About time this was updated, was tempted to do it on Tuesday but didn't want to update it because of a good win so I'll do it now.
It hasn't been updated for over a week because I hadn't played alot of poker really, few dull STTs and a 16th in the Blue Square Bubble tourney was about it up until Tuesday when I decided to enter the Champions League Freeroll. There was 508 runners and the first prize was $0 (You play for points in a league).
Started out really slowly, everyone seemed to be doubling up and I couldn't find a hand, fortunately I was multi tabling otherwise I'm certain I would have got bored and thrown my chips away. With less chips than I started with I was moved to a table with 6 people sitting out and over the course of the next hour and a half the 4 active players (with no collusion) managed to get ourselves extra chips and the table broke up with myself on 6000 chips.
Now 6000 was well below average and I was moved to a table where the largest stack had 60,000. So with AJ and the big stack on the big blind I pushed and hoped he'd make a call and be behind, he did turned over something like Q6 suited and I doubled up.
I now had 13,000 and a really good structure (blinds 300/600) meant I could cruise along for a bit and wait for a nice hand. KK arrived and it held up against JJ and some Ace Rag merchant and I had 30,000.
Now I stopped playing, folding AK under the button to a 2*BB raise. I hadn't played for this long not to score any points and did very little until there was only 20 left. You cannot win a tournament with 25 people left, at no time until I got down to the last 2 did I ever think of winning this thing.
Forgotten everything now until we were down to the last 3. Chip stacks were something like this..
Mad Hungarian: 550,000
Me: 90,000
Goose: 40,000
Blinds 5,000/10,000 so I was playing for 2nd. I was not going all-in against the mad Hungarian until the Goose did. In the end he gave me his chips (forgotten how) and I went into heads-up about a 4-1 dog. AK v AJ was a good start and I doubled through. There was then about 10 minutes of raising and folding until I had a slight chip lead.
I now got AA on the BB. Mad Hungarian minimum raises and I call. Flop was J high and he bets the pot of 48,000 and I rather stupidly minimum raised (should have just called here, not good play). Fortunately he didn't get the hint and went all in with J9 and my Aces held up for my best ever MTT win.
As the message said at the end. Congratulations Doobstar you have won this tournament. Your prize is $0 :-). And all the time I was playing to place, you don't have to be aggressive if the structure is good like this one was. I like MTTs without Antes.
Followed it up with a 3rd (Only 28 this time $10 MTT) and I am in 2nd place and looking good for a high finish.
Played some cash today, did OK but it's not my game, keep playing it like a freezeout. But got the 25 points I needed and will enter the Easter Tournament thing on Monday. good luck anyone else playing that.
