Steaming…

It appears an upsetting beat as had me steaming for most of the day, giving away 3 buy-in’s, I’ve just got off my fourth which sadly was another buy-in lost and would usually end it here, but I feel I played as best as I could in this last game so I think I’ll sit in another game later, as I won’t be able to play tomorrow, so would like to reach a couple more points today towards my bonus to make up for it, though of course I’m only returning as I think I have a shot at winning, not to just get the points.

Here’s the hand that did most of the damage, I think I played it as well as I could have.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1770499

This was the final hand, I expected him to call, having raised the pot, but expected to be behind AQ or AK, or even a pocket pair, unfortunately I didn’t dominate him for long.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1770503

In other news, I have just found out that I am the very happy winning of a give away on the HPT forums, and have won an Ultimate Dealer Button.

http://forums.homepokertourney.com/index.php/topic,12918.0.html

Thank you NutN

Miserable Day

Had a pretty miserable day so far today, played in two sit-n-go’s so far and finished 6th in each. I’m still not confident on adjusting my usual game depending on what stage of the tournament I’m at, and I think it affected me in these games.

I’m looking forward to getting this bolted down so I can concentrate on playing my game rather then having to re-evaluate my usual decisions because of where I’m at in the tournament.

On a positive note I’ve been playing more razz on the play tables and I’m getting used to the format and am starting to enjoy it, like I knew I would. Despite being a low limit play game, I’m still surprised by the amount of idiot plays I see, one guy today was capping the betting with a queen low (or should I say high), the worst I could do was a 9 low and when I made my 8 low he still kept betting at me.