On the Scottwire

Wednesday night I played in the PSO league $5 tourney on Absolute.

I had a wake up call when I called down a player with second pair and he ended up having aces. I realized how passive I've been playing lately and it was time to get back to the tight aggressive winning way.

Thursday night I went into the Chiptalk tourney with a winning attitude and an aggressive mindset. I put away other distractions and focused on the tournament instead of multitasking like I usually do. Boy did it pay off.

45 entrants and with around half the field gone, I broke away from the pack with some good hands. I broke 10000 chips at the 100/200 level and was the chip leader while second in chips only had about 6k. As we got down to the final table, I picked my spots and knocked out some small stacks as mine built up to about 17k while the next biggest stack was about 8 or 9k.

I was really happy with the way I played the big stack until we got to about 4 handed. The other players were very aggressive with their short stacks and I think I didn't try to steal blinds enough.

When it got down to heads up we were about even in chips. I lost a few hands and then got all in with A3 and was called by KQ. My ace held up and I was up about 55k to 10k. Unfortunately I couldn't put him a way at that point and he built back up to even. I reraised him all in again with A6, he thought a while and called with A8. I almost didn't even notice the board pair and a couple of higher cards than his 8 gave us a split and saved me from being down to 5k chips.

We battled a while and as blinds went up I managed to trap him with AA and finally put it away with my 3rd Chiptalk tourney win :)

I've played a little over the weekend so far as well.

My Sit and Go challenge is partially resumed as I played 4 of them, with finishes of 1, 3, 4, 4. The two bubbles sucked.

I also played a little bit of the NL cash games on UltimateBet and made about $60 :)

So a nice few days at the tables and hopefully more to come!

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