Played Friday night and did poorly at 4.40 180 man sng's. Probably 6 or 7 busts in a row and not paying attention enough to have a real shot. So, what does anyone do when they're on a bad streak and underrolled? CASH GAMES!!!

Ok bad idea, but .25/.50 is pretty much a joke so not too too worried about busting more than a buyin or 2.
Hit up two tables and started running well. Went up 100 or so and then cooled down via 3-bet experimentation with AK a couple times. Ended up breaking even for the night.

St. Patrick's day I didn't play but I'm sure the games were quite "loose."

Tonight I decided to jump into .25/50 again and this huge fish kept betting and calling me when I hit monster hands. Took about $70 from him alone and ended up even on other table. Have about 3000 or so hands at this level logged on PokerOffice and am running at like $5.30 an hour or something. To be honest, I'm not sure if that is good or bad (or if this is enough hands to determine anything), but am happy it is above min. wage nonetheless.

Best part of the night however was this $4.40 180 man SnG. I really enjoy these tournies because they are A. cheap B. filled with fish and C. give you MTT/final table experience.

Anyways, 2nd hand of the tourney I botched up a mid pocket pair and lost all but 220 chips. Reverse implied odds are a bitch 3 handed.
Two hands later, I get it all in with A9 and double up. I then proceed to catch pocket aces 3/7 hands and got paid off big on all of them (are you kidding me?), taking me from 450 chips up to 4115. No joke, last place to top 10 in first 20 or so hands. Nice.

AK puts me up to
~7500
KK ---> 14,500 (Can't believe ppl still paying me off at this point)

Gets better. Hit a set with 77 for a pot of 16,000
nice!

Four hands later I'm in BB. Folded to SB and he raises 3x. I (bigstack now) reraise up to 10x or so and hit a miracle A52 flop. Villain has AK, I take down 30,000.

Can't even tell if I'm playing well or not at this point and it didn't matter a bit.

We hit the money, blah blah down to 10 and 2 players get knocked out so guaranteed 8th.

I really enjoy final tables. Getting better at playing for 1st and not just for a decent cash.

Mostly just making key steals/resteals to build slowly and watching ppl drop. I end up taking out the 4th place guy when my A2s hits 2 pair against his AJ. 2 villains left and one has been sitting out the whole final table and ends up finishing 3rd place haha.

Heads up!

DISWAY (119654 in chips)
13mclean (150346 in chips)

Hand 1

Dealt to 13mclean
13mclean: calls 1000
DISWAY: raises 4000 to 6000
13mclean: folds

Hand 2
Dealt to 13mclean
DISWAY: raises 6000 to 8000
13mclean: folds

Hand 3
Dealt to 13mclean
DISWAY: calls 1000
13mclean: checks
* FLOP *
13mclean: checks
DISWAY: bets 6000
13mclean: raises 12000 to 18000
DISWAY: folds

Hand 4
Seat 4: DISWAY (115754 in chips)
Seat 7: 13mclean (154246 in chips)
DISWAY: posts the ante 100
13mclean: posts the ante 100
13mclean: posts small blind 1000
DISWAY: posts big blind 2000
* HOLE CARDS *
Dealt to 13mclean
13mclean: raises 2000 to 4000
DISWAY: calls 2000
* FLOP *
DISWAY: bets 2000
13mclean: raises 10000 to 12000
DISWAY: raises 99654 to 111654 and is all-in
13mclean: calls 99654
* TURN *
* RIVER *
* SHOW DOWN *
DISWAY: shows (high card Queen)
13mclean: shows (a pair of Queens)
13mclean collected 231508 from pot
* SUMMARY *
Total pot 231508 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 4: DISWAY (big blind) showed and lost with high card Queen
Seat 7: 13mclean (button) (small blind) showed and won (231508) with a pair of Queens

This guy was way over aggro whole tourny so tried to adapt my style a bit. If for some reason anyone is still reading this, I would enjoy some comments about the last hand. I felt this was a good shot at taking the tourney down right here with TPGK heads up and felt my hand was good against his range (bluffs quite often). $216 - gimme them monies!

Anyways, I'll take 220 chips --> win any day, but am ready for the bad half of variance which I'm sure will occur very shortly.

past week's 180 man $4.40 SnG status finishes:
4 FT's, 2 wins, ~12ish bustos

Starting BR (3/2): $125
Current BR (3/19): $865.85