On the Scottwire

Cash games were going well. I was up almost $80 and then disaster happened.



.25/.50 NL



99 in the BB

UTG raises to $1

bunch of callers

I call



A93 flop with 2 clubs WOO

I check, UTG bets $2.50, every folds to me and I ...

scottwire: raises $7.50 to $10

Skyhand: raises $45.90 to $55.90 and is all-in



I should have known he had AA sigh.



Played the $11 rebuy but sucked it up and I finally got KK all in against AT who hit the AA55x board.



Played a 180 $22 SNG and I was 2nd in chips at the 50/100 level with 7100. Then I lost every coin flip and got pushed off hands left and right and finally lost AK to TT :( Finished 45th. sigh again



So instead of being up like $50+, I finished the night about -$10.

Almost had a nice stack brewing at one point. That is, until I raised with QQ in early position, guy in late position pushed all in and he was a loose reraiser so I called. He shows AJ. Flop Jxx, river J and I'm down to 3400 at 100/200. I luckily got aces at the right time a few hands later when UTG goes all in for 4k, another guy calls, I call and BB calls. so AA holds up and I quadruple up + to around 16000.



Work my way up to 25k at 600/1200 but that was as high as I got. Lost another chunk at 800/1600 and then snuck into the money. 270 paid and I finished 260 when KJ runs into KQ. Another cash though which is always nice :)

PokerStars Tournament #39824499, No Limit Hold'em

Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00

2134 players

Total Prize Pool: $86810.00 

Tournament started - 2007/01/09 - 22:00:00 (ET)



Dear scottwire, 



You finished the tournament in 260th place.

A $86.81 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

After a couple of days of ugliness, I got into the money in the $11 rebuy tonight. Getting closer to the final table at least.




PokerStars Tournament #39376885, No Limit Hold'em



Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00



2304 players



Total Prize Pool: $89120.00



Tournament started - 2007/01/07 - 22:00:00 (ET)







Dear scottwire,







You finished the tournament in 128th place.



A $98.04 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

After the nice start to the new year, I went 3 multi table tourneys in a row without a cash.



On a whim, I decided just to check out what was happening on Full Tilt. I only had $4 left on the site after getting creamed there lately.



I saw a $22, 90 man double stack (start with 3k chips instead of 1500) SNG filling up with a pro in it, Lee Watkinson. I decided what the hell and quickly deposited and jumped in just in time.



I played pretty well and disaster almost struck. My wireless network decided to wreak havok on my laptop and I couldn't get back on. My wife installed Full Tilt on her machine just so I could keep playing. Blinds were 400/800 and there were only 12 of us less, 9 make the money. I had 12k chips and we had 6 at the table so blinds were coming around fast. I finally got on her computer with a little over 10k.



I had ATs on the button and raised to 2k. SB was an aggressive player and reraised to 6k (he only had 8500). I thought about it for a while but my gut told me he was just making a play. I reraised all in and He called with K4s and my hand held up :)



We finally got into the money on the final table. 8 of us left and then the hand of fate happened as usual. I always seem to get busted this way.



blinds 600/1200.

Folds around to SB who raises to 6k (he has me covered with 26k, I have 20k).



I have AK in BB and push. He thinks about it a long while and calls with 44 and his hand holds up and I'm done in 8th for $54 :(



I WILL WIN ONE OF THESE ONE DAY DAMMIT

I played a $22, 18 table SNG tonight. 18 players get paid. First one I've ever tried. I was thinking this may suit me well as I enjoy multitable tournaments and I want the payouts to be meaningful but not have to take 6 hours to play an entire tournament.



I didn't play all that great but I got my money in when it counted and a couple of nice suckouts help too. 64s owns JJ when you suck out a flush :)



I snuck into the money then I had JJ hold up against AQ. I then got nothing else good and the table was very active and I never really had a chance to steal blinds. At 800/1600 I got down to 12k and we were down to 10 players. 18-10 all get double their buy-in then the money moves up from there.



5 handed on the table I have K2s on the button and decide to push but SB wakes up with AK. Turned a flush draw but the river didn't help and I bubbled the final table.



My $22 won me $43.20



I played the $3 rebuy again too but got my QQ all in against AK who hit the ace and I was done somewhere around 1100th I think.



Tourney play it is! Might hit a couple of cash tables now though. Going to try to get Silverstar and maybe Goldstar on Pokerstars. I have a bunch of bonuses to still work off anyway. Must win!

I got close last night but not close enough.



I outlasted almost 3300 people but still came up short in the $3 rebuy, finishing 77th.



Not a bad finish at all, but it only paid $64.98. The 6k first place money looked a lot better :)



I have now played 4 rebuys in the last 3 days and finished in the money in 3 of them.



1/2/2007 - $3 rebuy - (spent $9) - 3360 players - finished 77- paid $64.98

1/1/2007 - $3 rebuy - (spent $6) - 3734 players - finished 671 - paid $19

12/31/2006 - $11 rebuy - (spent $22) - 2273 players - finished 203 - paid $72.93



So I'm up about $100 after 4 rebuy tourneys but I've lost that and more at the cash tables.



I'll post a 2006 year end report soon, but I can't seem to find my groove on the cash tables these days. I've been calling down too much it seems.



I am going to play a lot more rebuys and maybe some $22 180 person tourneys. Maybe I should get back to NL cash games instead of limit as well. Guess we'll see!