Nice little afternoon...

I had a bit of a gruelling day on the grind on Friday afternoon, while waiting for Stef to finish work, I was depleting my bankroll away and not getting very lucky, I came close to making the money in quite a few tournaments but getting nailed near the bubble in the few MTT’s that I went in. I was a bit peeved until I entered a $15 turbo 45 man SNG, only to make the final table coming 4^th in chips, I lately I have really been improving my final table play and I have had some good results when making final tables.

We got down to 5 players when I ran 99 > AK of shorter stack and for him to hit an A on the flop and for me not to improve. I did however manage to play my short stack incredibly and finally make it to heads up when one of my opponents from Switzerland, pokegrandma was pulling some amazing beats, in fact he got a back-door runner-runner straight to knock out the 3^rd place and put us heads up.

Pokergrandma had everything going for him luck and a massive chip stack, he was over a 5:1 advantage with me have around 14k. I slowly stole blinds and reluctantly folded a few hands until I get dealt a beautiful starting hand for heads up, 9♥ 9♦. And thought this is it, he calls his small blind an I min-raise my big blind to 4k and he calls,

The Flop come J♦ 10♦ 4♥, I open shove for the remainder of my stack and he calls, turning over 10♣2♠, the board ran 6♦2♦, completing my flush and doubling me up. It seemed the luck had turned.  

And it was time to battle!

I had now just above 23k in chips and my opponent had over 40k,

My next big hand is A K, and I was limping a bit, so not to get rid of this monster I limp, he 3x I call, knowing I’m not folding any flop, with position – as he has to act first, he indeed does and shoves on a 10 high board, and I snap and my A K holds against his Q J.

I am now chip leader, and funny enough I can’t remember the last hand, I’m pretty sure he open shoved me pre-flop and I was holding an A, and I called and he didn’t connect. It was a nice win, it boosted my bankroll $192.26 – to well over $230 and making my much earned profit of $50 for the few hours that I spent. I left to pick up Stef with a smile on my face and we enjoyed a nice evening out with a few friends on the town.

I didn’t screen shot, as I know they look better, but here is my history:

PokerStars Tournament #414863423, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $13.78/$1.22 USD
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $620.10 USD
Tournament started 2011/07/15 17:43:24 AEST [2011/07/15 3:43:24 ET]
Tournament finished 2011/07/15 19:09:15 AEST [2011/07/15 5:09:15 ET]
 1: smokinsam69 (Australia), $192.26 (31.004%)
 2: pokegrandma (Switzerland), $133.32 (21.499%)
 3: 3rd Bro (Netherlands), $102.31 (16.498%)
 4: alexisdonk (Canada), $77.51 (12.499%)
 5: Mastamaschek (Germany), $55.80 (8.998%)
 6: blowflyz (Australia), $37.20 (5.999%)
 7: ozzieowen (United Kingdom), $21.70 (3.499%)
 8: sayago1962 (Spain),
 9: morrri (Poland),

You finished in 1st place.

Now I have to continue to build my money that I lost so I can hit Crown Casino next weekend with confidence. Will keep you up dated through the week…