Monday, May 14, 2007

Sunday Blues

I’m starting to build up the same love/hate relationship with the Sunday tournies that many other tournament players share. The first tournie I busted in last night was the Stars Million. It’s almost standard for me to bubble this tournie, and last night didn’t disappoint. Nearly 6k runners, 810 places pay and I end up busting in 816th.

I also played in FTOPS event #3 at Full Tilt. The $322 buy-in event drew nearly 3,000 entries and generated a prizepool close to that of the old Sunday Millions. I got pretty close to the money in this too, finishing just inside the top 500 when 410 paid. The structure at FT is great though, enabling me to take a couple of nasty beats (JJ < TT and AK < AJ) early on and still build a decent stack with relatively low blinds after the second break.

In slightly more positive news I have now finalised my plans for Vegas this year. I’m flying out from London on the 26th June, which should allow me to take in a couple of preliminary events and spend a bit more time playing in other tournaments and even attend a 4th July BBQ!

I still have a return flight booked for the 12th July, but I may change that now depending on whether or not I play the ME. Stars has now deposited the $10k ME buy-in to all qualifiers accounts, which means we can potentially decide to keep the money. It’s a tough decision to make, and I was much happier when I didn’t have a choice to make. I was really looking forward to playing but I’ll just have to see how I feel when I’m in Vegas.