Well, the good news is that I increased my risk, to little avail. I played only 7 tournaments but managed to risk $73 doing it. The signature tournament was the Cake Poker $10k Bounty ($33). Sadly, all my bigger tournaments with guaranteed pools I totally blanked on. Yeah, a big goose egg.
I managed to win a small private PLO8 game $2.20 buyin, $17 cash, but I was still going to be pretty stuck. While playing the 10k bounty, I decided to play a $4 FLHE tourney at PokerStars. Well I quickly donked out of all the big time tournaments last night and was left playing the FLHE game and being stuck for -$50 or so.
Miraculously I managed to final table the fixed tourney and should have done better than the 7th I got. Sadly suckouts are a big part of the fixed game and these players were alarmingly fishy. I cashed for $78 which allowed me to bail out the day with a modest +$21. Beats losing, but doesn’t beat pulling down a cool G like Sunday either.
The bad news is that I played 11 tournaments and 1 ring game and lost money in 9 of them. Yes, not very good numbers. But as Paul Harvey used to say: (is he dead?)
Now for the rest of the Story!
Of the three tournaments i cashed in, I won two of them! The largest was the Bodog $6.60 turbo at 3 pm for a nice $91.80. The rest of them with the one smaller win basically break even. That left me up +$84.50 for the day.
But the one ring game was of interest. Daniel Negreanu tweeted that he was about to sit at a .05/.10 ring game. So I rushed over to PS and did “find player” on KidPoker. I was bummed when I only made it to 1st on the waiting list, but miraculously one guy left!. I dropped about $4 before he left, but I had to call a couple of his raises just to say I played in a pot with him.
Don’t believe me? Like I would sit with Daniel Negreanu without taking a Screen Shot of it? Ha. Anyway, click the SS you doubters. I am retiring for the day with my small profit and interesting experience. chow.
