Had a little free time today, so I decided to try my hand at some of the frequent player point (FPP) tournaments on Full Tilt. Specifically, I went back to my old bug account on FT and played in three 1800-pt 9-handed SnGs. These tourneys pay the top three finishers each with $26 tokens that can be used in other tournaments and satellites.
The first tourney didn't start well-- actually, that's an understatement. I busted out within the first five hands when I got married to TPTK. Dumb.
The next two tourneys, on the other hand, went about as well as you can hope for, with the end result being two $26 tokens added to the one I had previously won a few weeks ago. At one point in the second game today, I took a bad beat when my AQ was bested by A4 (flop was A-Q-4; all the money of course went in, and the opp of course rivered a second four). Suddenly I was down to T400 in chips with seven players left.
Rather than give up, however, I got aggressive with the short-stacking spreadsheet and built the stack back to T2500 or so and then just waited for the table to thin out a bit. When we got down to the bubble, I turned up the heat and went from T2100 up to T4500 in about seven hands. Then it was back to coast mode for a bit and... voila'.... I slid into the money sans trouble.
The third game wasn't quite so nerve racking and I ended up moneying fairly easily by just playing a very cautious and tight game. I've still got enough FPPs under the old account to play five or six more of these 1800-point games, so if I have more time this weekend, that's probably going to be the focus.
In other news, my NL cash-only experiment is only doing so-so. I've been up a few bucks and down a few bucks, but mostly down. I watched some FT instructional videos the other day on NL cash games, and one of the instructors said an interesting thing about NL games: most of their profit comes from hitting sets cheaply and then making the opp pay. TPTK, rockets, etc. aren't where the big bucks come from. Sigh... I wish I'd known that before I donked off an entire $5 buy-in tonight with Anna on a King-high board. Oh well, I hit a set of threes a few hands later and made $5 off a guy who hit two pair on the flop. Up, down, up, down. Such is the life of a poker player.
All-in for now...
-Bug
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