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Now that January is out of the way, I've got a bit more time on my hands. I haven't been playing that much but instead trying to increase my knowledge by watching various videos and reading some books.
Five Card Draw has been my game of choice so far but it hasn't been going that well as I've been taking a bit of hammering at the 50c/$1 limit which is not so good. But my win rate is still about $2 an hour and that's single tabling.
On the tournament front, again pretty quiet. The odd small stakes SNG here and there. And of course, the BritBloggerment on Sunday evenings.
I managed to win last night's BritBloggerment bringing my total number of wins to 2. Performance wise, I thought it was the best I had played for a long time. I was focused and patient throughout. They say it takes a bit of luck to win a tournament and I did need some early on. I was getting a bit low on chips, around 10BB left. I'm in the blinds and see a raise from Kat in late position. I've got K6s. I thought about for a bit and decided to resteal-push. Kat calls with AJo so I'm not that far behind. The turn bring my King and I double up.
I can't really remember many big hands from then until the bubble and even the bubble is hazy. (Will definitely need to go over the hand history). Kronsdat was the unlucky player to miss out on the money which left Mauzj, myself and, chipleader by a huge margin, Hammerheid. Mauzj took a huge chunk out of Hammerheid's stack when his pair of nines flopped a set against Hammerheid's Aces. There were some more big hands but again my memory is a bit hazy. I had Hammerheid allin with my Aces against his Queens and won. And I lost a pot large where Hammerheid extracted a whole lot of value with his flopped full house.
Anyway, Mauzj was to go out in third and it was me and The Hammerheid heads up.
I started to turn up the pressure and was able to gradually increase my lead until my sevens held up all-in against Hammerheid's 98o and $47.50 ended up in my PokerStars account. :-)
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