Why I prefer cash...

So last night I was invited to play in the 'superstars of PKR' tournament (a tourney exclusively for players who have won a PKR 'major' in the past), and figured that I'd take some time away from the cash tables and join in, especially as they were offering a WSOP final stage ticket for those who made the final table. Experience has taught me that playing cash and MTT's at the same time doesnt really work (for me anyway), so I also entered the Open and the Prime Time and happily 3 tabled with 'Good Morning Vietnam' on the telly - a nice stress free evening in the making...


I haven't played an MTT for almost 2 months and was quite looking forward to getting my tourney head on, as it really is so very different to playing 6 max cash. I busted out of the open after about 2 hours after shoving my KQs from the cut off with 14 BBs and getting snapped off by the SB big stack, who showed 88. No help for me and i was gone, meh, pretty standard. I was going deep in the other two however, and was hovering around the chip leaders in both whilst the bubble (top 30 for both - out of about 150/200 runners) was approaching, and feeling pretty confident about getting at least to the FT in both as I was isolating the small stacks and winning flips against them, and 3-betting the medium sized stacks in position and getting folds at the right times.


Then in the PT, a very well respected MTT player (Rocken1900) decided to shove in early position for about 30BB's (eh??) and it folded around to me in the cut off. I look down at AKo :-). As the format was a 'turbo' and the bubble had just burst, I obviously snapped and had him covered (I had around 40BB's). The remaining  middle/short stacks folded, and he flipped A6o. Of course he rivered a 6 and I shoved the very next hand with Q10s, only to be snapped by KK - hat, coat, and I'm out for whopping $91.80 for 28th place ($55 buy-in). 


Ok, fine, time to focus on the 'superstars'. This one was 6 handed and I'm dealt 99 from UTG+1 with 15BB's - I obviously jam and get called by the SB who flips 77 - yay! He flops a set, I bust in 17th place for another colossal cash of $56.87 ($28 buy-in) and the cat gets a toe-punt up the arse. Sorry Lola! 


So I'm back on the cash tables this morning where for the last 2 days I'm currently winning at a rate of $1 per hand - ha!

If anybody would like to tell me the best way to convert hand histories so that they dont make your eyes bleed when reading them (as mine do on my previous blog post), then please do! Email: jamjoy10@hotmail.com Thanx in advance!