Poker Week: Day 4 - Steady As She Goes...

"Find yourself a girl and settle down. Live a simple life in a quiet town. Steady as she goes, steady as she goes." - Steady As She Goes by The Raconteurs



That has been the theme tune for the week so far, I've not been trying to do anything exceptional, just win consistently and it's been paying off so far. Everyday I've won at least $1,000 on the PLO cash games. Yesterday I didn't play as much cash but managed to maintain that form, while I put the hours in playing six MTTs.

The MTTs did not go too well but again the steady as she goes motto seemed to be the focus as I tried not to make any flamboyant moves and just kept things going slow and steady, trying to accumulate chips slowly without getting into any marginal spots. Unfortunately, of the six tournaments I played I only cashed in one, but that's tournament poker.

One I busted early getting AA vs KK all-in preflop only for my opponent to spike a King. Marv. Next up was a straight flush draw with two overs vs TPTK, I missed my outs. I can't remember the other early exit and can't be bothered to go through PT3 to find it. The other tournaments were tales of getting short stacked, card dead and no spots to shove.

The final one that I managed to cash in I lost a big pot when I was fairly chipped up, the hand played out like this. There was a 3X raise UTG (second hand in a row he had raised), UTG+1 shoved (second hand in a row he had shoved over the top of UTG raiser and fourth time in the last orbit). Folded to me in the SB and I have pocket sevens. Now by my reckoning UTG+1 is shoving very light, and UTG who is the big stack at the table is raising frequently and often.

What I didn't want to happen is to smooth the UTG+1 shove only to have UTG move in over the top and I'd have to fold or make a crying call (can't remember the stack sizes, but it's going to be one of the two options) so I decided to shove over the top to isolate UTG+1.

This time he had AQ and an Ace and a Queen on the flop pretty much sealed it for me. That left me with about 15BB and ended up getting it in with KQ vs AJ in a standard button raise, with me reshoving in the BB and getting snapped off. Nothing spectacular happened and I cashed for about $140 which is rubbish considering it was a $250 outlay in total for all the tournaments, but as I said, that's tournament poker. It further underlined to me that PLO cash games is by far my best form of poker.

I'll be taking a step away from the PLO cash games again tonight when I plan on playing the four major Sunday tournaments: PokerStars Sunday Warm-up and Sunday Millions as well as the Full Tilt $750,000 Guaranteed and the FTOPS Main Event. It's over $1,300 worth of tournament entries, but with $6,000,000 in prizes up for grabs I'm hoping to get my piece of it.

Let's hope the steady as she goes motto finally gets me that overdue tournament win tonight.

Daily Bankroll Update: $1,116.30
Bankroll Update for the Week: $6,697.25