I’m still not really making any headway with my NL ring game lately. I think I’m gonna switch to playing some SNGs for a while. I played two $20+2s last night, at Party.

In the first one, I busted out on the first hand. Someone in EP raised to 100 (10/15 blinds, 800 starting stack), and I had KK. I didn’t really like raising half my stack, but not all of it, before the flop, so I just pushed all in. Somehow, he called with A8s, and hit an A on the flop. I watched the rest of it while I played my second one. He actually played pretty well after that, and went on to win it.

I don’t really remember many hands from the second one. I will be checking PokerTracker later, but I won it. I can’t recall any hand where I got all my money in without the best of it, and I miraculously managed to win every one of those hands. Once I was outflopped – I had A3 to J9, and he flopped a J, but I rivered an ace. I wasn’t even all-in that hand, my opponent was, and even if he doubled up, I’d still have had more chips.

Anyway, I think I’m gonna try to stick to these for a while and see how that goes. No eight-tabling it like Poker Nerd, though.

The WSOP is now into day three, and they started play today on the money bubble, with 560 paying and 569 starting play. As always, check out Pauly and Otis for the best updates, and LasVegasVegas for the best recaps and photos.

Also, don’t forget to check out Wil‘s great WSOP stories.

And, thanks to Joaquin for the great tip about the free WSOP 2004 DVDs.

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2005-07-11 23:19:30

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