HugePoker

Yes, Aces cracked again … This time in the first ten minutes of yesterday’s $350 Deep Stack event … by the mighty Eight-Five-Suited. It didn’t knock me out of the tournament, but it cost me half my stack right at the start, and I never really recovered.

Last night in the little $120 “Second Chance” tournament, I finally played a tournament in which I DIDN’T get Aces cracked (yay!), but after the blinds were pretty high and my stack was getting a bit short I got all-in preflop with AQ vs. Q9, and found not one but two nines on the flop to cripple me.

In today’s $200-rebuy satellite for the NAPT main event (270 players, the final 26 would win $5000 in tournament chips for a main event buyin), I was blessed with a surplus of premium starting hands, but with AA (twice) and KK and QQ I got no action to my raises (during the rebuy period no less - blecch) and with AK (thrice) I got more action than I wanted, missed the flop each time and had to fold. And then after the rebuy period was over AK was my betrayer again, with the blinds high and my stack short I was facing a shove from another short stack, looked down at AK and happily called - things looked OK when the other guy turned over QTs, but not so great when a Ten hit the flop and the turn and river bricked away.

So I’m running like crap, and the main event starts at Noon tomorrow. Hopefully the badness is out of the way - maybe I’ll even put a bad beat on someone else for a change. I’ll let you know.

I’ll try to post updates on my twitter page so you can follow along. I’m guessing there will be updates on the famous pros on the Pokerstars blog page, and maybe elsewhere, but I’ll worry about posting those links if I make it to day 2.

-huge

P.S. For those of you with money invested in my poker tournament forays, I’m sorry I haven’t sent you detailed account statements recently. I don’t have my investors’ email list with me here, so I’m hoping most of you will be reading this. As you know, the last few big buyin tournaments have not gone well for me, so whatever your balance was before, it’s … umm … a lot less now. My plan is to take half of the remaining pool and invest it in tomorrow’s main event, saving the remaining half for the next one (possibly the European Poker Tour event in San Remo Italy in April). Your money has not been in play for the preliminary events, which is a good thing for you, but half of it will be riding on me tomorrow, do or die.