Zero To Sixty

Hit the flop with multiple players holding QQ in my hand and in last position. With all three flop cards below 10, the player under the gun went all in. Seeing nothing other than trips and AA or KK as beating me, I figured that I had a good chance on the all-in. Trouble was that I had no bead on the player who went all-in, so I had to basically play the odds.

He turned over KK. Rats!

So I got kicked out with a good stack and in a solid top 200 position (400 people left in the tournament) in a $1K freeroll. Oh well, next time!

Binds were $200, and I folded KJ suited to a $725 raise. If it was a loose player I had a handle on I would have called, but at a new table and an unknown entity… I folded.

After a few days of just drifting for one reason or another, I’m back in the swing of things with the Players Only Monday Night Football Freeroll. It’s a big money freeroll–$1000 with an extra $100 for every point scored during MNF. At first break I’m in 394th place out of 948 remaining players (3,000 players started).

I’m playing incredibly tight, sticking directly to card groups 1-6. So far I’ve won two all-ins with a triple and a full house and lost $500 to a bad beat where I had top pair (kings) and lost to pocket aces. That I didn’t lose all-in is the good message there and indicative of my pretty good play.  We’ll see how it goes.