Clueless Wonder

Well it's about time but I finally made another final table tonight. This was one of the $10 non-guarantee donkaments. The field size was right in my sweet spot and maybe that had something to do with the results, who knows? All I know is about 30 minutes in I hit some big hands and never was lower than 11th the entire rest of the damn thing. Only made one donkey move at the final table but my 40-60 with 78 s000ted took out 3rd place. Then two hands later all the money was in preflop with me holding 55 against A8. Wouldn't ya know that the board would pair the turn AND THE GODDAMN RIVER to take away my pair and I get hurt. Next hand I have AK and push, luckbox wakes up with AA and IGH in 2nd place out of 326 for a decent payday of $521.60. The ending hurt as it was almost $300 more for first but hey I'll take it. I'm also still alive in both the DDs right now at the first break so we'll see how that goes as well.

Finally broke through with my first final table or significant cash since the FTOPs Main Event. Speaking of which you do realize that FullTilt has already announced the schedule for the next one right? Anyway, the 11k guarantee on FullTilt started with over 500 runners at 6pm EST last night for a little over 13k in the prize pool. I've stated this in the past but I think that 500-700 people in the field is optimal for me and this tournament did nothing to disuade of me of that line of thinking. I played very solid the whole way, one once in the first 3 hours being all-in against a bigger stack and ahead every time. Until there were about 40 left, I had seen only 4 showdowns, winning 3 of those. With 20 left I had my first two suckouts of the tourney and they were both pretty huge. Neither was for more than half my stack, but hitting my gutshot with KQ after flopping that and top pair against a badly played (but still had me trapped) AA and then also pushing with an over and OESD when my opponent held TPTK and my over hitting the turn were both finally signs that I would have to mess this up myself and variance would not be taking me down this evening. In the end, I laid down suited connectors that I fell I should have pushed when 3 handed and then pushed with J9 from the BB against a button raise when I did not have fold equity. AT took me out and IGH in 3rd place less than 6 hours in for a $1,500 payday. Not bad and certainly felt good after the run I had been having lately. Either I played well and was getting kicked in the junk or I was playing like every other donkey in the field. Nothing had been working for a few weeks. It also puts my ROI back to a more healthy state which is always a good thing too!