Super Busy - Doing Well

Hey, I've been pretty busy with school lately, and my girlfriend is back from Maine for her spring break so I have been hanging out with her for the past week. I haven't played too too much, but I will post some results from my most recent games. I have played 3 sessions I guess, one long one, and two short ones. The first one was Thursday March 1. Adam (fishbones11) was down in Turning Stone and he called me to see if I wanted to finish off his $22 NL hold em Heads Up Shoot Out Match tourny. I said, well, I never play heads up, but I guess I can do it, are you sure you want me to? And he said I can get someone else to do it if you don't want to, but I said I would do it. He said he would give me 33% of what he would win. So when he handed everything over to me, he had already played 6 heads up matches. This tournament started with 156 players and we were down to the last 8 players. Which means I would have to play 3 matches if I made it to the final match. Top 8 was guaranteed $109 or something, which is fine, if I lose, so be it, I make a bit of money and Adam said he didn't care how I did and he was busy and had to do some other things. So I started playing, and I was feeling good and got a good read on my opponent and finished him off. After this first match, I had gained alot of confidence and felt I could do very well and possibly win the whole tournament. So now I am in the final four and we are guaranteed $246 or something, which is sweet. Long story short, I made it to the final match, and I won! This was such a confidence booster which I was happy about the most, and first place was awarded $842, so it was a nice payday for me and Adam.

That night, I drove into Ottawa to wait for my girlfriend to get home, she wasn't going to be in until 4:00am, so I had alot of time to play some poker. I joined six $4.40 180 man sit & gos, but they did not go very well, I had huge stacks in all of them and in my final one, I busted with about 50 left for a pot for the chip lead. It was about a 20K pot or so. The blinds were 100/200 with a 25 ante, UTG+1 made it 1000, which is a huge raise, and I flat called behind him with QQ. The flop was K K Q, WOO! I check raised him from 1200 to 3600, and when he shoved, I knew he had AK, and he did. The river brought an A. So I busted in all of the 180's and called it a night.

Ever since then, I have been playing 1-table sit & gos ($5.50) and been doing very well at them. I have played 3 mini sessions since my girlfriend has been home and have managed to do quite well. I will combine all three sessions into one thing

1-table sit & go: Busted | -$5.50
Heads up: Busted | -$5.25
1-table sit & go: 1/9 | +$17.00
1-table sit & go: 1/9 | +$17.00
1-table sit & go: 2/9 | +$8.00
1-table sit & go: 1/9 | +17.00
1-table sit & go: 3/9 | +4.50
1-table sit & go: Busted | -$5.50
1-table sit & go: Busted | -$5.50
1-table sit & go: Busted | -$5.50
1-table sit & go: 1/9 | +$17.00
1-table sit & go: 2/9 | +$8.00
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TOTAL PROFIT: + $61.25

I haven't played much, but I think I will be sticking to these from now on since I seem to do so well at them.

Matt