50 there were about 9 good opr players and only a few made the final table. Once we got down to 30 players in the ftp 50k I took a stab from the blinds 2x on flops and had to fold, raised KQ, AQ and missed them both, cbet one of the hands had to fold them both. I only won hands that didn't see a flop or I was short and shoved pf.

I made a deal with myself, I'd take $550 of money from out of my roll and use that to pay for half of a $55. My roll is around 2k, so basically it gives me a chance to play 20 of these donk filled 50ks and a shot at a very nice score. Out of 5 50/50s I've cashed in 3, and I finished 13th and 17th in 2 that I cashed. I'm just in need of a bit more luck to make the ft in one of these. Even a 2k score would be a really huge shot to my bank roll.