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Friday, February 10, 2006

On a Roll

This has been one hell of a week for me. Sunday night, I final tabled the FTP $16k, and finished 8th for a nice score. Monday night, I came in second in the $8k for my biggest tournament cash ever.

Then last night, I took second in the $16k to beat that, with a $2710.80 cash. 2nd out of 753. I almost didn’t play, because I had no tokens and failed to get one earlier yesterday. $26 isn’t too much, but I like getting into the tournaments cheaper. I’m still going to be playing the token SNGs every now and then, and I think I have to keep playing the guaranteed prize pool tournaments at FTP.

There were a few memorable hands from the tournament, but for the most part it was just my good hands holding up, winning races, and not getting all my chips in behind. I never did that until the last hand, after getting completely run over again heads up. I couldn’t flop a pair or even get any paint. 5 and 6 high was all I was getting heads up, and then missing the flop. I seriously need to work on my heads up play. The big hands of the tournament for me were all good folds. AJo, three times. Late in the tournament, with my M hovering around 6 I had to let it go because the action ahead of me said I was beat. Every time, it was a good laydown, and I would have busted had I called.

Some other big hands were 33 from the button holding up against the big blinds A2, AK beating 99 at the final table, and then QQ holding up against KQ to bust the player in third and get heads up.

While playing the $16k last night, I also played in the WWdN: BG Semi-Open. 50 players signed up, in honor of BG. For those that don’t know, he just had surgery, and will have some serious medical bills coming soon. For more information on how to help him out, check out Pauly’s post. I final tabled in this tournament, too, taking 8th for $22.50 on my $11.

Four final tables in one week. Tonight, I make my first appearance at Murderer’s Row.