Another day... another seat!

Well last week was interesting! Lots of cash games with some moderate success and two tournaments, the 1st being a freeroll to the BFAPT in Singapore in November and the second being another BFAPT satellite using 4000mpps (reward points on crypto) to buyin. I've got more MPPs that I know what to do with so I thought why not?!

As with the previous weeks WH Grandprix I was feeling pretty confident in the freeroll and building up a steady stack, I look down to see AdKd and make a reasonable raise from an early position with 1 caller .

Flop comes 4d 9d 8d ... lovely! I lead off and get raised..lovely...i flat call... turn Jd .... I lead off with a modest bet and he calls... river As .... all the money goes in and he flips Jd7d for a turned straight flush!!!! LOVELY


Sunday comes along and there are about 80-90 runners in the MPP tournie all chasing 2 seats. It's not a freeroll as such and people have to play a bit to get 4k MPPs so there were a lot of familiar names in the line up and not too many muppets.

I tick over nicely without looking at the tournament window and after an hour or two I see the field has halved and I'm mid table. Again, i'm feeling pretty good about my play and only took one serious hit for about 40% of my chips when I pushed with a nut flush draw into a short stack who'd already flopped a full house and rivered quads... oops!

It didn't take long to recover and I'm sitting ok with 20 runners left, as one or two more get picked off I'm starting to dwindle a little in chips and decide it's time to move up a few gears... a double up with KK vs AQ helps me along a little but I'm still a little short. I pick up the monster that is T3os in the SB. Everyone folds to me and I push in for 9k to pick up the 2k blinds and antes... but oh no the BB whos also playing 9k decides that this is the time to make a stand and calls with A6!!!! Shocking call imo and he gets what is deserved with a 3 on the flop and a 3 on the river.

I work it up to an above average 26k by the time the final talbe is underway. I'm in the SB and pick up TT ... Mavis is on the button playing 13k and raises to 3k.... I push in (again!! ;o) ) and Mavis dwells for a second or two and makes call with his tournament life on the line with A8os! No help for mavo and im sitting pretty with 40k in chips (about 160k in play and 8 left) , again I don't like this call at all.

I decide to sit tight for a while and let the short stacks donk it out , I also went pretty card dead at the same time... about 6 orbits go by and I don't find a card. Funds are getting towards 30k and I've got Deejay on MSN thinking I'm starting to bottle it and dare not play a hand... as if!?

A Rag raise from early position looking for some respect and I can't call an all in for 18k... down to 25k. A bit of up and down and I'm still on about 30k with 4 players left.... a shortie pushes for 10k on my BB and I've got 2.5k in there already and make the call with pocket 6s. KT is shown and 5 cards later he’s out and it's 3 handed.

I'm on 40k, the guy to my left is on 90k and to his left 30k. This remains as the status quo for a long time, I'm struggling to get at the shorties BB as I can't afford to take the big stack on with a marginal hand. As such I give a lot of my SBs to the big stack uncontested, this is fine as the shortie is getting hammered on his BB and he wasn't attacking my BB much as I'd moved over the top a few times. The net result was I was bleeding chips... but he was bleeding them faster.

This was all fine and dandy until the big stack gifts him a double up and the situation is reversed and I'm on 25k and hes on 37k!! Time to find that gear again and before long i'm on 35k and he's on about 30k with the blinds starting to hit hard at 4.5k every 3 handed orbit.

It's wasn't going to be long until all the chips were in.... I look down to see Ad8d ... now I won the Vegas sat with A8 , i won the CPC seat with A8, karma was calling an I stick them from the button on the shorties BB. He calls in a flash and turns over AKos .... ooooops!

--- FLOP ----- [2d 2h Qc]
Paired board gives me a small life line!

----- TURN ----- [Qd]
Shocking turn for him..splits the pot unless he catches one of two aces or two kings, but I've still got 12 outs to win it...

----- RIVER -----][Td]
Rivers me a nut flush and a $8k seat to the BFAPT.... Had to feel for the chap! Ridding my luck a lot in this one I know, but fortune favors the brave!

Results in these sats are now getting silly.




Cheers,

Jim