Nov 18 2005
It’s about time
Recently I’ve been having a rotten run of form. Virtually every tournament I’ve played over the last 2/3 weeks I’ve bubbled out of. It happened again tonight in one $10 + $1 single table SNG. I couldn’t help thinking that I was forever doomed to this terrible bubble boy fate.
So I registered in a 3 table SNG with the sole purpose of reaching the money. Even if it meant blinding out the hand after I made it there I just had to cash for my morale. That’s nearly what happened. We were on the bubble, with blinds at 400/800 and I had maybe 2 more orbits left before I was gone. I was dealt pocket 9’s and after a lot of thought decided to go All-In pre flop.
They held up and I doubled up. The bubble went the very next hand.
I had cashed.
The pressure I had put myself under to get there vanished and I began to loosen up. Within less than 5 hands I had doubled up again and things were looking good. So to cut a long story short:
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PokerStars Tournament #15244474, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
27 players
Total Prize Pool: $270.00
Tournament started - 2005/11/17 - 16:38:41 (ET)
Dear whoisspain,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $100.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
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I ended up playing some really good poker my luck seemed to be in too. Coin-tosses fell in my favour. I was catching crazy straights from the big blind with rags. It felt great.
Here’s hoping the win is going to set me up nicely for the WWdN Tournament tomorrow night.
