sAt 'n' go

An unusually quick update on my blog!

Reason:-

I decided to play an $11 satellite to the Sunday Warm Up today after a couple of hours of uninspiring heads up sit n goes. After rocking it up early on and then doubling through with QQ against AJ I managed to chip up, delve a lead and on the final table dominate proceedings despite starting with just 9 BB (after taking a hit bluffing a rock!) to win a seat in the Sunday Warm Up. 6 handed I felt like I always had a shot despite the blinds getting big and I barely showed my cards to move from level 4th with 6 left to chip lead with 3 left (2 players getting seats!). Here the play was all pretty standard with me aggressing them both and finally after getting down to 3 BB the shortie pushed the button, I called with 7 2 in the SB and the BB also called. My 7 2 held to win a place and relieve the pain from coming 2nd in the 375FPP sat to the Sunday Million despite having a 4 to 1 chip lead heads up a couple of months before (with 2nd place winning sweet FA!!).

If I win these types of sats in August I hope to take the seat to take a few shots but building a roll is my priority atm, so I took the tournament dollars. A nice $215 to add to my roll, which has now reached $1716 :-)

I really think I should play a few of these Sats every week. Looking at thepokerdb.com I have played 10 sats on Stars and have won 4 for a total of $990 from roughly an initial $100 overall. I also bubbled that 375FPP one and bubbled another for $190 a few months back. I think the standard is quite poor and the games play very similar to a 9 man turbo for the most part. So therefore, I am going to have to get over the fact that my ITM will reduce and start looking for the most profitable areas of poker. In the same way, I may start attacking the 45 man SNG's because I haven't given these a proper go and I hope they could be very fishy!!

I have a couple of days of June left but to be honest it has gone so much better than I could have imagined. Hopefully I can have a good day of tournies 2moro but if not over $1500 profit on Stars in less than a month is overwhelming and I just hope I can run as good next month!! Especially as I should be moving up soon, so wish me luck!

A monthly update will recap and hopefully concisely summarise my last few posts on Tuesday, so look forward to that :-)

Much love,

147_.... of David