Posted by Johnnymac 5:51 PM
My results lately:

1.) On Wednesday night I played in a small 10 person S&G with the Rosedale Crowd and ended up finishing 2nd and cutting a deal for a (very) small piece of the 1st place money with Jayson at the end. My biggest made hand in a whole 3.5 hours of poker was making a runner runner ass-ended gutshot 8 high straight from the BB and with one caller for 1xBB bet after checking around twice. No big straights, no flushes, and no boats, for sure. I was pretty proud of the results that night because I feel I played good poker without ever crushing people with monster hands. I was patient and I played strategically. At least that's the way I remember it, others might say I got lucky a couple of times in even-money situations at best, but I'm still happy with it.

2.) On Saturday I played in Juan's monthly rebuy tournament on the North Side and basically ended up sitting there for four hours until the blinds got too big for me to play anymore. The cards ran cold all day and the only pots I ever won were just barely enough to get me back to even. I was disappointed in the results, but not angry or bothered by anything - the difference between Wednesday and Saturday, besides the size (10 vs 50) was that the Rosedale Crowd - guys like Jayson, Pinion, Pat M, and Morris - is a lot more sophisticated than Juan's crowd and thus some of the moves I made last week worked because those guys I just listed are generally much better poker players than most of the guys who were there on Saturday. Timely aggressive bets had a lot of fold equity on Wednesday, on Saturday they were worthless because any bet, no matter how large or aggressive, was always going to get called if anyone else at the table had any piece of the board. If you didn't get good cards to showdown on Saturday you were not going to win. It was disappointing in the sense that it was a pretty soft tournament and I never even contended.

3.) I was a little down after Juan's tourney so I went home and decided to play a small microlimit 5 table S&G on poker stars after Mrs Johnnymac had left for the evening to go out with a friend who had a pair of 4th row tickets to the Faith Hill concert at Toyota Center. I won the S&G. The cards were better all around but once I got to heads up I won easily because the other guy called way too many hands and hardly ever raised from his BB. Nice. (Aggressive does not necessarily = Loose, btw)

4.) I was feeling big with my $14 win so I parlayed that into a $20 two table S&G and finished third and ended up winning all of my money back from Juan's game. Nice again.

5.) I went back to the microlimit 45 player tourneys and played once on Sunday and twice yesterday and finished 11th, 12th and 15th, respectively. The first two ending on bad beats and the second one last night ending because I had one too many glasses of wine with dinner last night.

Those are the result from the past 7 days. Mrs Johnnymac is sick today with a sinus infection and is already asleep at 6:15 at night, so I am probably going to play another small S&G before I go to bed tonight.

Tomorrow, there is another of the free broker-trader boondoggle tournaments that I am planning on attending. So far, in the four I have competed in since these guys started these things about a year ago I have either been done in the first hour or have made the final table and not quite made it to the prize level, which generally is pretty nice for something that is free. At the last one first prize was a pair of Continental 48-state travel vouchers, at the one before that it was 4 dugout tickets to a baseball game, and at the one before that it was an Ipod Nano. They're not fooling around and I need to quit missing out.

Then it will be Vegas on Thursday night. I get to town at 7:30 and I think I'll head to the hotel to check in and then, since I will have a car, I'll drive by In'n'Out burger for dinner, seeing that we have no InO here in Houston, and damn I love those burgers. After that I'll go to watch the pre-WSOP freak show at the Rio, as described yesterday, and then I'm not so sure. I think it will be either the 11:00PM tournament at Sahara or the 2:00AM tournament at Aladdin, or maybe both, because my dad's plane arrives at 9:30 the next morning and I'll be going back and forth to the airport all afternoon to pick everyone else up and there will be no time for any of the 10:00AM or Noon tournaments on Friday. Maybe I'll just end up at MGM playing NL there, instead. I have no idea.

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