As you might have read in my previous post on this subject, I've been trying the PS steps to get my seat this year. I made it to Step 6 and flamed out really quicky finishing last.

I took a two week break after the disappointment of my flameout and tried again. I began at Step 3 and won it so I immediately played in a Step 4 and Step 3 at the same time. I won the Step 3 again and was cruising along in the Step 4 when with about 5 people left to go my KK ran into AK and met a nice little A on the flop so I was out.

I had some time so played the second Step 4 and won that one pretty routinely and then had an interesting ride in the Step 5. I kept on going up and down and somehow managed to hang on until 3 handed. With 3 to go, you are basically freerolling since, at worst, you can still play the Step 5 again which is pretty nice since it's a $700 tournament. I played standard push-bot poker and never got into the lead, but always managed to stay close to 3rd and then was lucky when the leader took out the 3rd player so it was a very fast ride to my second Step 6.

Step 6

I was feeling good and saw no need to wait 2 weeks with my ticket like I did last time so I immediately registered and it only took a few minutes to seat all 9 players. Barry Greenstein didn't join me this time but the lineup looked pretty solid.

One of the players had a connection problem and it was agony for the rest of us. PS has a very lenient policy at these high buy-in games (the seat to the game cost $2.2k). They give the player 240 seconds to act when disconnected before sitting them out. That's fine, but the guy kept on reconnecting for a few seconds and then disconnecting, so almost every hand we had to wait 4 minutes for him to time-out. This went on for about 30-40 minutes and then he finally fixed his connection.

So I had 3 hands that did me in:

- 88: called MP raise from LP. One overcard, guy bets, I call. I give it up on turn.

- JJ: raised from button, SB calls. Flop comes with a K. SB bets, I call. SB checks the turn, I check too. SB bets the river, I call and he shows KJ. Great!

I won a few minor hands of note, but nothing much so with one player out and blinds at 75/150 and me down to around 1800:

- AK: Two limpers I push, get called by BB who turns over QQ. Flop comes TJx so now I have 2 more outs but it's not to be.

What fun!

- S

St_Lucifer says

sucks man... better luck next time

05/30/08

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