Who's up for Sunday tourney?

Started out playing in Ladbrokes freeroll last night about 8.45pm. No real progress and I got a call which meant I had to nip out to see a man about a dog for 3/4 hour.On my next hand I get The Hammer and push all in only to double up v 66 when I hit my 7.A few hands later I get it again and push all in and "show" when they all folded.Brightened up my evening!

I had 2.2k chips from a 1k start and headed off leaving Mrs A in charge at the table but unsure what to do or how to make a bet.Arrived back 3/4 hour later and from 799 starters we were down to 106 and I ( well Mrs A and I ) were sitting 99th with 1.2k chips.I asked if she'd had any good hands and made any bets but Mrs A said she'd tried but wasn't sure! My instructions were quite basic.All in with any pair 10's or above and all in with AK,AQ and AJ.

I thanked her for her fine efforts and promptly went all in with AJ v QJ and watched as a Q on the river took me down."Maybe you should have let me finish it " says Mrs A....


Logged onto Pokerroom who I notice have now introduced Private tourneys.Played a 5 seat $5 turbo sng and won $17.50 for 1st place in exactly 20 minutes.Not rocket science. My AA v JJ and 78sooooted took out two players and I could only really have thrown it away from there.
My AQ hit an A v the villans 88 in the last hand.

Left PR and moved to a Ladbrokes 6 max table and left $7 up after 20 minutes play.Opened a $.50-$1nl full ring table and picked up Bullets in the sb.I raised to $2.50 and got 2 callers.Bet out $8 on a 6 10 4 rainbow flop and got one caller.Turn was a 3 and I checked hoping to induce a bluff from someone putting me on AK and the villan obliged and bet $9 which I raised to $18 in a flash expecting to take it there and then.I'd faked weakness then reraised him giving away the strength of my hand but the villan moved all in for a few $ more ( the punk made my day) and I called to see an 8 on the river.He showed 9c10c and I took down a fine pot.

Its easy to write about playing every hand as if in isolation but not so easy to do it.I got annoyed at myself a bit later when I had QQ and bet out on a flop with 2 hearts.On the blank turn the villan acted first and bet about 1/3rd of the pot but despite telling myself it was a blocking bet ( ie he bet exactly what he wanted to pay for his flush draw) I only called instead of raising and when he checked another blank on the river I checked too and beat his 7h9h flush draw.My logic for checking the end was that if he had 2 pair he would call and if he had the flush draw I suspected he would fold anyway but while I won the pot I still felt as if I'd played it badly.

It was almost as if after winning with the AA hand I wanted to finish the night well ahead and didn't want to risk losing much.Chicken poker!

Finished the night $79 up in total for only 90 mins play ( excluding freeroll).


Ok I'm off to play some live poker a week on Sunday so thought I'd see how much interest there would be in a tourney this Sunday.I'd be happy to ask Chipper to arrange it for Pokerstars but as the min of $10 put off some of the Brit players what does everyone think about a $5.50 sng at Pokerroom 9pm Gmt? I had a look and setting up a private sng seems quite simple even for an etard like me.

Quick congrats to Aussie Dave on Australia beating Uruguay on penalties to qualify for the World Cup next year.

Please leave me your tourney thoughts....