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Once again, life has been getting in the way of poker playing.
In May, I managed the grand total of 14 heads up SNGs. Mind you, I won 71% of them, i.e, 10 and lost 4 which was nice.
That wee run was fortuitous as I had a bit of downswing after my last post and at one point was back into negative territory winnings-wise at the $10 level. I was playing terribly and tilting badly. I came across one guy, Ali 65, who is, without doubt, the worst player I have ever came across. Sharkscope has his ROI as -52%. I think I lost three in a row to him. The tilt was unbearable.
Anyhoo, I've recovered now.
Scores on the doors:-
$10 Heads Up SNGS
Played: 146
ITM%: 54.8%
ROI%: 4.4%
Not much else to report poker-wise.
I played a SCOOP event and cashed although looking back I wonder why I bothered. I won an $11 SCOOP ticket in the World Blogger Championship a while back. Browsing the SCOOP schedule I realised that there really weren't many tournaments that I would be able to use the ticket for. For most of the tournaments the "low" tournament entry was $22 or higher and of the ones that had an $11 low, the start times were terrible for a UK based player. The only real option was the $11 Pot Limit 5 Card Draw. I have played quite a bit of 5 Card Draw and, in fact, it's a game I really enjoy. But it's all been fixed limit. Pot limit would be new to me. But it was my only option so if I was going to use the ticket, that would be the tournament.
Having decided that, I then almost missed the tournament. If I recall correctly, it was 7pm start on a Wednesday evening. On that particular Wednesday I had decided to walk home from work (as part of my "fitness" regime - 5 miles and it takes me about 1 hour 20 minutes). I get in the door at 6.30, knackered, and the first thing I do after feeding the dogs is to have a bath. Now, the bath is where I do most of poker learning. My little netbook gets perched on the side of the bath and I lie back, have a soak, while watching a poker video or two and hoping that I don't fall asleep and drown.
So I'm in the bath, watching a video from SNG Grinders and I suddenly realise that the 5 Card Draw tournament starts at 7pm. Now I've got a dilemma. Do I curtail my bath, get out and play the tournament on the main laptop? Or do I stay in the bath and play it on the netbook? Given that I wasn't long in the bath and I wasn't that bothered about the tournament I decided to stay in the lovely, warm water and play it from there.
So I fire up PokerStars and get myself registered about 5 minutes before the start. At that point there were about 2200 players registered. Not too many, I thought, maybe about 4 or 5 hours to the final table. But, alas, I had not factored in the effect of the extended late registration period. As I played from the bath, the number of players grew and grew, getting past 2500, 3000, 3500 and then 4000 basically doubling the field. My estimate of 4 or 5 hours was now looking a bit optimistic and I seriously considering just sitting out. But just before the first break and I had managed to grow my stack quite considerably and was in a position to make a good go of it. The first break came around. I closed down the netbook, got out the bath and rejoined the tournament on the main laptop in the living room.
Despite this being my first experience of Pot Limit 5 Card Draw, I was doing quite well. And as the tournament progressed I was keeping my stack above average and got through the money bubble without any bother at around midnight. At 1am, PokerStars then decided to have a 15 minute break much to my annoyance and to other UK players. One guy said that if he'd know that was going to happen he'd have just pushed any hand and went to bed! My stack was getting small and I was getting tired. But there were lots of small money bubbles coming up. I went into short-stack ninja mode and ended up busting out in 222nd place of out 4500ish at around 2.30am when my two pair ran into a higher two pair. And my prize for 7 and half hours work?........$22.
Why the fuck did I bother?
PS For any BritBloggers reading - I've never played the BritBloggerment from the bath.
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