Blue square poker – MTT GAME
Category: Poker
bluesquarepoker.co.uk - Yesterday was an extremely happy day for me, the reason being that after 12 weeks or so of going along to my local three table MTT game, I am pleased to say that I have finally won it. For a while now I have been beginning to wonder if there was something wrong with my short handed play because I’d had 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th places, but hadn’t broken into the top two yet. All that changed last night after a successful past week for me in general actually.
Despite not being particularly high on the leaderboard for our local league, I started out playing well in the final big game. During the middle phase after I had moved tables, things began to change, but I soon decided if I was going to make the money I had to just get stuck in with some hands and gamble a little. Luckily this paid off and I eventually finished 4th place for £130.
The money wasn’t the main point though, most importantly, I’d really played a great game at the final table and felt very much on form coming into last nights game. Despite finding myself short stacked with seven players to go, I refused to allow myself to get so low that I wouldn’t have a chance of winning, and after picking up some blinds with (3,3) on two occasions, I soon doubled up with (K,K). I kept the momentum going to get to the final three, and was lucky enough to find another (K,K) when the small stack shoved preflop wth (A,Q).
It was all over the very next hand when I called an all in raise preflop with (Qd,Jd) against (Qs,10s). Needless to say I have got my confidence back now, and will go along to Saturday nights game with high hopes.