Its been a while...........

I was locked out of my blog for a very long time and now I'm back.

A lot has happened since my last post. I'm hoping to be able to catchup with news and to post some new material. As most other bloggers have mentioned I'm going to try not to discuss bad beats that often but invariably it is bound to happen. After all it seems our bust out hands are always the most interesting and worthy of discussion. I bring up these situations not to whine about the beat but normally because I just can't for the life of me figure out what happened or more likely what was my opponent thinking when he made that move. An Example.

Last Sat night I had AA's cracked to eliminate me from two MTT's on Full Tilt, within a 5 minute span. One elimination was a clear AA/JJ bad beat, nuff said, it happens. Unfortunately this one was for a monster stack 2 levels into the money. The other was a situation where a good and unconventional plan worked but the result fell short.

In no time I'll try to summarize the last year as a weak attempt to keep the theme of this blog. Basically my road to improvement. Which to a certain degree I managed. If winning more equals improvement. I make a couple of disastrous out of my bankroll plays that nullified the year.....but that happens I guess.

In a nutshell, I managed to place 4th in the FT 50/50 last fall for about $4k, boosting my FT bankroll to about $5k. At the time I had also built up my PS account to maybe $1,500. Pretty good I think for a low stakes grinder. Unfortunately I just could not wait to turn my new nest egg into big bucks by taking shots in bigger games which did not work out at all. More on that another time.

Cheers for now from the nations capital where it is currently -18c.



I'm in a $24MTT and doing okay with the blinds at 40/80 when I see a bizzare hand unfold in front of me. A gent 2 seats to my right opens PF for $2500 and gets reraised to $4k, the raiser is AI. The original raiser started with about $8k. The caller was AI with AK and hit, beating the mad raiser who tabled 77. I can't understand this play at all. Risking 30BB's PF.......with 77 in Early Position.

Anyway, the very next hand I get AA. Soooo I'm thinking how can I get max value heads up PF. I decide that the villain who just lost $4k may be on tilt and I might get him to donk off his chips if I play it cute and mock his PF raise by doing the same (He is in the BB now). I have just under 50 BB's for I think t3600. To make a short story shorter I bet $2k into the little $120 pot and it checks around to villain who INSTACALLS. I almost shit myself at this bonanza. The flop brings rags and 2 diamonds. I have 1600 left and villain has maybe $3-4k. He leads out about 600 and I jam, he calls. What does he have........K7d......yep called 25BB's PF OOP with K7d. I can't complain, its exactly what I wanted. He didn't even need the river to send me home.

Now here is the thing, It didn't matter how this hand played out because I would never give him credit for a HU flush and he was going to keep betting until I was AI. But seriously, did I play this right by pushing his tilt button? Was it anything but tilt? What does he put me on here to call with a second nut flush draw. 77?