Yeah baby!

     In my previous post I told you all how I was ITM in a $5K guarantee on Stars and maybe I'll be posting on how I went deep? Well ladies and gentlemen, I went deep. Took 2nd for $600!

     What a night. I initially entered the tourney to kill some time before bed, and wasn't expecting to make it that far into the money. The payouts (as in all MTT) were very heavy on the top end. For example, 9th place was only $45 compared to $800 for the winner. I played a tight, solid game, got paid off big on most of my big hands, and coasted until there were 18 left. Then I started hitting a few snags. JJ lost to A9 aipf, taking 1/3 of my stack. Then all my steal attempts were met with 3-bet shoves from the opposition. By the time we were down to 12 players, I was well below average and sitting 10 out of 12. Still I had a good stack to blind ratio and plenty of patience. I doubled up with 10 players left to put me in 7th with QQ vs AK. Squeaked by the FT bubble with 8BB's. Again the ladies were kind to me and I doubled up again vs A4. (Don't ya just love being called with rag Aces?)

     After I doubled up, I went on a tear. I was not intending to just cash, I was going for the win. I got aggro! 3-betting 4-betting, squeeze plays all over the place. There was one poor player who was on the BB every time I had the Button and I pounded the shit out of him. Every time he stood up to me I had JJ or better. I'd beat him down to almost nothing, he'd double up through another player and I'd beat him down again. Play went from 9  handed to 3 handed pretty quickly. It was probably almost 2 hours, but it felt like 20 mins to me.

     The overall chipleader finally woke up by the time we were 3 handed, but suffered a cooler when he ran his trip 10's into the FH of our other opponent. Soon enough we were heads-up. This didn't last more than half an hour. I was at a 4-1 chip disadvantage. I worked it back to a 2-1 over the course of a couple dozen hands, and was feeling pretty good about my chances to take it down when I ran JJ into KK. K on the flop and it was good night. So @ 5:30am I was $598.75 richer. Had a smoke, took a leak and went to bed. I was still kinda wound up and stoked over the cash that I just layed awake in bed until my wife got up for work.

     So with that last win, and despite of my horrible downswing that I eluded to in earlier posts, I am now sitting at $899.70 profit overall, over 346 SNG and MTT's. So far, so good.