OK, maybe I know a little bit…
Shortly after pissing away another $10 at NL ring tables at PokerStars last night (with blinds of $.1/$.25 you get a lot of dubious plays to fight off), I decided to play the $3 Multi with 1663 of my closest friends.
Finished 82nd, and could have finished higher if I hadn’t run into that buzzsaw with an open ended straight draw and a short stack.
It felt good to actually play decent poker.
Al came to sweat me during my run into the money (top 180 paid), and kept me informed on the Eagles win along the way.
Good cards didn’t hurt, catching my sets with small pairs helped, and I felt like I played about as well as I could have. What’s tough about those tournaments in my opinion is that there are a few people who get lucky enough to be at an all-in festival style table, and immediately rocket out to these gargantuan chip leads. I was the chip leader at my table for awhile with T7000, while the top 30 in chips probably averaged T25000 between them. So while they kept knocking players out and taking all their chips at once, I was slowly nickel and diming my way to glory. Another drawback is that the blinds raise fairly quickly, and before you know it you’re playing T1000/2000 with T100 ante. It gets rough in a hurry.
Regardless, it was a grind (saw less than 19% of all flops over three plus hours), but it was fun.
And nice to feel “back on track” again. To some extent I guess.