My First MTT Win!

My first MTT win!

After finishing 2nd on Sunday, it feels great to finally finish in 1st!

Daily Dollar Cash

I finished 230 out of 4,750 in the Daily Dollar re-buy with 1 re-buy.

My run at the final table was thwarted by all in's with 10-10 vs. J-J with a 10 on the flop and a J on the turn and 7-7 with a flop of 4-5-6 only to rivered by an ace on the river by A-Q...gg

Focus on the Final Table

After struggling to change my focus from cash games to SnG's and MTT's, I found the blue lights four times today! and finished...

1st in an 18 man SnG
2nd out of 218 in a $2.20 limit hold'em MTT
4th in a 27 man SnG
5th in a 27 man SnG

A-A vs. A-A

Here's an interesting hand I witnessed on Full Tilt playing $1/$2 Limit Holdem...glad I wasn't involved in this one!

Trash Talkin' A-A Blues

This past weekend I was playing in two low stake MTT tournaments with a short stack when another player started berating me for folding so many hands in a row with the short stack.

I waited patiently until I got A-A and started typing "why don't you call my all-in?"

The trash talker folded both times to my all-in however both times my A-A was cracked by K-K and 10-10 sets...but thankfully my chat was blocked by my all-in...

I never berate other players while I'm playing and was hoping to exact some revenge by letting my cards do the talkin'...

It makes me laugh when guys start talkin' trash in a $1.10 MTT that I won entry in with points...

I usaully try and tell a few jokes and have some laughs while grinding online...

I'm kind of like Chris Leben, the UFC fighter who seems to wake up and start fighting after taking a left hook on the chin...

I used both loses to motivate me in my next MTT and finished in the money in the 5K GTD and turned 100 points into 11 tournament dollars with entry into The Dime 10K GTD on UB.

When A-A gets cracked 2x in one day, it may have put me on tilt in the past...but this is where BR management and a cooler mind pre-vail...something I hope to improve upon as I finish up my first year of online play in October.

How do you handle trash talk? (other than turning off the chat?)

Does it effect your play?

A Piece of Cake

I finished 10th out of 377 in the 10k GTD on Cake last nite for $187.00

I also finished 29th out of 550 in the 7k GTD the previous nite for $44.89

It feels good to be in the heat of battle late in a MTT tournament.

Hopefully these experiences help me get my first MTT win!

25 PTS. = $1.10 MTT = $165.95

I won a seat to the 5k Guarnteed $1.10 MTT on U.B. using 25 player points and finished the tournament in 7th place for $165.95! My best MTT score to date.