Stars, oh Stars in My Eyes...

Okay,

Back to online land. Crashed on UB, account kaput. Tried Full Tilt, same answer, $400 gone. So, what is a man to do? Go back home to PokerStars. I deposited $300 to get the 20% bonus. Earned the bonus on Saturday doing the 3-6 full ring game route. Made money in the game also. I also signed up for a $20 with rebuys satellite to the First WCOOP Event, a $500 NL event. Won the seat.

3065 players started. $306,000 to the winner! All in a days work. 325 players make the money. Play bad early, get down to 500 with a bad beat. I worked it baby. Work it, use it, work it. Get up to 9,000 in chips and have double the average stack. Lose 2,000 to a guy dying to race I have AKs v. JJ. Brick off, okey dokey. Still have an average stack. Then this hand comes up.

I do not typically steal from the button because it is so obvious, mid ways to late in a tournament you are inviting a very big reraise and serious chip risk. The blinds are 100-200, 25 ante and I have 6,000. Folds to me on the button, I have 77. I raise to 800. The SB goes all in for 5,100 total. BB folds. I call instantly, thinking that I really would have to against the SB. He has A8, so its a race. I lose with the board comes 10-J-Q-K. Sigh. I go out with AKs UTG and lose to 32 off suit who called from the BB. I was happy with my play, I went out around 900/3065. Sigh. Getting there...

LAST NIGHT 10 W/REBUYS

1350 players. I get DEEP. I actually was 923/925 soon after the rebuys are done. I get KK, double up, flop the nut str8, double up. Steal a couple and I am back in it. We make the money at 135. at 110 left I make a standard raise in the CO with 55. Button thinks FOREVER (with clock) and goes in for about 90% of my stack. I instacall. He has JJ. Oops. Oh yes, this is PRESTO we are talking about here, so I hit my 5 on the flop and double up. two hands later in mid position, one limper, I raise to 5x BB with AQ spades, folds to him he calls. Flop comes all spades, and str8 coordinated with the 5710. He checks I bet 70% of the pot, he calls. Turn is the off suit J, he checks, I move in, he calls with 89 and the 9 spades. Oops, drawing dead with the str8. I now am in 6th. I move around and then get bounced 49th by this hand:

15th in chips. UTG QQ. I raise 3x BB. Folds to mid position player who immediately goes all in, he has me covered by about 60k. Folds to me, I call without a thought, figuring we be racin' and stuff. But he has 77. Oops on his part, right? Nah, the seven comes on the river and I am out. If I win the pot, I am third in chips and rocking to really deep. 49/1350 is not shabby, but one card away from REALLY deep.

So I am back on Stars, and the local tournaments are now dead. Other games are slipping, so I will be making a trip in two weeks to Metropolis to check out the NL game and to Louisville in October to check out the circuit event.

Until next time...

Good Luck and See You at the Felt......................