Finally

Ok, what is the most likely thing to happen when you are in the midst of your largest downswing in the last few years. A MTT win, of course. How bout Daily Double A on FT last night. To the tune of $2185.

What started out as a tourney to just blow off some steam and maybe get to bed early turned into a late night success. Dropped about 500 chips early pushing edges that just weren't there, and then doubled up with AQ on a Q high flop to some donkey with 55. So, it was off to the races. Actually, no it wasn't...it was about 4 hours of hovering at or below average constantly with my stack at risk. It was only when it got to about 100 ppl left that I had a decent size stack. I was in 3rd with 90 to go and no worse than 9th all the way until 2 tables left. Then, the fun started. I sucked out in grand style twice on my way to victory. QQ and TT were no match for my donktastic AJo that perfectly flopped an Ace. That gave me a super size stack that I proceeded to donk down to small levels with 5 left. Then, my super poker skills made A2s a much better hand than AK. And it was down to 4. From there, I stole, I believe, 4-5 pots in a row each time adding 40-50k to my stack. I busted #4 and #3 which put my HU with almost identical stacks. 1.2MM for me and 1.1 for my opponent. I proceeded to play my usual game of bad HU poker and he ground me down to about 650k without working up a sweat. Then, my A8 beat his K7 all in pre flop and I suddenly had a lead and a new found focus. I got my stack up to about 1.6 versus his 700k when my new favorite hand, Q9 beat his Q8 on a Q high flop.

So, pay the man his money!!!

I am still horribly in the hole for April and May, but this is a nice cushion.

If only Bodog would get me my checks, life would be good.