Better day...

Even thought I've been running like absolute crap in cash games this month. My tournament results (although very depressing with some ugly finishes) have been a good profit for me this month. I am not positive but I think I am up about 500$ this month in tournaments/sngs, and that is with out any great finishes.

Today I played a short cash session while playing a 45 man and 90 man sng (yesterday I won 2 26$ tokens with my ftps). I ALMOST had a winning session. It was only about 400 hands (just trying to get my ftps for the day), was up about 50$ but had a bad streak towards the end of my mini session and ended up down 30$. So I still haven't snapped my streak of 7 straight losing sessions.

In the 45 man sng I limp reraised with AKh, and got 2 callers. I shoved on a K9x board with 2 clubs. ATc calls and spikes it on the turn, go figure. However in the 90 man turbo KO, I got off to a nice start and cruised my way deep. I was a card rack and only had one big downturn late where I lost 11k when a guy outflopped my 77 with AQ. Other than that I abused everyone, and won races/ held with the best hand at the final table. HU the guy was tight preflop but way too spewy after the flop. I knew I could play small ball with him, and wear him down and eventually catch him after the flop.

I had about 120k and he had me covered by about 13k. Blinds 3k/6k, he raised to 18k, I call with K7o. Flop KQ2... perfect flop. I planned to lead out, and see if he would jump at the bait and shove allin (which he had done a few times to far, and I had folded everytime). I bet out 14700, and he thought for a second and shoved in for his 100k+, I called off all my chips and he shows Q4. Turn Q, and I take 2nd place. Gross suckout, cost me 225$ (the difference between 2nd and 1st place money).

I decided that the 90 man KO turbos are way better sngs than the normal 45 mans. Here is my reasoning, some people are afraid of the 90mans because they are turbos (I used to be). But here are the facts. The 90 man sngs have 5 minute blind levels, while the 45 man sngs have 6 minutes. Hardly any difference there. However the 90 mans are double stack so you start with twice as many chips which leaves a lot more play in the earlier levels, which I like very much. Also the 90 mans have antes in the later levels while the 45 mans do not. This is great for me, because I can run people over when they tighten up late in the tournament and helps me sustain/grow my stack.

I used to play alot of 45 man sngs, but no longer... I have concluded that it is way better for me to be playing the 90 man turbo KOs instead. These are great for working on my tournament skills and finish up in less than 2.5 hours. Ironically the 45 man "non-turbos" most likely have higher variance for me because of the small starting stack.

Tomorrow I am playing in the Noon circuit event at Harrah's. Hopefully I can run well and make up for how I got screwed in the Oceans tournament. In the Oceans tournament I had sub-par cards, but made almost all the right moves. If I can play almost as well at Harrah's and just run better it could be a great tournament for me.

-Boooom