Big WIN on FullTilt!

Whatsup? I thought I'd update the world on the latest big poker event. This past Sunday night I played in the nightly 35K GTD on FT. The event had a $69+6 buy-in, ran 800+ players and lasted for 6 1/2 hrs...I ended up 2nd overall for a $8234 payout! Oh, the hand I busted out on was sic. I raised pre-flop w/77...after a delay bdubs called...flop has a 9xx with 2 diamonds...I had decided while he was taking his time on the pre-flop call that if he did call, I was moving in with whatever showed on the flop...feel pretty good about the flop...he times all the way down - 3 sec left in the bank, and calls my all-in...he's got me outchipped by 1BB...turn is a blank, river is a fucking Q...figures! Tough way to lose 5k (the difference between 1st and 2nd), but the payout is still my largest on-line so far! I'm pretty psyched with the finish. So is the wife, for that matter! LOL That's 2 large payouts in a month!





I really feel like my tournment play is getting stronger. With that said, I am actively looking for around for some info about strengthening my play during the latter part of the big tournaments. Whether its just a "dealer" problem - it seems like I go card dead soon after making it into the money in most tournaments, or a lack of aggression trying to "climb the ladder", I'm not sure. I really think it's more of the former. I have developed a relatively aggressive style for trying to amass chips to get the win, as opposed to just trying not to bubble or make the final table.

I just started playing a lot on FullTilt a couple of months ago. Before that, I played almost exclusively on a smaller site called Bugsy's Club. It was a pretty solid site - many of the same players playing in all the bigger payout tournaments, but, as with many things - it has changed. For what are probably obvious reasons (lack of players), they have changed many of their games. They ran some strong GTD tournaments ($1200 GTD w/100 runners, etc.) and they always started with 10k in chips with a decent blind schedule...always seemed like a good place to sit and play. Recently, they have gotten rid of many of their GTDs and moved to mostly re-buy tournaments with about a half-dozen bounties in the field. Just not the place for me right now.

Enuf for now...just some ramblings about my latest poker stuff...wish I was in Vegas!

Later