Been a very busy beaver lately, not so much with poker but more so with life and work and such.
Summer time is here so I have been getting the yard work done after the snow finally melted and that takes a lot of time.
Have another job so now I’m working about 12-16 hours a day at least. Oh well, times are tough and you have to do what you can do. I think I need to be glad I have something to keep my mind busy and it’s nice to be busy with something new, keeps life interesting.
My bankroll was getting up there for a while and I’m not sure if I got lax and stopped playing well or the bad beats just took their toll but I slipped back down to the point where I would have had to start re-thinking my buyin level on a number of tournaments.
I decided to just shore up my game and go with a higher price 1 table SNG and those seem to be my strongest game. Top 3 player’s get paid in this one, 1st and 2nd tie for a 4 buying payout and 3rd gets their buyin back basically. I ended up winning and that was a boost of confidence.
Then I took down 6th in a 90 person multi table event to add a few more dollars to the account, came in on the short stack again though which I need to work on not doing so I stand a better chance of winning but a cash is a cash and my all in to get knocked out got rivered by the chip leader so no big deal.
I entered another one of the same events than this time took down 2nd place for a pretty decent payout, the knock out bonuses alone I got in this tournament were double my entry fee and I would have loved to take down first but quite honestly played bad when it got to three way as I had a slight chip lead and the other was a really low stack and instead of working on taking him out I played to passively and then got chipped down on one questionable laydown. Oh well something to work on and my biggest tournament cash to date so a step in the right direction. I came to the final table 3rd in chips in this tournament which was a real change of pace for myself and made a few plays that I don’t normally do. Also had hands like AA and KK hold up much more often than they usually do which did make the later stages a lot easier than normal.
Bankroll is almost 100 times the starting point after the freeroll win and looking to keep it moving upwards.