Cash / Bankroll / Sunday Million

I have just spent most of last week playing and turning a profit on Cash games - not the norm for me. I have still played the $8.80 18 player SNGs on FT and have still been fairly successful in them with three $26 Tokens in the bank now from just four attempts.

My Bankroll currently reads;

Total Cash Deposits (2008) : $770
Cash In Play : $460 (plus $72 in FT Tourney Tokens)
Total Cash Withdrawls : $0
In Bank awaiting investment / deployment: $2,000


Having almost completed my $3 90 Man Challenge on RTR, I'm waaaay behind and now out of the running completely. wendellsailor is the man at the front and with 2 wins to his name he will be very difficult to beat. I find these pretty painful and I've continued on the off-chance that everyone else would do just as badly. As this is not the case, I just can't get motivated to play the remaining ones. I would like to be able to say that I have made some money from this Challenge though so I will try my best at the final one. At the moment, I'm $36 in, $3 back in Bounties and haven't yet made the money.

I played the two APATs last week (badly and impatiently). I forgot all about the Scottish one on Thursday night and got to the table over 90 mins in surprised to see that I still had almost 75% of my starting stack waiting for me. I never really got going and it didn't take long to donk off what I had. On Saturday night, in the San Marino Open, AQ failed me twice - I called the SB to the end on a AK6 A 5 board losing half of my stack, then I mis-read Telmison4's bet on the 67T flop as weak, I re-raised and he shoved with the suited 89 for the nut straight. OK, saying AQ failed me is a bit harsh - I failed myself.

Last night when on to play in the Sunday Hundred Grand and BritBlogger, Jim and I got chatting. He had entered a Satellite to Sunday Million on FullTilt and was looking like needing the $30 Add-On to survive. As I was $20 in credit with him, he offered me 50% of winnings to clear the slate. At 33% stake for 50% return I agreed and he played great with me on the rail to finish in the top 12 for a $525 seat. Unfortunately we didn't realise that the Sunday Million started less than 5 mins later so before we got a chance to decide what we were going to do with $525 (it was likely that we would both have had a bash at the PS Sunday Million next weekend), he was in the game and left explaining to Dani that he'd likely be pulling an All-Nighter.

To summarise his game, he went to around 4k after a few risky calls, doubled up to 8k with pocket Ts on a QTx board when a 9k stack called him with AQ. He fell back to 5k when facing an All-In re-re-raise then went out in a pretty sick fashion when, with A9 flopped top pair and shoved. He was called by a 9 high flush draw and although he managed to avoid the Diamonds, he lost to the runner runner straight.

Right, back to another busy week of work.