Friday, June 01, 2007
Sunday I Have One Shot
Well I haven't been blogged in a while and for good reason, I haven't been playing poker. In fact for two weeks I haven't played a hand of poker until tonight. I took 2nd in an online sit-n-go, so I still have it.
About 2 weeks ago I was off from work, doing the Daddy Daycare thing. I wasn't going to waste any money playing poker online while watching the kids so I played some freerolls, just for fun goofing off. I think freerolls are a waste of time if you have money to play with online, but they are good for players who are learning or have no money to play with. It's funny most of my Thursday night guys are playing these freerolls all the time now, I guess they have went broke. Anyways, so I'm playing freerolls and losing quickly of course, but I play this Absolute Dreams tourney. In the first 10 minutes I get dealt pocket kings and pocket aces and no have about 10,000 in chips and the chip leader. You know these freerolls people going all-in preflop with junk. Problem is they ran into me with those big cards which held up. From there I just played solid poker. When we got down to the final 3 tables with only 2 spots advancing to the Absolute Dreams Tourney on the 3rd of June. I would have really thought things would tighten up with 3 tables but no, before I knew it I was at the final table. I was maybe 7th in chips at this point. Once again thinking things would tighten up but the chip leader was knocking one guy out after another and I managed to win some hands to move up to 3rd in chips myself. But it didn't matter because the chip leader was working the table and before I knew it I took 2nd place.
So Sunday is my chance to go Pro!! Right now 470 players are entered in the $200 buy-in tourney. I got in for free. If I win this Absolute sponsors me at the WSOP Main Event, the Aruba Event, I think some WPT events, as well as the sites $150k Saturday tournament each week. This is my chance, my one shot, at least for now to become a professional player.
I've been so busy with family stuff and work I've had no time to really practice, but I've been reading and watching poker and I feel fresh and ready for this one.
I'll make a post of how I did once the tourney is over with.
About 2 weeks ago I was off from work, doing the Daddy Daycare thing. I wasn't going to waste any money playing poker online while watching the kids so I played some freerolls, just for fun goofing off. I think freerolls are a waste of time if you have money to play with online, but they are good for players who are learning or have no money to play with. It's funny most of my Thursday night guys are playing these freerolls all the time now, I guess they have went broke. Anyways, so I'm playing freerolls and losing quickly of course, but I play this Absolute Dreams tourney. In the first 10 minutes I get dealt pocket kings and pocket aces and no have about 10,000 in chips and the chip leader. You know these freerolls people going all-in preflop with junk. Problem is they ran into me with those big cards which held up. From there I just played solid poker. When we got down to the final 3 tables with only 2 spots advancing to the Absolute Dreams Tourney on the 3rd of June. I would have really thought things would tighten up with 3 tables but no, before I knew it I was at the final table. I was maybe 7th in chips at this point. Once again thinking things would tighten up but the chip leader was knocking one guy out after another and I managed to win some hands to move up to 3rd in chips myself. But it didn't matter because the chip leader was working the table and before I knew it I took 2nd place.
So Sunday is my chance to go Pro!! Right now 470 players are entered in the $200 buy-in tourney. I got in for free. If I win this Absolute sponsors me at the WSOP Main Event, the Aruba Event, I think some WPT events, as well as the sites $150k Saturday tournament each week. This is my chance, my one shot, at least for now to become a professional player.
I've been so busy with family stuff and work I've had no time to really practice, but I've been reading and watching poker and I feel fresh and ready for this one.
I'll make a post of how I did once the tourney is over with.
// posted by Harthon @ 7:12 PM 
