Down and up week

This week didnt go as planned.

I started the week playing some heads up cash which went ok and i was playing at $0.25/0.50 so i wasnt annoyed myself for losing $50 or so there. Then i started playing $0.50/1. I was playing well and had taken my $100 buyin (1/3 of my bankroll) to $160 when i flopped top two against another guy's straight. when he pushed in over my re-rasie on the flop i could have folded and still had $145 but for some reason i called. I even new he had me beat. I had KJ and had called a raise on the button. flop came KJ10 and i knew when the flop came down that i was gonna lose my whole stack. I then starting running badly and after one very tired session of $0.50.1 HU cash (What was i thinking!?) i found my bankroll at $90 ! luckily Corinne my girlfriend came up for a couple of days so i didnt play until tonight ...

Our internet was broken but i was determined to play some poker and spent about an hour and a half trying to fix it. When i did i entered the first tourny i could find (so much for only playing cash!) a $20 6pak multi at 11.45 PM, 155 entrants. I felt really focused and despite a big dent being put in my stack when i flopped a straight flush draw and missed all my outs, i battled back and found my self in 30th with 40 to go....

I doubled up when a guy called my allin reraise on the flop with Ahigh and then had my QQ hold up against JJ and a fish with AJ. It was suited !! I then played my stack well and was in 4th of the final 9. I then spent about 40 minutes playing 3 handed when down to 7 players with no cards and stole well to keep my stack alive before making the final table of 6. Blinds were insanely high with barely any flops seen. My AK held up against KQ to put me in the chip lead with 4 left. I then pushed the stacks around leaving all 3 other players with less than 10x BB. They took eachother out and i had a 2-1 chip lead heads up where i played aggressively with some nice cards and took the first place of $906.

What a long and boring way to say i won a multi ! I now have a bankroll of $940 so i'm finally in profit for the term !! As much as i'd love to cash it out i want to try to build it up playing cash. I'm going to stick with $0.25/0.50 with the occasional $0.50/1 when i'm focused. That gives me 18 buyins which should be plenty to deal with the variance, SHOULD BE !! My intention is to only play tournanents of $20 and below unless i have satellited in.

It's 3 o clock now so i'm hitting the sack with a bigger banroll than looked likely