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I played slightly more poker last week due to the fact that the expiry of my Stars Battle of the Planets reload bonus is looming. By my calculations I need to earn about 35FPPs every day from now until July 9th to get my $80. This isn't factoring in my holiday in Germany at the end of June or my cousin's wedding or various visits to friends so I really need to get a move on. So I've been shortstacking 0.50c/$1 NL full ring. I'm ahead of schedule in terms of FPPs but slight down in terms of cash. My table selection strategy, namely sit at the table with the biggest average pot, is paying dividends when it comes to accumlating FPPs due to the number of donkeys who are willing to gamble their large stacks on marginal hands but is not so helpful as the same donkeys are quite capable of calling my 20BB all-ins with pish. For example, I'm UTG with AKo. I've been quite cagey with AKo in early so I limp in. There are a couple of other limpers and then the loose aggro big blind bumps it up to 8BB or so. Now given this guy's play so far I reckon there's a very good chance he's at it. There's around 12BB in the pot and I've only got 18BB left so I push all in. The limpers fold, the big blind calls with K4s and hits his four on the flop. Rebuy, please. As I've said before, Domination - What is it good for? If I wasn't so risk averse, I'd be tempted to buy in for the max and nut-peddle. It might get me a bigger payday against these donks. BritBloggerment rolled around on Sunday as normal but it wasn't good for me. At the first break, I was top 3 after taking a race against Rosie and winning with JJ. First hand after the break, it's folded to me in the small blind and I min raise with KJo hoping to take an easy blind from TanOrpheus who hadn't sat back in. Just before I pressed the raise button, Tan reappeared. He re-raised me a large amount. Now what I should have done was cut my losses but no, I decided he was full of shit and called. The flop came all low cards missing me entirely. I checked, Tan bet, I folded. What should have been an easy blind steal turned into me losing over a third of my stack. My stack then dwindled and decided to push 12BB with a pair of twos from early/mid. But Tan had woken up to a pair of tens and after a bit of a pause he called. Goodnight Vienna. Ho hum. But I've still a positive ROI so I'm happy!
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