I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!

Haha I love that title.

I finally booked a winning session last night. It's been awhile, but it looks like I got "it" back. I started the day in a 109 on Stars, and while I played it I sat in a couple O8 games on Stars. One was a 10/20 full game, and the other was 15/30. I played for 2:45 in the 10/20 game, and for 1:35 in the 15/30 game. The 15/30 was very juicy, and I ended up winner $652. In the 10/20 I ended up with a small nugget, up $31.50, for an hourly of $157.70.

It felt excellent to finally put up a good winning session, and O8 is such a great game that I feel like I am going to play more of it during my sessions while I play tourneys.

Speaking of tourneys, I bubbled two final tables in tough tourneys last night, going fairly deep into the money in both.

The first was a 109 on Stars, where I came in 13th for $216. Once we got to two tables, my stack was in need of some Viagra, and the only player I recognized in the tourney was my boy The Stein, who was two or three seats to my right with an above average stack. He took a hit or two early in the game and got down to just below average, and then finally busted out when his overpair to a three-baby board got busted when the guy's TP tripped up on the turn. A tough beat for Steiner, and he was out. I was out soon after, in 13th, when I pushed A4 short stacked I believe and didn't improve. I don't even remember what called me, at that point I was pushing with about 90% of the hands I could have been dealt as I was desperately short.

It felt good, however, to finally give a good showing in a tourney. The feeling kept going as I also bubbled the final table of the 109 6max on Full Tilt when I busted in 11th for a cash of $450. I went deep in that one but once again found myself almost hilariously short stacked. I had less than 2BB at one point, and it got to the point where I decided to try a new little strategy for being desperately short stacked late in a tourney. I'll write about it later as I don't want to get into details now, but I think it's relatively good when it works out, but also is good when it doesn't, as it prevents you from going broke when someone wakes up somewhere else with a very big hand.

That cash, plus the other cash and the O8 session put me up $981.20 on the day once you subtract the other few tourneys I played in and didn't get anywhere. As I said earlier, it was a good day and hopefully I'll stay on this track tonight. Right now as I write this I'm sitting in three O8 games, a 5/10, a 10/20, and a 15/30, and I think it'll be a good night.

It's a simple question, would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs?,
Jesse