Got the chance to play some poker the past couple of days.

Monday night played a couple 20$ sit-n-gos with some friends. The first tournament I played pretty tight for most of the time, I never accumulated a real stack and I didn't knock anyone out. I chipped away at the blinds time after time with some junk to stay alive, nobody would really face me in any all-in pots fortunately except for one hand where I doubled up. I believe my final chip-count was around 2000 after starting with 1000, but that was good enough to make a chop for 2nd for $55.

The secound tourney yet again I was card dead, I didn't get anything started at all this time, I was coaching one of my friends as he played online so I wasn't giving it my full attention. Only 6 of us played the 2nd tourney, we got down to 3 handed and I was around 700 in chips, I was playing my short stack very effectively, I honestly only made a single mistake where I could have bought the pot but checked instead and I made one unsuccessful bluff on the river. With about 1500 in chips I managed to trap the chip-leader to call my all-in when I flopped bottom pair, he called with with A8 and turned an 8 to knock me out. i wish I remembered what the blinds ect were because it was a very sweet hand, I played it ideally, I just got sucked out on.

I played some online today, I made about 200$ for the session. Here is one of the hands that got me started:

GAME #471568635: Texas Hold'em NL $2/$4 2007-01-09 16:29:32

Table Burbank (8 max)
Seat 1: gele02 ($267.60 in chips)
Seat 2: plusEVdg ($178.10 in chips) DEALER
Seat 4: dackjaniels2001 ($312.75 in chips)
Seat 5: jervas ($457.70 in chips)
Seat 6: Kiewer ($60.00 in chips)
Seat 7: prince999 ($482.50 in chips)
Seat 9: lerdorf ($257.00 in chips)
Seat 10: THIERRY21 ($101.30 in chips)
dackjaniels2001: Post SB $2.00
jervas: Post BB $4.00

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to plusEVdg [Ad Qc]

Kiewer: Fold
prince999: Fold
lerdorf: Fold
THIERRY21: Fold
gele02: Fold
plusEVdg: Raise $12.00
dackjaniels2001: Fold
jervas: Call $8.00

*** FLOP ***
As 8s Jh

jervas: Check
plusEVdg: Check

*** TURN ***
3s

jervas: Check
plusEVdg: Bet $8.00
jervas: Call $8.00

*** RIVER ***
3h

jervas: Check
plusEVdg: Bet $44.00
jervas: Call $44.00

*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $127.00 Rake $3.00
plusEVdg: wins $127.00

Dealt to jervas Ac 10d

In previous hands I really set this guy up, I wanted him to think I had a hand like TT or QQ. My check on the flop is incredibly cagey, but my check on the flop was the only reason my man called the $44 overbet on the river :) If I bet on every street I surely wouldn't have made as much money, I think I squeezed as much as possible from this hand.

By the way, I'm playing 2/4 because I am sick of titan poker and I really don't care enough about the money to get them to send me the $350 I had in my account so my plan was to turn it into something worth having, or just busto myself at that site. I'm not quite up to 1K but I'm not quitting there until I do, after that I'll focus on pokerstars.