ftops events #1 and #2

finished event 1 3075/4165.

i was excited to play it all day until i saw the field size. i have a hard time getting up for a tournament when there are that many players in it.

no real interesting hands came up. i played uber tight for the first few laps and just tried to get a read on the players. i called a couple pre-flop raises w/ pairs in position but folded on the flop.

i opened up a bit and ended up bluffing off some chips w/ A9o. picked up a couple pots w/ pre-flop raises and pretty much hovered around 2400. early 2nd hour, utg limps, mp raises and i re-raised w/ QQ and they all folded.

the bust out hand came when i was in the bb w/ about 2500 and blinds of 40/80. utg w/ a 12k stack raised pot, folded to me and i re-raised to 1k w/ AKs, he put it in and i called it off. he had 88 and im pretty sure he folds most of the time but was willing to gamble w/ his stack size.

anyways, that was it for event 1.

i spent all day cramming for the 2nd event, horse. i was trying to get up to speed on the stud games since im a total stud donk.

started off losing in holdem, winning in O8, losing in razz, winning in stud hi and came out of the 1st hour w/ about 50 more chips than i started with.

2nd hour started off great as i ran it up in stud 8, holdem and O8 and had a high water mark of close to 4900 chips.

razz was the last event before the 2nd break and i managed to dust off 1400 chips out of my 4200 chip stack right before the break. once running it off w/ A624 against a short stacks 2346 all-in on 4th street. then i made 3 pair w/ A23 and lost another decent pot.

came back in the 3rd hour to stud hi and had david singer (who was sitting out the entire time) to my left. people started trying to pick off his bring-ins so i got frisky and decided to 3-bet the girl to my right when she completed w/ a 4 in the door and i had (J5)K. in hindsight i should prob just let her steal because she was playing pretty awful and wouldn't have folded any pair or any draw for the world. anyways i ended up getting trapped in with a flush draw and rivered J's but lost to what i think was her rivered trip 10's.

i anted off a bit after that and ended up trying to rep a big hand against a donk that i was pretty sure had a naked pair of 5's. by the time i made my play at the pot i was committed and donkey boy never considered that his 5's were no good and it was gg me.

so i finished 714/1063. very dissapointing. im actually a little steamed now and when this happens i usually toss and turn in bed thinking about hands for the rest of the nite.

not sure if i'll play the sunday event or not. i will play the O8 event and if im not up to anything i might even play the stud hi event now that i have a resemblence of a clue.

tg