So much for waiting until Friday

So I played tonight after baseball. We lost the game 6-4, and I went 0/2, with a walk. IOW, a pretty shitty game. After doing some chores, I played some poker.

Started out on the $55+2.5 tables, and lost 2 games to tatta. A very decent player, with whom I'm break even with in general, but am now down 2 games too, after an 0/2 session against him. Since there were no others waiting for HU matches, I saw a $55+5 FT almost full, so I signed up and decided to sign up for the next $35+3 tourney as well, hoping it would start 10 minutes after the first. Turns out, it started something like 2 minutes after the first.

Most of the time, I'd prefer not to have 2 FT tables running simultaneously around the same blind levels. The rationale being that when it gets shorthanded (SH), I like/need to focus on whether the players can be run over or not. That's the critical time, as you can accumulate a ton of chips by raising incessantly to someone who won't call without a solid quality hand. If you can have 2 of those opponents to your left, you are in SNG heaven.

As it was, I played pretty good, except for a backfired bluff early in the $55+5 game. I recovered quickly with a double up to return to my starting stack. It was odd today in that both games had 7+ people in the late blind rounds. This made for a lot of short stack (SS) pushing as many chips into the middle pre-flop. I had managed to get some chips on both tables early in the rounds so I didn't have to get involved unless necessary.

I caught some cards at the end, which is a must HU with the blinds excessively high, and won both tourney's. That's the first double 1st I've made thus far. Came close a week ago when I went 1st and 3rd.

We'll see about tomorrow, since it's pretty late and I'm bound to be exhausted. However, the pull of the game is always strong, so hopefully I have enough control to say no if I'm too tired.

$55+2.5 HU: 0/2 ($115.00)
$35+3 FT: 1/0/0/0
$55+5 FT: 1/0/0/0