Coming Back!!

Ok. . .remember that free money that I got from Pacific Poker? I got $10 free bucks. This normally would not be a big deal but since I have blown the case money (not really. . . .i can still buy food) it was cool to have some real dough. I wanted to see if I could turn that free $$ into something I could actually play with.

First of all, Pacific Poker really does suck. . .software, speed, etc. But the players are just as bad!! Anyways, I plunk down my $10 (the new case money) at a $10 PL table. My plan is to play very tight and try to make this $10 last and maybe parlay it into more. The first couple of sessions are up and down a couple of bucks. One night I go on a bit of a tear and turn the $10 into about $43. Not bad. Gives me a little room to play some now. . . .at least at the $10 PL table.

I already mentioned in the previous post that I decided to play in a $5 MTT. The structure on Pacific is really fast. Start with only 800 chips and blinds go up every 10 mins. I didn't like it at first but everyone plays like a wack-o early on. 3/4 of the field was eliminated at the end of the 1st hour. To make a long story short I hang around most of the tourney about average then catch a couple of hands and move into the top ten or so. I find myself at the final table. With about 5 players left I am the chip leader and really feel like I can win this. Two more drop out and I am really gaining momentum.

The pictured hand below was the one that crippled me. I raised the middle stack with AKo. He moves all in and I call. I make Kings full. . . .he flopped four of a kind!! I was left with some chips. But the blinds were high and I was knocked out 3rd a few hands later.

Well, after that payout of about $290 and some more ring games, I am up to about $450 in the Pacific account. All from that free $10. I am going to withdraw the money soon and head to a different site. The cash games are kind of juicy and it isn't that hard to beat the tourneys. I think I could play only top ten hands and make it to the money.

Also, I have been studying my online dealer course. It is pretty thorough. . . .I think. I have read the entire course and now I will start to practice some of the skills that it has laid out. I really want to try to be ready to apply for a job at the track before the season is over here because everyone leaves for the summer. Although, I do hear that the tournaments at the track are drawing about 200 players now. Not bad for a sick 20% juice!!!! I don't like to play in their tourneys because the juice is outrageous and the blind structure is almost as fast as a Pacific MTT. But when that is all the live tourney action you can get, what do you do??

Well, I am pretty happy with my Pacific Poker account so far. I think I can double this in the next couple of weeks.

Later,
TT