Well last night's 1$ horse tourney basically involved me donking off all my chips while watching Coronation st - can't really say I attempted to play it to the best of my ability so not too worried about going out early.

Just played one tourney toda so far - 3$ horse - just finished 24/432 for $9.08 so must be doing something right. That's 4 cashes out of 8 tourneys now including the one I wasn't too bothered about so can't be bad.

Sick of Ladbrokes tables freezing so just played 1 stt on there which I bubbled.
Transferred 35$ to sports though which turned into 70 largely thanks to ipswich's 1st away win in ten months which I had 15$ on at 7/4

Off to the pub now but will prob play the horse tourney later.

Back from an empty pub complete with depressed bar owner due to lack of trade from the smoking ban. This guy is a non smoker but wants the right to allow people to smoke in his pub. Whole thing is a disgrace.
Played the 3$ HORSE tourney came 81/520 odd. Not bad but made some very silly plays mainly by staying in pots where I knew I was behind instead of cuting my losses. having said that I was only 9 places off the money and was unlucky at the end - got a few in on Omaha - any low pot would have made me some chips but a hig board meant I had to get out then when I got the last lot in only the river stopped me scooping the pot and probably a cash finish. Shame they don't do horse stt's.

Playing the 10$ rebuy on laddies - 251 runners but with 66 left I only have 7 BB's and need a double fast. Still - won a turbo sat to the graveyard for 5$ so hopefully I can do something in that.

Bugger. Thought my Ak was good to push with after a min raise from cutoff - would have been except he had AA :-(

Better do something in the GY otherwise my ladbrokes career may soon be over.

Well I did manage to do something in the GY for once - 2nd from 77 runners for 616$.
Seeing as it only cost me 5$ that's not a bad return. Doubled up very early on with KK - raised 4 x BB from UTG and got two callers. Flop was rainbow and low so I bet the pot and got one caller. Q on the turn so I bet out nearly all I have and get put all in - he shows AQ and that was me looking good early on. Didn't have many cards after that but kept my stack ok for an hour or so - at one point I was down to 16th from 29 left but I seem to have acquired the knack of winning pots without having the cards - seemed like I was betting in all the right places and of course folding when someone pushed back at me.

Crucial part of the game was with about 14 left when it became obvious that everyone was playing for the bubble (ten paid). There was also one player disconnected so people were waiting for him too. I was about 8/14 at this point and without seeing a flop moved up to 3rd place by pure aggression - something that I lack usually - maybe it's all the horse tourneys that have changed my out look on the game. funny hand occurred with eleven left - well funny for me but not for the guy who bubbled.

I was consistently raising the BB of the disco guy - it was obvious he wasn't coming back - if I thought there was a chance of that I would have slowed down - so when the guy to my left went all in when I had raised with J4 I had to call - blinds were 800/1600 and he'd gone all in for about 5400 - my initial raise having been about 3600 to steal I had to put in about 2000 into 9000. Unfortunately for him he had AK so I knocked him out on the bubble when a 4 came on the turn.

Final table was a matter of patience but stole a few pots - was third when I got to ft so was pretty easy to get to last 3. Got a lot of support from the night owls of the ladbrokes forum. Does feel good to know that people want you to win - just hope one of us gets to the WSOP one day :-)

Buggered up the heads up though. Other guy had taken out the 3rd place guy so was about 2/1 chippy. Lost the first few pots so decided to get aggressive with Q2. To be honest I was playing it blind - the idea was to make him fold and my pot size bet on the flop after he'd called my raise wasn't enough. Probably should have given it up there but made another big bet after the turn which he called and when the river came there was no way I was winning so had to fold. Either ran into a hand or a very good player so can't complain. Another time i might have made him fold and we'd have been back 50/50.

Cashed out 300$ - don't really need it as I just got paid but will do when i'm out of work in May - not that it will last till then. Cashed out mainly so that I am in profit on poker for the year. I think :-). Will have to check some day but think that puts me up a couple of hundred dollars - plus I still have a 300$ roll to play with.