Clueless Wonder

I probably should have written this post yesterday morning while it was still fresh in my mind. However, I've been busy and not really wanting to take the time. I guess it has to do with not having the great memory of some people. Most of the time after I've played all day I have a tough time remembering enough details about a particular hand or momment to put down on digital paper. So anyway, this past Saturday I was doing what I typically do which is play poker and watch football. I decided that I wanted to go take another shot at a decent score. With the only money that I still had online at FTP and my Neteller account dry I decided to try out Click2Pay. They offer about the same features as Neteller, to include an ATM card for easy withdrawals. Right now Click2Pay works with FullTilt, UltimateBet, and Bodog. So the only site that I ever play on that doesn't accept it is Stars. Once I put some money in there, I threw some on Bodog to try out some of their MTTs. I had played in a few in the past but not enough to get a really good feel for the site. What I've found is that there is plenty of play available. I believe that they and UB have the best structures to be found. Early on, it is much more passive than some of the MTTs on Stars or FTP. I think that is due to the fact that there is just not as much pressure to chip up early. So I play in a $4 tournament without rebuys that had a field just a shade over 200 people. By playing mostly ABC poker (at least compared to my normal game) I found myself at the final table having gotten my money in bad only once that I can think of. No hand histories or bad beat stories to be found here. Mostly just unremarkable poker. I had won some big pots early while holding the nuts and was in the chip lead for most of the tournament after the first hour. At the final table people were still very passive compared to what I'm used to and so I just used my stack to punish them. I ended up taking the whole thing down for a tidy sum of $220. Not too bad for a $4 buyin that didn't take 16 friggin hours to finish like the smaller buyin ones on stars. On Sunday, I proceeded to attempt to satellite my way into both the large buyin tournaments on Bodog and FTP. I accomplished both on my 2nd try, winning a $8 36-seat SnG on FTP and a $22 5-seat SNG on Bodog. At this point I was pretty happy just with that outcome since I was essentially freerolling with a total of $100k in 1st place prize money on the line between the two tournaments. I won't go into any detail in the 250k on FTP. I finished in 400th out of the almost 1800 people in it after I lost most of my chips with QQ against A9. I've been having that happen a lot lately but it just means that I'm playing well enough to win the whole thing if I hit as the favorite most of the time. I also outlasted johnnybax, who was seated to my right for about the first 1 1/2 hours. As I stated earlier about Bodog, the structure is really great. It allows you to be really patient if you're not getting cards but also mix it up a bit, take some stabs, etc... Using my typical agressive early style, I proceeded to methodically chip up at nearly a constant rate to where i was in the top 30 or so for the entire half of the tournament until well after the bubble had burst. So anyway I'm actually loving it as people drop at the final table as each spot is another $1k in my pocket until 3rd place which jumps up to $9k. And that's where I finally dropped out when I made the mistake of pushing with K high into A9 on a 993 board So anyway I now have yet another high water mark for cashing in a poker tournament. I'm happy with the way that I've been playing and can't wait to hit AC up again soon.