On a run from rakeback

After getting back from the cruise i got an email through from full tilt telling me that my rakeback from last month had been paid into my account. This meant i could play online! :D

I took my $21.92 and played a few $2 sng's, within a few hours i was down to about $12, whoops!
Then i decided to sit down at a fixed limit game with $5, don't ask why as i have never played fixed limit before. The next morning i had $40 in my account. The next day i played .25/.50 FL some more... $75. I decided to move up to .50/1 and made some more just single tabling.

Anyway, 2 days ago i decided to move to the sng's which i hadn't played in a while. I loaded up 4 tables of the $6.50's. Amazingly i won all 4 and bagged a profit of $80.

My roll was at about $180 now and so i decided to take a risk and bought in for max at .25/.50 6-max table. I played super tight but also had a very good run of cards early on doubling from JJ vs TT all in preflop and then the very next hand picking up KK and raising it utg. The tilted guy who had just lost with tens just shoved all in for $50 (my raise was to $2) and i insta-called. He showed TT again and my Kings held up!!

I played a bit more .25/.50 yesterday, 4 tabling full ring and making a decent profit. One hand which was quite fun was when i had JJ. Utg raised and i re-raised from late position. The button shoved for about $18 total, utg thought for a while and folded. I insta call the $12 more and he has AA ;/ The flop comes Jxx and i shout "yes" at the screen, turn A, "FUCK!", river...... J "OMFG QUADS!!1!!! PHEWWW..."

I also played a few tournaments yesterday and did ok. I played the $24,000 gtd and finished in the money around 180th out of 1600ish. I wasn't too pleased though as i think towards the end i played more to cash than to built up a stack, although saying that i think nearing the end of the tournament i only had a couple of pushing hands (A2, 89 etc) which i stole with. All the other cards were complete junk.

I also played 4 90 seater Knockout sng's ($3 buyin's) I did well in all of these getting into the top 25 in 3 of them. Got bad beat a couple of times when my AK shove ran into the monster that is QK etc.. I managed to cash in one of them and came 5th busting on a really horrid hand.

I raised it upto 5,000 with 89o (blinds 1k/2k) and the small and big blind both call. The flop comes 668 with 2 clubs. Both players check to me and i fire out 11,000 leaving 18,000 behind. The SB folds and the BB goes all in. I insta call my top pair no kicker and he shows Jc3c for a flush draw (on paired board remember) Turn comes a J, river J. GG J3, nice call preflop nice shoving into a player completely committed on a paired board with a crap flush draw. He became a massive chip leader after that hand and bust out 3 hands later after making more very bad calls.

Bankroll: $335 +rakeback: $32

A much needed update!

So i am currently still in New York for 5 more days after just coming back from the Ladbrokes Poker Cruise 3 in the Caribbean. We had a lot of fun on it although the poker didnt go quite so well. Was pretty hard to do well at the cash games with these crazy scandi's who were allowed to buyin to a $1/2 table with $5k and just completely steamroller each other.

I started off ok, got my starting bankroll for the trip of $250 upto about $700, lost most of if. Sat down at 3 card poker with my last $50 and got that upto $850, hitting 2 straight flushes and some straights in the period of about 45mins.

On the last night i check raised the last of my chips in with just top pair on the turn on a K high board. He obviously called the remaining $350 into a $200 pot with 79high and a flush draw and hit the flush on the river.

I ended the trip $100 down in total and gave the $150 i started with to my girlfriend as a start on what i owe her.