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Here is the story. Last night i played in the pocketfives.com Micro Mayhem challenge last night as usual. Here is the deal with this thing, it is made up of about 12 or so micro tournaments ( $3 and under ). You can play in as many as you like, but only your top 3 finishes count. Now, i could care less about most of the tournaments that i play in for this as they are all $1 buy-ins and well, it is only $1. There are three that are part of this that i take my time in every week and that is the two $3 buy-in and the $3 re-buy. The rebuy is tops though. 1st place in that is usually arond $4,000. That is the 1 that i really want to win. Last night i busted out of the 1st $3 tourney pretty fast when my AK ran into A9. The 2nd $3 i can not tell you what happened as i had about 10 tournaments going on at that time. Probably shoved in with pocket 2's thinking that it was a $1. The re-buy made me sick the way that i lost. I was dealt KK under the gun and i decided to limp in hoping someone would raise. it limp folds to the button and he raises it up with AQ. I re-raise him and he calls. It is just us two now. Flop comes xxQ. I fire into it, he raises it and i shove all in. He insta calls and i am ahead. Then the turn card brings another Q and i am done. I was so pissed off that i tilted off all my chips in the other tournaments that i was in. In the last tournament that i played though i managed to make it to the Final Table ( that is all we care about....remember ). While i was at the final table i did manage to make the worst call in my life. It folded around to me in the SB. I had a little over 200,000 in chips. The BB had around 60,000. I look down and see 35o.....a premium lol..... I raised it up 3x with blinds at 3000/6000. The BB flat calls. The flop came out A23. I have middle pair and a gutshot. I bet out. The BB shoves over the top of me. For some odd reason i decide to call. He had AJ, but i hit another 3 on the turn to win. I got berated after that by the other players. I was tired and i didn't care if i lost, i would still have had 160,000 in chips. Anyway, i ended up coming in 2nd. I just can not crack 1st place. Gonna play a little tonight so i will keep you posted.......................later

I finally have made back to back final tables. Not that this is something that i think i should be doing on a regullar basis or anything, but fuzz did it a couple months ago and i was getting sick of hearing about it. This was done i 2 Pokerstars 180 man SNG's. Even though it is a small field, it still feels pretty good. I was in a position to make 3 in a row, but this was the day after the 2 in a row and i was playing very loose in cocky and ended up getting crushed with 66 on a board of 345. I called an all in from some guy who had 55. I hit the 7 for the straight on the turn, ( here i thought that i was unstoppable because enroute to the 2 final tables i did not lose 1 race when all in ahead and when i was behind, it didn't matter because i sucked out ) But then the other guy hit a 4 on the river for a full house. GG me. Now the only thing that fuzz has over me is the he has a 1st place finish and i have 1 2nd and 2 3rd's. Tonight is micro mayhem. Hopefully more final table to come.

I played in the pocketfives.com micro mayhen=m this past tuesday. this is a great event run every week by mr_blonde6 on pokerstars. if you play on pokerstars, or on any site for that matter,i suggest you go to www.pocketfives.com and sign up for an account. anyway, i did really bad in most of the tournies that night. in the last one that i played in, i made the final table and ended up busting in 3rd. woot woot. the money wasn't that good, but i love making final tables. today i played in a $3 multi table and busted out in 180th place out of 1200. not too bad. got a busy MTT weekend ahead of me. i will keep you posted on the results.

After a few bad days where I couldnt even crack the money in the 5.50 sit n gos, I came back today. Played all day, hopefully I'll get some sleep at work tonight. Cashed in 5 of 7 sng's with only one first. Took a flyer and played in the 36 + 3 sattelite to the Big sunday tourney which I crapped out in 30th (seats to the top 9). Then decided to end the day with a 4.40 180 man, since I didn't have the time for a big field MTT. Played pretty well, but got handicapped with about 50 to go when I had q2 in the BB, saw the flop for free, hit top pair (not thriled with my kicker), checked around and tripped up on the turn. Thought I'd throw a value bet on the river but like an idiot didn't factor in that with a board of jq8qT that the other guy in the pot might have limped in middle position with AK. Sure enough he did and I lost a lot of chips. Could have went broke, but the guy was nice and didn't raise me on the river. Anywho, treaded water until about 30 left and decided I'd chuck 'em in with a6, got lucky and drew out on AT. Very next hand against the same guy I got AKc and shoved on his mini raise (QQ) tripped up the aces and I was off. Ended up going out third when my AT bumped against the chip leaders KJ. Hit my ace, he turned a straight, gg me. Good day overall, and it feels good to be back.
Heres a couple tourneys that I thought I played well in for your enjoyment including the 180 3rd place today.

View the Tourneys through the PokerXFactor Replayer

Short Stack Ninja - http://www.pokerxfactor.com/servlet/pxf?a=mv&t=myhand&handid=10782&fn=1026_20060606_040217

180 SnG Win - http://www.pokerxfactor.com/servlet/pxf?a=mv&t=myhand&handid=10748&fn=1026_20060605_220926

180 SnG 3rd - http://www.pokerxfactor.com/servlet/pxf?a=mv&t=myhand2&handid=12234&fn=1026_20060615_2101251026

Up until the last 2 days it has been pretty rough in the online poker world for me. About 2 weeks ago I took 5 really bad beats 5 different games in a row that emptied my pokerstars account completely. In all 5 games I was all in with a Pocket Pair and up against a lower pocket pair, and in all 5 the other guy hit a set on the flop and I was gone. The last time was the icing on the cake though cause after I lost I threw my laptop and it crashed my hard drive. That cost about 300 to get fixed and fucked my money up until payday. So the other day I decided to download all the other poker sited that I know of to see if I finally wanted to try outa site other than pokerstars. I think I have SNG site, but stars is still tops for MTT's. Anyway, 1 of the sites that I tried out was Ultimate Bet. I guess they have this promo goin on once a month that you can play a freeroll to a monthly Million dollar tourney. You only get one shot at this per month too I guess. Well that was the 1st tourney that I played on there and I ended up placing, so I get to play in the next round which is next Saturday. Today I played in a couple 180 man SNG's on stars. I came in 12th in the 1st 1 for a cash and then got busted by some moron in the 2nd 1 that called my AK all in with K8. He hit trips on the flop and i was gone. This guy got a few comments sent his way courtesy of me because earlier in the game he was talkin about all the donkeys that were in this tourney and all they do is shove everything in there and pray. He actually had the nerve to explain his call with the phrase " they were soooted" that is like the biggest donkey comment that you can make. The thing that made it worse what the fact that i had him covered by 50 chips. I can see someone ( never would i do it ) making that call if they had someone dominated. Oh well. After that i played a 5 SNG and took 1st in that. I was about done for the day, but then i saw that someone had put together an unofficial PXF tourney. PXF is www.pokerxfactor.com it is a training site that i am a member at and it is %100 guaranteed to improve your game. I almost didn't register cause i didn't want to blow $11 on a long shot. ( there were only 19 players, but PXF tournies are hard to crack cause everyone is better than average because of the site and you really have to pick up cards to be able to win ) finally i just said screw it and played. It looked pretty bad early on as i could not hit a flop, but i went on a little rush and ended up coming in 3rd. Should have been higher but i made a bad read on a guy when he shoved on me after i raised, it looked like a text book re-steal to me beacuse i had raised his blinds alot when we were 3 way and he was getting short stacked. I had KJs and he had AJ. I missed and was out about 3 hands later. This cash was good for $30, so i ended the day up 40 and can now pay fuzz back for a backing deal that we made last week. That is it for now, more to come when i feel like it.