Day 136 ... Poker Forum Challenge

After struggling with the mildest curry in the universe I sat up waiting to play in the Poker Forum Challenge hosted at Royal Vegas - bit of a late game for me as it didn't kick of till 1am UK time.

Even though I havn't played much at Royal Vegas I got on ok with the software and have grown to quite like it, aside from that a rather big plus is the very fishy competition at the site - quite tight and very passive players which is great and a fair amount of loose weak / semi aggressive players. Added to that they give you $10 to play with, straight into your account even if you don't deposit cash.

anyway back to the freeroll tournie last night - 2125 entered and I lasted just under 2 hours to get 142nd place which I was quite please with. OK so no money or anything but after the last couple of months of me playing just about every hand I see and failing miserably to steal and out play anyone with any cards I was just glad to have got back to a more disciplined game.

I'd managed to stay pretty much at twice the average stack for most of the 2 hours, my downfall came after a couple of good folds on fairly good starting hands that had already cost me too much money - at least I didn't go out on those - but I ended up with 1300 chips with the blinds at 500/1000 and two hands away from the BB so I went all-in with A9 suited (best I'd seen in 12-18 hands) hoping my non to impressive 1300 and a tight table image would be enough to pick up the blinds and one caller - no such luck as the big stack I read as just limping in had AA so called and that was that.

Day 136 ... 142nd out of 2125 at Poker Forum Challenge hosted at Royal Vegas Poker.


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