Bubble Trouble

I thought last night would be the first breakthrough on my quest to create a bankroll from nothing. I was playing in three freeroll tournaments simultaneously, one on Full Tilt Poker and two on Bodog.

I was going well in all three tournaments, well above the average chip counts and in the zone. This Full Tilt tournament has the toughest payout ratio I have seen yet, 27 paying positions for 2700 entrants. All was well until the number of remaining entrants hit 50 and as is common when you are so close to the bubble everyone tightened up, I was fine with this, I had a comfortable stack and was willing to be patient, however with the ever increasing blinds and antes it wasn’t too long until my stack was looking slightly precarious and with 10 more players needing to be eliminated before a payout was guaranteed I decided I place needed to try to steal some blinds just to hang on. The first couple of times it went fine, my opponents dutifully folded their cards against my big raise and then as hand for hand play came into effect on the bubble I was dealt AsJs on the button. The table folded around to me and I raised to twice the big blind ($12,000) and was expecting to pick up the blinds and antes again when the big blind re-raised me all-in. The player on the big blind was one of the chip leaders and covered me easily, he had been playing quite loose, stealing blinds and the like, and I thought that maybe he had noticed me steal a couple of times in the last 5 minutes and was trying to play the Sheriff, so I called and he flipped over A-K. It held up and I was out in 28^th. Looking back, calling probably wasn’t the right move, especially at that stage of the tournament when my main aim was just to pick up $2 so I could get away from the freeroll crap-shoots for a while.

I tried to turn my concentration to the two Bodog tournaments which were both now coming up to the paying positions, but I was tired (it was 5:30am) and my elimination from the Full Tilt tournament had me distracted and I found myself eliminated from both tournaments within half an hour.

Full Tilt Poker indeed.

 

BANKROLL – $0.00