Almost a 21-grand-aire.

I played one tourney today. It turned out to be my best cash ever.

I did the 21k poon Sunday 200k guaranteed. I started out playing like garbage, bluffing off half my stack, not getting value out of big hands. I said with about 13k people left that I just want to be out and that I'm in no mood to play anymore.

I managed to stay afloat after bouncing around for the first two hours, and then I somehow took off. I won so many big hands I can't even remember them. I was stalling right at the break with barely enough chips to play with. I had to shove 6700 with A4 offsuit utg with the blinds at 1500/3000. I rivered trips and tripled up. After that, I doubled up a bunch of times. Soon enough, I had the chips to make a run. Like I said, I don't remember the big hands. I just know I had AA a lot. One that sticks in my mind, I had 7s in early position and limped. a short stack of 9600 shoved with 2500/5000 blinds. the sb called it. I had about 48000 chips and I reraised him all in, putting him on garbage. He folded and I isolated against AK. I flopped trips (if only I called the all in instead of isolating) and held up. that set me up.

Long story short, I kept dominating with impressive all in after impressive all in. I didn't bluff at many pots. I only stole the blinds a few times. Most of my chips came from big all in hands. I wound up placing 76th for a 326 dollar cash. My previous high cash was only 96 bucks. That run brought the bankroll near 500, another all time high. THAT CLOSE to 21 grand. Maybe next week...

I have too much blogging to do so I'll just briefly go over todays POTD. He came to my 200k table with 57k in chips, which at the time was top 100 out of 8000. He was ousted in 10 minutes. The first hand, he shoved all in with a2 suited and lost to AK. He reraised all in after a min raise with A2 offsuit, raised 3x the bb preflop in early position with 9 10 offsuit, and wound up shoving his last 24K with A7 off. He lost again to AK, and today's poon of the day didn't even come close to cashing. If I had 57k in that tournament early on, I'd sit on it. I wouldn't donk it away. His name was fraundcamera. What a poon.

IDs of the week coming next, and believe me there are some beauties.