By ckingusc on January 25th, 2008 (more posts by author)

UB continues to love me as I played their new $150, 20k guarenteed last night at 9pm. The field had 127 entrants and im torn on how soft i want to say it was. There were definitely a number of fish who only play on UB and played very very poorly but there were also plenty of names i recognized in the field. Either way I was shortstacked for pretty much the entire tournament. One thing i like about UB is that you can really run over alot of players on the short stack and they will not call you when they should. I ended up chipping up nicly on the money bubble (20 players) and using that to maintain my stack on into the FT.

I had the annoyance of having mkind on my left who is a solid player and had the CL. However he kind of played strait forward vs me in that I would raise in LP on the bubble and he'd jam on me when i did which is my own fault cause i knew he would do that (and thus what i mean by strait forward). Either way I would enter the final table on an average stack with about 25bb. There were several people with 10bb or less and they would all quickly drop out. It got down to 5 handed pretty quick with myself in 4th. I ended up getting a nice double up when a player raised the button and i jammed A7dd from the BB. He tanked and called with KQo and I held up to win the hand and he was crippled and busted the next hand.

3 handed went for a little while until mkind busted the other guy winning a race with AQ > 88 for a 5-1 CL vs me HU. However i am proud to say i think i played very very well HU vs him and ended up grinding him up to a 2-1 chip disadvantage for myself before the final hand where he raised, i reraised pot with KQo and he jammed. I was pretty sure he had been looking for a spot to 4 bet jam on me and it didnt require a premium hand. I made the call and he had 22 and it was a race however he flopped a set and i ended up drawing pretty much dead.

So while not another victory it was a nice $3200 score and more UB money for team WaffleCrush