Bust-out on The Bubble at The Borgata (Sucks to be me)

I drove up to Atlantic City to play The Borgata's last Satellite for the WPT Mirage Poker Showdown next month. They have run these for the past 2 Fridays and this is the last one. $500 + $50 Satellite awarded $10,000 Buy-in + $1000 (for expenses) Packages. With 103 players entered, 1st-4th place got packages and 5th Place got about $7000.

After playing some of the best poke that I have ever played in my life, I busted on the bubble in 6th Place!!!! Tallking bout a body blow to the gut. Man it hurts. To be so close yet so far away. Heads up with the other short stack...AK versus A7 and a 7 comes on the flop. Womp-Womp! To the rail I go.

Oh well. I just felt like venting publicly. Makes you want to just take some time off from playing poker yet you feel like you're in a zone and need to get right back in the saddle. Maybe I'll jump in the FTP Piece of The Pros Tourney today or something. But then again, I play so much better live versus online. So, that wont prove much to me I guess.

Oh well. Thanks for reading.

Today's Results...

1.) $100,000 Guarantee ($100+$9 Buy-in) on BoDog.com - Finished 257th/559

2.) $10,000 Guarnatee ($25+$2 Buy-In) on BoDog.com - Finished 35th/264
It went a little something like this:



I finished in 35th place.

I'm in Big Blind with QJ suited. Fold around to SB who raises to put me all-in. He shows 56o. Flop is Q-8-7. Turn is a 2. River is a 4.

WOMP-WOMP!!!

If I win that hand, I double-up and make it to the money with 27 places paid.

The guy tells APsmalley at end of the hand he bet for me to fold and I was crazy for making the call. What a frikkking asshole. I have about 1500 I think and the blinds are 800/400 and we are 8 away from the money. after the blinds, I'm left with 200 at most. How do I not call. Its frikkin crazy out there.

Back to the grind at 10:30 for the last $10,000 guarantee of the day. Cant beat a Late night special of $8 Buy-in. lol I must be a sucker for punishment.

Time to play Ketchup/Catsup/Catch Up!

LOL!!!

Well, I think I'm behind again. I believe Wednesday was the last time I posted with an update. Nothing too major happened since then. Or did it? Let me think.

Wednesday evening, I think I took the night off from playing poker and decided to watch poker. The WPT on The Travel Channel. Pretty good episode from last year at The Bellagio. I know they dont show all of the hands but I am beginning to see some real good play from these players. Speaking of The Bellagio, Phil Ivey is at the final TV table for the WPT Championship taking place this week. Go Phil!

Thursday night, I played a WSOP Qualifier on BoDog for $5+.50 just for shits and giggles. DIdnt feel like playing anything heavy since I was sleepy from playing and staying up late the past two nites. Well, I won at seat into the bigger Satellite. Tourney paid a $33 Tournament credit. I later found out that I could use that credit in other tournament qualifiers. So, that gave a mini boost to my BoDog Bankroll. lol

Friday, I didnt play much. Sometimes, I feel like I need a break from poker and will try to do other things. To be honest with you, my brand new pda (Dell Axim X50v, 624Mhz, with Wi-Fi and BlueTooth) came in that day and I played with it all night. lol I figured it was time to start keeping track of my poker expenses and what have you just a little bit better. I've already entered into my calendar, all of the major online tourneys. Pretty good stuff.

Saturday, not much poker at all. At least, not until Saturday night. Went to a $150 + $15 home game which took place in Bowie, Maryland. I was doing real well until I hit a hand where I flopped 2 pair. However, I did not play it right at all and I let my opponent see the river for cheap and suckout on me with at straight. That sucked pretty bad.

So, I decided to leave and head home to get some online play in. Made it home just in time to catch the BoDog $10,000 Guarantee at 10:30pm. I know its not a major even but I like it for some reason. I think its because every sinle night it always has an overlay (they dont get enough players to sign up and cover the guarantee. So, they have to kick in the money out of their pockets).

Well, I'm happy to report I finished in 7th place out of 276 players. $25 + $2 Buy-In and I was payed $359. What a confidence boost. I love making final tables. I guess I wouldn't have made the TV table though (The WPT only shows the final 6 players of a WPT event)if it were a WPT event. lol

So, that brings me up to now. Sunday. The Day of the $100,000 Guarantee on BoDog. Starts at 2pm. I have a lot of time to burn until then. I think I'll do a bit of reading. This week I started reading James McManus' Positively Fifth Street. Its actually a pretty good read. I havent gotten deep into it but it actual starts off with some heart pumping action. Literally.

Well, thats it for now. Oh, and if anyone can tell me where the month of April went, I really am looking for her. Its like she just dissapeared. I guess its almost summertime. Bring on Memorial Day Weekend!

-Big Syd

Another exciting Tuesday Night of Poker...

Last night's Big Syd Poker Night was a pretty excting one. We decided to switch it up this week and have a re-buy tournament instead of the usual freezeout. What a success. I'll post the particulars once I get a copy from MixedBruh. I do know we had 17 players and a prize pool of about $2,360. It was a $40 + $10 Buy-In tournament with $40 Rebuys, available during the first threee blind levels as long as you were under the starting amoung of chips ($T1000), and $40 Add-Ons (T$2000) at the end of the Rebuy prerid.

Congratulations to all the winners. Once again, I busted out on the bubble in 5th Place. However, I did get paid $100 due to a deal we struck once we were down to 5 Players. The deal was that the final 4 would each pitch in $25 to pay the 5th Place finisher $100. Kinda sad that I was the 5th Place finisher considering I was about 2nd in chips when we got to 5 and made the deal. Well, Thats Poker.

The number of rebuys and add-ons was crazy. One person rebought about 7 or 8 times. Funny thing is, he won! LOL!.

I'll post the number of rebuys and add-ons later this evening when I get the report.

Thanks to all that came out last night and look forward to seeing the announcement for next week's game.

Oh, and how can I forget a special thanks to MixedBruh (Scott) for hosting and also cooking out on the grill for our dinner. We served hamburgers, hot dogs and sausages which everyone in attendance enjoyed. Thanks again.

-Big Syd

Monday Night Poker (RGP Challenge on Full Tilt)

Last night I played in the RGP Challenge. It was a pretty good game. We had about 38 players to participate. I played some good hands and almost made it to the Final Table. I busted out in 15th place. Sucks to be me! lol

One of these days I will make the final table again.

-Big Syd

Big Blind Arlo

Here is a little treat for my RGP'ers. We call any 4-6 hand Arlo. It's a hand named after one of the RGP regulars. I'm sure some people will get a kick out of this one. Screenshot taken during the RGP Challenge on 4/18/2005. I finished in 15th place on this night. CLICK ON PICTURE FOR LARGER IMAGE 

Lets Do It Again...Or Maybe I shouldn't have...

OK, somebody is trying to tell me something. Last night, I decided to play the BoDog Sunday night 10:30 Tourney. I'm sitting at my table, chip leader with about 11,000 in chips. Closest person to me in chips has 2000 something. I'm in the cutoff and I raise to 2000 something to essentially put them in a race situation with my hand. As soon as I raise, my BoDog crashed on me. I come back to see he called my raise and my hand was folded due to my disconnect. Down to 8000 or so. Then, I get KK and guy goes all-in for about 3900. I call. He catches an A on the Flop. Womp-Womp. Now I'm down to about 4000. I push with a decent hand from the small blind seeing that the BB only had about 1026 left. He calls. We see a flop. But wait. No show of cards. Holy Cow. This guy had 10,000 something. Not a 1000 something. I'm F**ked but paired up on the flop. We check down til the river and he showd 66 with a 6 on the board for trips. Now I'm looking down at AQ. I'm all-in. Called by AK. I catch a Q, he catches a K. Womp-Womp. That was pretty much it for me. Oh, and I was only 20 spaces from the money. But with a $8 buy-in, I wanted my 10,000 back. The hell with cashing for 30 or 50 or 80 bucks. I was supposed to be at the final table of this one. I finished 12th in this one last Sunday. I was supposed to be at the final table. Man, you gotta love poker.

-Big Syd

Black Sunday

Well, Sunday had to be one of the worst Sundays in poker for me.

I played the $100,000 Guarantee on BoDog and busted in 211th place out of almost 600 something players when I was All-In with AK versus 89 and the flop comes A-9-X and then he hits an 8 on the river to send me to the rail. How he called my all-in with second best, I'll never know.

Then, during the BoDog tourney, I was also playing the RGP Satellite for the $1500 WSOP event. Busted when my opponent was holding a set to my pair of aces. Congrats to MissT74 for taking down that tourney. I hope to catch up to you in Vegas for the WSOP. You should have gotten my payment for the Last Long by now.

Then, Sunday night, I play the 10:30, $10,000 Guarantee on BoDog where I finished in 77th place. Never before have I had a tourney like this one, Matter of fact, let me save the detais for another post.

Big Syd

This picture here shows you how to crack the Pocket Rockets (Pocket Aces). Screenshot taken from Pieces of the Pro Tournament at Full Tilt Poker on April 17, 2005. Thanks to CruzinCat of md-poker for the screenshot. CLICK ON PICTURE FOR LARGER VIEW
 

This here is an example of how one should stay focussed in the game of No Limit Texas Holdem Poker. This screenshot was taken by CruzinCat of md-poker.com It was taken during the Pieces of the Pro Tournament on April 17, 2005, at Full Tilt Poker. CLICK ON PICTURE FOR LARGER VIEW 

OK, So Fire Me!!!! I know I'm late.

Yes, I know its been a minute, ok, almost a week since I posted an update. So Fire Me! To be honest, a lot of times when I bust out of tournies, I am so frustuated that I dont even feel like writing about it. I mean, so many times, I come so close. It really is crazy.

Well, enough of laying the sob story on you to justify my lazyness and not updating my page in almost a week. Let me see if I can bring you up to snuff.

As you know, I love to play the RGP Challenge game every Monday night on Full Tilt Poker. Its a private tourney between my fellow RGP'ers which really pays nothing more than bragging rights. Well, it does pay a little since it has a $10 + $1 Buy-In. But it really isnt about the money. You can get more info on the RGP Challenge and the other games we play by checking out dub-dub-dub dot rgpchallenge dot com. Now that I think about it, I dont even know why I'm explaining all of this just to let you know that I didnt play this past Monday. I got home late and missed the tip-off by minutes. Oh well, there is always tomorrow.

On Tuesday night, I had my weekly Big Syd's Poker Night game. Not gonna talk much on this one because you know if I did well in it yoiu would have heard so by now. I had a respectable finish but no money. Womp-Womp!

Wednesday and Thursday, I took a little break from poker. Ok, I'm lieing. On Wednesday I'm sure I probably snuck in a Sit-n-Go or small buy-in tourney. Truth is, I cant remember back that far. lol Thursday, I had to get started on doing my tax return since it is due on Friday. Its just the Big Syd way to wait til April 15th to turn in his tax return. Nothing like being at the post office at 11 something PM to turn in your tax return. It really is a pretty festive time. Friday night was pretty quiet as well as far as poker. I had to finish my return and get it in before Midnight. Mission accomplished. For some reason, there was no Bustout Bonanza on Full Tilt Poker. However, I do see they have one scheduled for today at 4pm I believe and Chris Ferguson has the bounty on his head.

Saturday, I attended my son's basketball game in a tournament and they crushed their opponent. Then, I went home and washed my truck. Let me tell you, everytime I wash my truck (Cadillac Escalade), it reminds me why I usually pay someone else to do it. That is one big truck to wash. Why I took it on to do before the the Pieces of The Pro Tourney on Full Tilt Poker is beyond me. But I did. And I finished about 10 minutes before the start of the tournament. And I was dog dead tired.

On to the Pieces of the Pro Tournament on FTP. Its actually the regularly scheduled $50,000 Guarnatee Tournament with and added twist. What Full Tilt has done is picked one if its Pro on the site each week that will be playing in the WSOP and they are giving the winner of the tourney 10% of the Pro's winnings in the WSOP Main Event. Schweet!!!!! Not only that. But the 2nd - 9th Place finishers each get 1% of his winnings in the WSOP Main Event. How generous. Not bad for a $100 + $9 Buy-in.

Well, I must say I really did enjoy playing this tourney. 450 Entrants. I was really playing well. However, sometimes, your best (or was it really my best) just isnt good enough. I finished in 100th Place. Top 54 got paid. Womp-Womp! Big Ups to CruzinCat and CaptKerry from md-poker.com who stopped by and observed me lose.

Well, here we are to Sunday. The day of the $100,000 Guarantee on BoDog.com. SHould be a nice overlay today since they usually dont get the required number of players to cover their large guarantees. Its like free money kicked in by the site. THat kicks off at 2pm.

Also, at 3pm, I'm playing in an online satellite to a WSOP $1500
event of my choice. Its a private tourney for RGP'ers being organized by ecr72. We all pitched in $30 to him to get in and then we pay $10 + $1 on PokerStars to play. The winner will get the $1500 buy-in for a WSOP event. That kicks off at 3pm

And if those two tourneys arent enough for me, there is always the Bustout Bonanza I mentioned above. I believe it kicks off at 4pm on Full Tilt Poker.

Well, thats about it for now. I need to run get something to eat before 2pm. Yall wish me good Luck.

Big Syd

12th Place in the BoDog $10,000 Guarantee...

Didnt get to play much poker on Sunday during the day. I did watch the WPT Aruba Event which aired last week. Tivo is a beautiful thing. Pretty good episode. Those Brennes brothers are pretty good. I kinda wanted to see Mike Matusow take it down. He has been coming so close to hitting a big one.

On another note, bt the time I got in from Jillians on Sunday, it was too late to play any of the events I wanted to play on Full Tilt. So, I jumped on BoDog and played the 10:30pm $10,000 Guarantee event. Pretty good tournament. I finished in 12th place out of 626 players. This finish and my finish on Friday night have given me a much needed confidence boost after the NEPC. The both let me know that I still got it and there is nothing like that feeling when it just seemd like things are going your way.

Thats about it for now. Today is Monday. That means the RGP Challenge Game tonight on Full Tilt at 10pm and then I have my weekly home game tomorrow night at my place.

Later!

Big Syd

A Full Tilt Poker Action Hand...

Here is a hand from at $10 Holdem Tourney at 5:00 am Sunday Morning:

Dealer: Hand #89125890
Dealer: LFandel posts the small blind of 20
Dealer: RunnerRunner posts the big blind of 40
Dealer: You have been dealt [Qh Qc]
Dealer: dumpling20 calls 40
Dealer: diggler05 raises to 180
Dealer: twodogs folds
Dealer: WildWilly88 raises to 185, and is all in
Dealer: PurpleJC folds
Dealer: jrm2003 raises to 835, and is all in
Dealer: KappaMan calls 835
Dealer: LFandel folds
Dealer: RunnerRunner folds
Dealer: dumpling20 folds
jrm2003: this is bs
jrm2003: i wanna lose
Dealer: diggler05 raises to 1,490
KappaMan: this is gonna be ugly!!!!
Dealer: KappaMan has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: KappaMan calls 375, and is all in
Dealer: diggler05 shows [As Jc]
Dealer: WildWilly88 shows [Kd Th]
Dealer: jrm2003 shows [Jh Js]
Dealer: KappaMan shows [Qh Qc]
Dealer: Uncalled bet of 280 returned to diggler05
Dealer: The flop is [3c 5h Ah]
Dealer: The turn is [Ks]
Dealer: The river is [4d]
Dealer: diggler05 shows a pair of Aces
Dealer: KappaMan shows a pair of Queens
Dealer: diggler05 wins side pot #2 (750) with a pair of Aces
Dealer: jrm2003 shows a pair of Jacks
Dealer: diggler05 wins side pot #1 (1,950) with a pair of Aces
Dealer: WildWilly88 shows a pair of Kings
Dealer: diggler05 wins the main pot (840) with a pair of Aces
Dealer: WildWilly88 stands up
Dealer: jrm2003 stands up
Dealer: KappaMan stands up

Pokerstars Action Hand from the RGP Home Game #10

Here is the hand I was telling you about in my last post:

PokerStars Game #1497579595: Tournament #6736313, Hold'em No Limit - Level II
(15/30) - 2005/04/09 - 19:18:47 (ET)
Table '6736313 2' Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: SuperSteamer (1365 in chips)
Seat 2: OtterChaos (1680 in chips)
Seat 4: Scotch Rocks (1485 in chips)
Seat 5: XaQ Morphy (1540 in chips)
Seat 6: ace6off (1555 in chips)
Seat 7: KappaMan (1215 in chips)
Seat 8: jamorse_99 (2190 in chips)
Seat 9: TLira (995 in chips)
XaQ Morphy: posts small blind 15
ace6off: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KappaMan [Tc Ah]
KappaMan: calls 30
jamorse_99: calls 30
TLira: calls 30
SuperSteamer: folds
OtterChaos: folds
Scotch Rocks: folds
XaQ Morphy: calls 15
ace6off: checks
*** FLOP *** [2c 3s Ac]
XaQ Morphy: bets 120
ace6off: calls 120
KappaMan: calls 120
jamorse_99: folds
TLira: folds
*** TURN *** [2c 3s Ac] [As]
XaQ Morphy: checks
ace6off: bets 300
KappaMan: raises 300 to 600
XaQ Morphy: raises 790 to 1390 and is all-in
ace6off: raises 15 to 1405 and is all-in
KappaMan: calls 465 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [2c 3s Ac As] [9s]
XaQ Morphy said, "uh oh"
XaQ Morphy said, "lol"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
XaQ Morphy: shows [9c Ad] (a full house, Aces full of Nines)
ace6off: shows [5s 4h] (a straight, Ace to Five)
Scotch Rocks said, "omg"
XaQ Morphy collected 650 from side pot
KappaMan: shows [Tc Ah] (three of a kind, Aces)
XaQ Morphy said, "rigged!"
XaQ Morphy collected 3705 from main pot
Scotch Rocks said, "yeah"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4355 Main pot 3705. Side pot 650. | Rake 0
Board [2c 3s Ac As 9s]
Seat 1: SuperSteamer folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: OtterChaos folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Scotch Rocks (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: XaQ Morphy (small blind) showed [9c Ad] and won (4355) with a full
house, Aces full of Nines
Seat 6: ace6off (big blind) showed [5s 4h] and lost with a straight, Ace to
Five
Seat 7: KappaMan showed [Tc Ah] and lost with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 8: jamorse_99 folded on the Flop
Seat 9: TLira folded on the Flop

Whoa! I missed a whole week!

My apologies. I missed a whole week of posting to my blog. I'll admit, I really wasnt up to it after coming back from the New England Poker Classic empty handed. I really felt that the opportunity was there for me to shine.

After playing the $500 Event on Sunday, I played the $1000 + $100 Buy-In No Limit Holdem event on Monday. I didnt do half as well as I did on Sunday. About 288 players and I finished about 190 something. It just wasnt my trip. Only wins I can credit from my trip were winning satellites into ACT 3 tourneys which gave me a possibility of playing in the Main Event. I didnt Make the Main Event. However, a member of the posse that rode up with me did and he returned to play in the Main Event which is taking place this weekend.

I do apologize to those that staked me these two events. I really did want to bring home the loot. Dont give up on me yet. I guarantee you I will return very soon.

On to more info. I got back on Tuesday night and didnt get a chance to play in my Tuesday night game. Thanks to Scotty for hosting it for me.

On Wednesday, I played a Sit-and-Go and won on Full Tilt Poker. Nothing like a good confidence booster.

On Sunday, Today, Bumper is running a $250 + $20 Buy-In Holdem Event and he had single table satellites running on Thursday night. I played in 2 of them but didnt win my seat. Close but no cigar.

On Friday night, I decided to play the weekely Bustout Bonanza on Full Tilt Poker. The Bounty this week was on Mike "The Mouth" Matusow. FOr those of you not aware what the Bustout Bonanza is, its a $50 buy-in event where all the pros have the usual bounty on there heads equal to the buy-in ($50 each in this event). However, one pro is designated as the bonus bounty and it was Mike this week.

Well, I started this event off real well and had a good feeling about it. Started with Erick Lindgren on my direct right and saw him bustout eventually. After some serious card playing, I finished in 30th Place. The top 36 finishers got paid. So, I'm feeling good about that.

On Saturday, I played the $50,000 Guarante Event on Full Tilt Poker. Once again, they did not meet the number of players needed to cover the $50,000. So, there was a huge overlay with only 362 players registered. Its like getting free money almost. Top 54 get paid. Well, I catch the B*tches, I mean the Queens and I get the perfect flop. I meant the flop texture is perfect for this hand and I have one guy on my tail. Long Story short, we get to the Turn and he puts me all-in and then spikes and A on the river to send me to the rail early. What a suckout! Oh well. So much for that.

Wanting some action bad after the bustout, I jumped in the RGP Home Game on PokerStars. I havent played an RGP Challenge in a few weeks. So, this gave me an opportunity to try and get some points and catch up. WRONG!!! Got caught up in a bad hand and was out in 20th something place out of 28 players. I'll post the hand in a bit so you can see how it went down.

Well, I decided I would just hit the bed early after watching some poker on TV. Look at me now. Up at 4:30 on Sunday Morning.

Today, My plans are to either play in Bumpers $250 Tourney or play in the $100,000 guarantee on BoDog this afternoon or take my son to his end of season party for his Basketball team at Jillians. You tell me which one you think I'll be doing.

-Big Syd

$500 + $65 NLHE Event Holy Smoke! 958 Players)

$500 + $65 NLHE Event

958 Players

$481,000 Prize Pool

1st Place will pay $130,000 plus.

Top 90 Finishers will get paid.

Players start with 1500 in chips and Blinds go up every 45 minutes

Not much to report on this one. I came very close to finishing in the money. I finished in 155th Place out of 958 Players. It was a struggle to get there. I will say that I wa very dissapointed in the way this event was run. My main gripe was that they eliminated 2 of the blind levels that were published for this event. Also, they added alternates into this event well over an hour and a half after the start of the event and they gave the alternates complete 1500 chip stack. To me, thats not right. Wasnt anything that I could do about it though. Oh well.

Tomorrow is another day. The $1000 + $100 NLHE event starts is tomorrow.

Good Night.

-Big Syd

New England Poker Classic Report (Part I)

Made it up to Foxwoods on Saturday Afternoon to play some events in the New England Poker Classic. It really wasnt as bad of a drive as I thought it would be. We made it in about 4-5 hours. Not much traffic at all. I actually drove the entire way. On this trip, I'm accompanied by 2 other md-poker.com poker players. Alex928gts and RunRRunR.

We get to Foxwoods, check in to the room, and then head straight to the Casino for some poker. We decided to play some ACTs and some SnG Satellites. The Acts are kinda like step games to make it to the $5000 Main Event later in the week. An ACT1 is a $60 buy-in Single Table event and the top 3 finishers win entries into the Act2 which is a $150 Buy-In Single table event. The top 3 finishers in an ACT2 win Buy-Ins to the ACT3 which is a Multi-Table Tournament. The ACT3 finishers win as many $5000 seats as possible and the rest of the prize pool if paid in vouchers for another Act3.

The 3 of decided to buy-in directly to the Act2. Alex and RunR are in the same Act 2 and Alex busted out and Joe finished in the top 3 and got his seat. Then I busted out on the bubble in my Act2. Due to the time, they escalated the blind levels from 15 minutes to 10 minutes to 7minutes. long so that the ACT2 would be finished in time for the ACT3 starting at 5:30. I wasnt feeling that at all. Had I known it was going to go down like that, I would have waited for a later one. Enogh of the Acts for me. Alex buys in to another Act 2 and wins his seat.

I then decided to try some of the Single table $60+$15 buy-in satellites. Event pays $600 to the winner. Everybody else walks away empty handed. At the table, we alsoe decided to pitch in an extra $20/piece as a side pot to pay 2nd place finisher. I busted out in 4th place in this one. The remaining 3 chop the $600+$200 with a $500, $200, $100 pay out for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Well, I go out in 4th. Now, I'm steaming. I cant go out like this. lol So, I buy-in to another one and take 1st place. BAM!!! 600 Smackeroos!

Thats it for me for the night. I grabbed some dinner at a nice Southern Soul Restaraunt called Amy Ruths. The original location is in Harlem, New York. I highly recommend this place if you ever visit Foxwoods. I had the Rev. Al Sharpton (Chicken and Waffles). Delicious.

I'll report on today's $500 + $65 Event in my next post/report. Be on the look out.

Big Syd

The Final Table, The Bubble!!!

Yep. It happened again on a Thursday. Drove up to Glen Burnie to play Bumper's Thursday night tourney. 24 players and the top 4 got paid. I dont even have to tell you who finished in 5th!.

I actually had a poor start. I didnt think I was going to make it to the first break. But I dug in real deep and waited for some good cards to double up and triple up on. It worked. I had gotten down to about T4000 from the original T10000 we start with. Mainly due to some hands I played when we started off about 5 or 6 handed at my table waiting for the late arrivals. But once they came in and the usual flow of the game picked up, I was back in it after a huge hand.

Got down to the final table and ran my stack up a good bit. My plan at that point was to let some of the shorter stackes knock each other out or themselves. ANTTT!!! Wrong answer. They were all catching cards and doubling and tripling up. Not good for me. Eventually, we go from 10 to 5 players and the blineds are enormous now. 5000-10000 to be exact. Crushing our stacks since there were no big chip leaders. Long story short, I got to the point were I had 15000 at this level and the big blind came to me. I get Q7 and am put in by the gentleman at the opposite end of the table. AA. Good Nite Irene.

All-in-All, I think I had a good showing considering. I do feel more confident about my play as aof late going into this weekend and the NEPC. Wish me luck.

Big Syd

Another Final Table for me to bubble on...

Another Final Table for me to bubble on...

Played Bumper's Tournament at Chips.

24 Players Top 4 finish in the money. I came in 5th Place.

Actually. I dont even want to talk about it anymore.

-Big Syd