No Respect For My Authorita

Well I put in some volume today but sadly the cards were not with me, so I am gonna have to abandon my quest for a sit-n-go leaderboard spot this week. I played 4 $5 9-player SNG's and finished 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 9th, so I gained 63 more points in that go-round along with a few dollars. In my first-place finish I was trailing in chips a bit when we got heads up (after having basically controlled play) but was able to eek out the win when I pushed 3-3, he called all-in short-stacked with King-ten off, and I spiked a 3 on the turn after a ten came on the flop. In the 9th place finish my QQ lost to his AK off all-in preflop only a few hands in. After that round I decided to play 3 $6 turbo SNG's and unfortunately failed to cash in any of them, finishing 9th to a donk who runner-runnered a flush after calling a big preflop raise with J7 suited, 8th with AK losing to 88 AIPF, and 4th after I tried to bluff a guy with air on a J-J-x-x-x board and he couldn't fold his limped KK. So now I would need to earn some 300 points in 8 SNG's which would require that I come in 1st five times and 2nd three times. Even for me, the low-limit SNG master, that's asking waaaay too much. At least I am up !

Day Two = Not So Good

I played two $5 sit-n-go's today, an 18-player and a 27-player, and while I managed to final table both of them I finished in 7th in both, winning no money and no leaderboard points. I was dealt pretty much nothing in both games, and was able to stay afloat in one of them solely on my ability to steal blinds with my change-raises and three-barrell bluff a passive guy who called my bets on the flop and turn and then folded to a large river bet when the flush came. Tomorrow I will try a couple of more games and if I fail to earn more points I'll be done with trying to crack the leaderboard this week.

It's Been a Looooong Time...

I haven't updated this blog for ages, primarily because I haven't had anything exciting to talk about. I've been playing a lot of 10c/25c cash games and low-level sit-n-go's and have had decent success but am still waiting for that big tourney breakthrough. This week Pokerstars is doubling the cash prizes they award the top finishers on the sit-n-go leaderboard and also doubling the cash being awarded in the Battle of the Planets weekly leaderboard tourney so, since sit-n-go's are my strength, I am going to concentrate on $5-6 sit-n-go's this week hoping to qualify. So far I am doing great. I played 2 $5 9-player SNG's today and was able to grab a first and a third, and also played an 18-player SNG and grabbed a 3rd-place finish there as well, so after 3 tourneys (of the 20 I need to play to qualify) I have 93 leaderboard points, which is an excellent result. I plan to update my results each day this week.
You will also notice that I have added a few clickable "ads" on the left side of this page. These are all for charitable organizations and you are encouraged to check them out, especially the rainforestsite, breast cancer site, and hungersite - all you need to do is click on the page that appears and you will be helping support several great causes at absolutely no cost but a few seconds of your time. GoodSearch is also an excellent site, and if you are planning to purchase something from an online retailer and go through GoodSearch they will donate a % of your purchase to charity. I use it for all my eBay and Amazon purchases.
Also, I would like to congratulate Shannon Shorr and SirWatts on their big victories this month. Links to their blogs are located in the left-hand column as well, and are worth a read. Two young guys who have had much success and will likely continue to pwn.