Another Big Score on Pokerstars

Have I told you lately how pokerstars is my new favorite online poker site in 2011?



Blooom!

I am hoping to get up a writeup later on this one, as even though I did not win I have posted a tournament recap on the blog for every five-digit score I have ever won, and frankly, I do love doing the recaps. As much work as it is, the tournament recaps I do here on the blog are just a somewhat more involved and more detailed version of what I review in every mtt I play after I play it. What did I do well, where did I go wrong to get eliminated, and most importantly, what can I do to avoid making that same mistake again? And in a strange way, I enjoy doing them, even though it is a very time-intensive endeavor to do a tournament recap on a blog just right the way I like to do it. Anyways, I am hopeful I will get to recap this one tonight.

When it all came down to the end and I had a chance to win it, the chip leader eliminated the short stack guy to enter heads-up play at a more than 3-to-1 chip advantage over me. It didn't help that the hand I chose to take a stand and shove preflop with two big cards -- just the sixth hand of heads-up play, mind you, with me down about 4-to-1 in chips at the time -- I pushed right into my heads-up opponent's pocket Aces to lose it. Oh well. It never feels good to lose, but a five digit win on pokerstars is never anything to scoff at, and as I always like to evaluate a nice score after a deep mtt run, a hundred buyins is a hundred buyins no matter how you slice it. A hundred buyins is why I spend so many hours a year sitting in front of a laptop screen playing these infernal nlh tournaments.

OK so more on this later. Winning 10k and then just a couple of hours later heading to work, having gotten less sleep than any night you can remember and yet having a noticeable bounce in your step still in the morning is kinda like the Matrix -- you can never quite understand the feeling until you experience it for yourself.