Brag Post

So I won my first multi-table tournament (freezeout) last night. I outlasted 91 players in an $8.80 tournament to take down about $230 bucks. Not life changing, but very encouraging. I started off doubling up on the second hand after flopping top set against an overpair, but pretty much folded for most of the next two hours, occasionally stealing a pot here and there to stay even. Then, right before things got desperate I doubled up on two consecutive hands to vault me into 3rd in chips with 18 to go. Cruised to the final four players and then had a disaster where I took a bad read and doubled up a player in a weird hand. That left me with about 6 or 7 big blinds with four players left. At this point I had about 7k, two players had between 20k-30k , and one player had over 100k. So at this point I commented to Catherine that we were pretty much playing for 2nd, barring some miracle. Fortunately though I was able to steal some blinds and antes, thanks to my weak tight opponents. I won some pots after that and was able to work my way back to 50k. Then the 3rd place player busted the 4th place player, I busted him when I made him think I was bluffing on a hand that he shouldn't have been in in the first place. This gave me a slight chip lead going into heads up. First hand of heads up the other guy raises, I had 1010 and decided to move in, he called with A9o and I had him drawing dead on the turn. And that was that. I was overall very happy with my play, except for a few hands (including the last one). And now I have a good amount of confidence going into a few trips to Vegas in the next few weeks.

In related news, we still haven't gotten our check for our bankroll. Well, in actuality, we've gotten 1k of it, but that was mostly to cover some expenses we had. Catherine and I have a sneaking suspicion that its not coming, but we haven't lost hope. I really hope we find a way to get some money together so we can play a large amount of poker when we go to Vegas.

In non-related news, I'm exhausted. We've been housesitting for my parents and cat sitting for my sister, so we've been living in the zoo. This has made it nearly impossible to get a solid night's worth of sleep, for two nights in a row. Add to that the fact that I'm super busy at work. Tons of fun.

Catherine is kicking my ass in our WSOP pool. Damn it. Why can't one of my players win? Am I the only one who can win around here!? (i am so cool...)