Horrendous Online Saturday

Saturday was a complete mess on the online tournament front - I cashed once, played the FTOPs Omaha for $500, rebought seven times in the FTOPS $100 rebuy, and by the time the dust had settled I was in the hole for about $2400 which is about 25% of my current online bankroll. I guess I need to have a think about bankroll strategy from now on, as much more of this and my online reserves will be depleted to nothing, and I don’t really want to reload if I can help it.

In the Omaha I put someone in with my top set against their open ended straight flush draw and they got there. That left me down to about 3k from a 6k starting stack, and someone called my pot bet on the turn, again against my top set to hit their gutshot wheel draw and stacked me on the river, when I didn’t believe that someone would have called me with that draw.

The Full Tilt $322 short handed ended early when I ran QQ into KK on a very aggro table. The FTOPs $100 rebuy saw me build up quite a good stack after a rebuy splurge early on. However, after about 2 hours I held AQ on a Queen high board with nut flush backdoor draw, but the other guy had AA and that was that.

The middle section of the night saw me run very badly - I lost a string of all ins - AA v KK, KK v JJ and about 5 hands were I was dominating (AQ v AJ, AK v AQ etc). Combining this with losing 3 races in a row left me sitting alone at 3am in front of the PC, with a manical look in my eye chain smoking. It also began to affect my game - badly. For about 2 hours I went from loose aggressive to a horrible spewey maniac, which clearly didn’t generate any results.

I pulled myself together in the last hour or so and placed about 15th in the FT 40k guaranteed, although given I was 2nd with 18 remaining with a 150k stack wasn’t much to shout about. I four bet shoved the loose aggressive chip leader with AQ and of course he had AK. Well played me…