played a bundle tuesday nite with zero success.

bust outs were your normal mixture of pushing a short stack w/ rags, bad beats and what not.

i busted the 7pm party $109 on like the 4th hand w/ AK on K426 rainbow board. i raised a limper pre and he called and then got c/r on the flop and called and called it off on the turn after he thought for a good 10 secs. he had poor results according to opr and although i had no real read of him as a player it felt like he would play any top pair that way and just had a gut feeling that my hand was good. he had 44 and i was dreading dead. woops!

i can't remember how i busted in the ftp 7pm, i played the 7:15pm limit and got rivered by a ragged 2 pair and had to fold KK in a 5 way pot on the turn.

i lost 99% of my stack on the 5th hand of the 8pm $26 when i got it all-in on a T hi spade draw board w/ QQ against KTo and got turned.

in the 8pm $163 i got it all-in near the end of the first hour against a total donk that was just dying to give his chips away. i raised a limper up w/ KTs and he cold called from the sb and we got it all-in on a KTX board and his QJo got there on the turn.

i busted every tourny before the 9pm ftops event even started. i was a little aggravated and almost un-registered for the event but didn't. if it was a nl holdem event i would have but since big O8 tournies only come around once in a blue moon i decided to rough it out.

i lasted about 3.5 hrs before busting 413 out of the 1067 player field. i played ok but definitly did not stay patient enough. i lost the majority of my chips w/ an overpair Q's and the second nut low in a 3 way pot where one guy had the nut low and the other had a naked pair of K's. the play was pretty bad as you could tell a lot of players were holdem players and couldn't fold an overpair no matter what the board action dictated. anyways, i definitly did not deserve to win and sucked out a couple times to get as far as i did.

all in all one of the rougher nights that most mtt players are accustomed to but something that i prepare myself for.

i snuck in a short cash session tonite and it was pretty successful. i started off w/ 2 $55 turbo sngs and went out 6th in one and won the 2nd won.

i ran a couple of 3/6 O8 6-max tables and lost about 15bb's over the course of playing them. i opened a couple of 1/2 nl full ring games and made close to a buy-in on those.

then i hopped into a .50/1.00 head-up game. some guy came and dusted off 2 buy-ins to me in that while playing like a complete idiot. i set him up beautifully and played like a weak nit for the first few minutes. then i just ran him over and eventually had him 4-betting all-in pre w/ T8o. it was good times and i think i'll dabble in low limit heads-up a little more often.

i sat down at a 3/6 stud game too but couldn't keep up with the action with all the other tables around so quit that before i got skinned.

the total for the nite was about $420 profit which is pretty good for donking around for an hour. it's good to make a mental note of these nights because they'll be times when i drop that much in an hour and will blame poor luck.

i had to withdrawal another1k from my roll today to help cover puppy expenses so with cash win and withrdrawal my roll is now just over 15k.

basically i've broken dead nuts even after my win and have taken the 4k out for personal stuff.

gone for the weekend so im done with ftops (thankfully) and prob won't be playing again till early next week.

tg

edit: just sat down at another hu .50/1.00 table while watching some pxf vids, got ran over to start and was down 1.5 buy-ins before coming back and taking the guys initial buy-in off him. hu is addictive, i couldn't stop him until i got back even.