This weekend, being the first weekend that I have been around in a while, I decided that I should do some laundry, mow the lawn (which took 3 hours), and play some poker. Coming off the fantastic time that I had in San Jose, I decided to continue on my quest to become a better tournament player, which meant playing a bunch of huge tournaments. I’m not sure if I’m getting better, or if I just did well this weekend because all the poker bloggers are in Vegas. Either way, it was quite a boost to my ego, though it didn’t really affect my bankroll at all. I’m still working on getting to a final table, but that will have to continue to be a dream. I don’t really know of a good way to get all the info on the tournament (# of participants, buy-ins, etc) so other than the hand history logs, I just have to remember all the rest of the details. I think these were all $20 buy-in tourneys though. And I’m pretty sure they all started with over 800 players.

NL Hold’em Trny:12813771 Level:12 Blinds (500/1000) - Saturday, June 04, 22:51:52 EDT 2005
Table Multi-Table(355587) Table #6 (Real Money)
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8s, 4s, 3d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jd ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ts ]
mikdaroofer shows [ Qc, Qs ] a pair of queens.
gus shows [ Kh, Qh ] high card king.
Player gus finished in 73 place and received $49.68

NL Hold’em Trny:12841030 Level:12 Blinds (500/1000) - Sunday, June 05, 21:13:09 EDT 2005
Table Multi-Table(356723) Table #5 (Real Money)
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, Th, Jh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ As ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
holmesconst shows [ Ad, 5h ] two pairs, aces and jacks.
gus shows [ 8c, 8h ] two pairs, jacks and eights.
Player gus finished in 71 place and received $57

NL Hold’em Trny:12847406 Level:15 Blinds (1500/3000) - Monday, June 06, 01:42:02 EDT 2005
Table $30,000 Guaranteed(356742) Table #3 (Real Money)
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4c, 7h, Jc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2h ]
tifftong shows [ 9d, 7s ] two pairs, nines and sevens.
gus doesn’t show [ Qd, Qh ] a pair of queens.
shiggyshag doesn’t show [ Ks, Jh ] a pair of jacks.
Player gus finished in 43 place and received $114.7

All in all, I was really happy with how I played. I can’t think of a hand where I was behind when I put all my chips in (with the exception of the bust out hand on the first one). For my bust out hands, in each situation, I had less than 2x the big blind so I’m not terribly shocked by the A5o or 97o all-in calls. A good weekend of tournaments at last! And as an added bonus, I’m almost finished clearing the June PP bonus as well!