FULL TILT SUNDAY

This was the first time in awhile that I signed up for a $200 event with the feeling that I could actually win it. I stayed patient and got deep but ultimately went bust when I was a 9:1 favorite. The chip leader was at my table and picking up most pots with aggressive preflop play. He raised in early position with J9 and I called from the small blind with KJh. The flop came J74 with two hearts and I simply fired all in so that it would have an aire of desperation about it as if I was planning that move with any flop. He called and with his 7% success rate, he managed to catch running T8, dodging hearts and taking it down. That was disappointing but after playing my A-game for hours, it was much easier to bust via bad beat than via my usually implosion, so I didn't agonize too much over it.

I entered a $24 HORSE satellite in which the top three won entry to that evening's $200 HORSE event. There were 29 contestants and I played well, got unlucky in my final few hands and finished 4th to claim the $48 booby prize. I bought into the tourney anyways and again I played well, got extremely unlucky towards the end and busted on the bubble - 18/109. It paid 16 and I may have squeaked in if I had enacted operation shutdown, but I chose to play a couple of hands when I was the favorite and the boom fell on the river again and again just to ensure I didn't make the money. Oh well, it was a confidence booster if nothing else to know that I can go deep in a mixed game event.