Bubble Week
This is the week I could not cash playing poker online. I’ve mostly been playing on full tilt, playing online poker. Of all of the sites to play on, full tilt is not known for its impressive tournament structures. Their blinds are shorter than other sites. You seem to see a lot more cash pros on full tilt and tourney pros on other sites like PokerStars.
That being said, I am a tournament player. I have been playing poker online tournaments all week and am bubbling everything I touch. In sit and go’s I lose every 70/30 and 60/40 when I’m ahead or behind. I even have lost a few 80/20’s and 85/15’s (KK vs. KJ). Hell, I lost AA vs. AQ and A3 on a 3-way all in; the guy hit trip 3’s. So, I’ve been running terrible. But, there isn’t room to run bad in sit and go’s, and there really isn’t much room to run bad in tournaments, especially when the blinds are short.
I got to the final table of a 45-person sit and go. These have 6 minute blinds. I got there as one of a few short stacks and crept to the bubble (7 people left). The blinds were 300/600 and I had 3000; 5 big blinds. This is awful. I’m in the small blind and I get As 10s. The BB has 16k chips. I’m happy that he will probably call my shove with any two cards in hopes of taking out the bubble. I shove, and he calls. He has 9 2 off suit. He flops both a 9 and a 2 and I’m out on the bubble. 70% of the time I am doubling up just in time to be on the button where I have a few more options of playing in choice spots to get past the bubble and maybe even double again if I’m so lucky. Did not happen.
I get into the cash in a SNG where three pay and I am the chip leader. Though I probably don’t need to I am still playing aggressively with show down value hands preflop; any ace/any pair. I shove into KK and get a chunk take from me. Next hand I get shove on and call with A, 6 and I am up against A, 3, he hits his 3 and I’m out 3rd.
