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Well it’s been a long time since my last update and going against the New Year expectations post of two posts a week. However, the week after the last post I messed up my sleeping pattern wildly which meant I didn’t put too many hours into poker for the following week.

From the first weeks total of SNGs I only managed half of the 300 I played in this week for the rest of the month and only increased the profit in these by $50.

However, it was MTTs where I was going to show a majority of the profit for the last week of the month, and on the 26th I decided to have an MTT night where, as you can imagine, I was only going to play MTT tournaments on the Ongame network. The volume wasn’t huge however and I managed five tournaments, but it was because of how deep I was getting that I kept the amount to a minimum, and over these I managed three final tables.

I hit two final tables at pretty much the same time, the $11 Shorthanded Deepstack whih had 257 entrants and the $11 rebuy 4.5k guaranteecd which had 288 runners. I donked out in the second hand of the $11 rebuy after shoving 12 big blinds UTG with AQo, was such an annoying spot as I didn’t want to raise fold and didn’t want to fold so ended up just shipping the whole lot and ran into Kings. I took ~$120 cash and carried on with my other final table where I got down to heads up from the beginning six pretty quickly after there were a few people who didn’t like to fold. However, with the other guy having a 10 to 1 chiplead it was going to be pretty tough getting past him. It only took three hands to end it after a limped pot preflop I checked in the BB to see a flop of 6h-3h-4x and I held 6d3d but I checked to him and he checked behind. I bet out on a Queen turn and he shoved all in which I insta-called. However, his flopped straight with 7h5h was way ahead when I thought it was me who was trapping on the flop. No complaints though and I was very happy with the ~$400 cash.

Alongside them two I had the $20,000 $5 rebuy which had 1927 entrants and the $11 rebuy daily Rehab tournament which had 819 players. I lasted just after the second break iirc in the Rehab and ended up donking out in 294th. I can’t remember the bust out hand though. I continued to battle on in the $20,000 $5 rebuy and managed to pick up chips fairly easily and one important pot I remember was when I held 9-9 in a limped pot with 5 players on a Q-Q-9 flop. I got it in for a huge pot at the time against QJ and managed to hold. At around 2:30am we reached the final 10 from the huge field and I was in the top half of chipcounts. Again, this final table was pretty wild and people weren’t bothered about going out. The table was whittled to the final three and I found myself with the shortest stack sitting with around 600,000 chips and blinds being 40,000/80,000, the other two had 2million and 4 million. This was the longest time I think without anyone going out and I kept shoving in many spots collecting chips here and there to try and make a comeback, I ended up getting it all in when the guy with 4 million made it 300,000 at 50,000/100,000 and I shoved my 1.2 million stack in with A8. He turned over KQ and was sick to see a King on the flop, however it looked like I sucked out on him when the three outer Ace came on the turn which would have put me in a very decent position. But one of the two remaining Kings fell on the river to seal the deal and send me out third. I was still very pleased and took ~$2100 which just about doubled my winnings for the month.

I tried another MTT day on the 27th but failed badly. I played in the $162 GSOP Event #3  which had 1070 players, however, I never really got anything going at all and my 8 big blinds ended up in the middle with 6-6 and ran into A-Q who proceeded to hit the nuts.

Was pretty annoyed as my spreadsheet became corrupt on the 29th and meant I lost quite a few results. However, i’ve just spent a while trying to input the results back in as I had a back up from the 21st and used Sharkscope who look like they’re tracking every tournament now which was very helpful. However i’m not sure how many rebuys etc I had and the prizes are different according to their averages so my numbers are not perfect but they aren’t too far away.

So the total for the month from SNGs & MTTs is around $3,950 but could be upto $50 out either way. However, i’ll be getting about $145 from rakeback and $50 from the rake race from last month too which should take it upto about $4100 which makes it a very successful start to the year.

Had a very good start to the month so far playing 16 SNGs and cashing in 13, showing a $280 profit. I’ve also been moved up slightly and can play $54 SNGs when showing a decent profit, so far played 10 of these and showing a profit of $160 so everything is going very well at the moment, just hoping it can continue.

Looking to play a bit of live this month as I now have a bit of money to do so and haven’t played in a long time. Will report on this later.

Will look to update at the end of every week or so from now on.

Thanks for reading,

Comments and feedback much apprectiated.