Week 21

The last week to add to my qualifications ended on the bubble.  I finished 12/49.  I'm still debating if I made a mistake pushing there, when I was 9th in chips but with only a few BB stack.  It really depends on what was important to me, and that's where I'm conflicted.

Since the tourney has a regular payout schedule, then I need to shove there to increase my $ equity.  However, I am also playing to increase my qualifications to the semi-finals, which means that unless I'm 11th or 12th in that spot, I should still be playing tighter.  There's a good explanation of this from Mike "Timex" McDonald here about playing a large bubble payout, which in effect, is what a qualifier tourney is doing.

So, I went for the money rationalizing that I already had 2 days of seats and that the extra 1k might not make that much of a difference on my second day.

So now the qualifications are done.  I qualified 7 times out of 21.  Which is better than average as there was about 35 people per tournament.  It was also profitable to the tune of $180 which was a nice added bonus!

I played some cash games afterwards and I ran terribly in LO8 (-420) and ran like a god (+220) in the few minutes of NLHE I was playing before I got moved to the LO8 tables.

Running totals with this week:
-445: 1/2 NLHE
+25 3/6 LHE
-443 3/6 LO8
+180 tourney
+200 promos
-18 food
= -$501

Next week, I start my first semi-final.  It'll be my short-stack day (5k starting stack).

Wish me luck...