2/6 ITM tonight on $22 SNGs, with a first and a second for 21.21% ROI. Leaves me at 34.15% ITM with 10.86% ROI lifetime at the $20+2 level. I mostly spent the night playing multi-table tournaments. Started with a three-table $5+1, just trying to get those stats back in the green - finished ninth there, nothing spectacular. I need one more top three finish to go green lifetime (20% ITM lifetime there) and then i'm done with those forever...

Entered the 7:30 $10+1 No Limit tournament. Bounced out early there when i caught top set on the flop, got an overpair to put all his money in re-raising me, and then he caught his two-outer on the river to send me home.

Before I entered the $10+1, I saw a $20+2 Hold'Em tournament with 580 entrants starting up (#427118). I quickly bought in, without realizing that it was a limit tournament. Damn, I hate limit. However, things worked out well, as I finished 13th overall for a payday of ~$100. My tournament game played out well despite the limit format - I played a tight, agressive game, was chipleader at my table for the first 3/4th of the way and never fell below average for more than an orbit, until we were in the final three tables. Only made a couple minor mistakes along the way - my biggest mistake was misplaying a nut flush draw, ending up putting in a couple bets more than I needed to while on the draw, including calling an extra big bet on a river where I missed my nut flush draw but caught a medium pair - the way my opponent was betting I knew he had top pair so it was a stupid frustration call on the end...

I did face two major suckouts along the way (Bad Beat Story alert - beware) - both in the last stages of the tournament, which pretty much kept me from coasting to the final table. QQ getting cracked by 88, I raise pre-flop, flop comes ace rag rag and I don't give him credit for the ace. I'm betting out all the way and he's calling - he catches his third eight on the river and I've lost half my stack, dropping from the top ten in chips to under the average with ~25 remaining. Final hand I get bounced, I raise from the BB with ATo and am called by one of two limpers. Ace on the rainbow flop and we re-raise all the money in the middle - he turns over A3s and I'm way way ahead. Ten on the turn but its a second spade, and the river brings one more for the runner-runner flush to send me home 13th.

Ultimately I feel my MTT skills are still my top game, even with my recent focus on SNGs. I'm 29.41% ITM lifetime on MTTs with 604% ROI. 33.52% ITM with 45.72% ROI across all tournament games (SNGs and MTTs combined). I really need to focus on playing the big MTTs more often, but its hard to sit down for three to four hours multiple nights each week. I need to at least make it a goal to play MTTs at least one night each week.

My roommate VG played in the NL $10+1 MTT and finished ITM at 69th - lost 90% of his stack on a coinflip with QQ running in to AKo (king on the flop) and then bounced very next hand losing middle pair on the flop to an OESD that completed on the river. He had a very good run, and always got his money in the middle with the best hand - the most you can ask for, besides Aces every hand...

Source: Performify's Poker Page