The last couple of days on Fulltilt have been like a freaking roller coaster ride. I decided to deposit a little more money on ft so that I could play higher limits as I’ve felt that although I’ve not been running well my play has been on and I was interested to see how I’d do playing in the next buy-in’s up. Instead of $1 and $2 tournaments I decided to try $3, $5, and $6 ones.
It started out not so well…the first 9 tournaments I tried I only cashed in one and that was a 3rd place finish in an stt. I was ready to throw in the towel but hubby wouldn’t let me. He said just keep playing and eventually it will work out for you.
I ended yesterday down about $60 from my new deposit and was heartbroken but determined to try again today. Again it started off not so great with the first 3 things I played in, no cashes. The next tournament I tried was an omaha h/l satellite for a mini ftops. It cost $1.50 and top 5 got a seat and 6th and 7th got cash. I was chip leader with 12 players left and then I made a donkey move and lost most of my chips and ended up going out in 7th place and winning $5.75 with bounties instead of winning a $24+2 seat.
I tried another mini ftops satellite and went out 4 before the money, sigh. This time I got it in with the best hand and got 2 outed, nothing you can do about that. I then tried five $6 turbo nlhe stts and only cashed in one of them, $16.20 for a 2nd place finish.
I’ve also been trying the 90 player nlhe deepstack turbo ko sngs (say that ten times fast lol). I used to do very well in these and was looking forward to trying them again. I tried a $6 one and went out about half way through. I tried two $3 ones and finished in 12th in both of them, missing the cash by three people but winning some bounties to make up the difference. The last one I played was very interesting and quite a roller coaster ride. I was determined to cash in this one. I had AA twice, once I got all my money in just to find out I was up against…AA, sigh. The second time I doubled through the person. I ended up finishing in 2nd place after the turd burgular outdrew me when he called my A8 suited all-in with K7 off and hit a 7, sigh. Overall I’m very happy to have cashed and it brought quite a bit of my lost money from the day before back into the fold.
I just need to get used to not playing $1 and $2 tournaments anymore and gaining back my confidence so I can keep moving up in levels.
