Decided to play all sorts of games tonight. Started with 1/4 ITM on the usual $20+2 SNGs - a single second place, nothing great. Nothing exciting to report there, except I should have finished first in the one ITM: came in to heads up as a 2-1 dog, outplayed him to a 2-1 favorite, then got him to push all-in while I was holding top set but he caught runner runner for a ridiculous straight draw (filling in his cards, he had one over and one under and needed the exact two cards to fall). He came back to win after that, but I certainly felt good about the results overall: my heads-up game is still very sharp.

Then I jumped in to the $20+2 $34k guaranteed for the first time in...well, too long anyways given that i'm 28.57% ITM across 20+ MTTs. Tonight we had 2157 entrants for a $43,140 prize pool - over $9k for first place and top five all made over $1200.

Made quite a run as the short stack the entire way. Really only played one big hand, calling a short-stack's all-in with KK and winning to almost double up in the fourth level, and otherwise just sniping small uncontested pots here and there to stay alive. I generally had run pretty well playing the short stack role (generally all-in pre-flop over the top of limpers with premium hands, or sniping the blinds from late positions) before bouncing on this hand: I had a little more than 3x the BB at this point and pushed pre-flop in late position with KQo - got two callers - they both checked the flop of rags, I caught a King on the turn and thought I was probably good, but an ace fell on the river, one of the two bet out and I knew I was dead - she turned over ATo and I was gone in 430th. Top 220 paid so I still made a decent run for never catching many good cards.

Two-tabled the $2/$4 BBJ during the tournament. Was down to about $40 on each table before making a run back to be up about $80, then lost a very good amount of money on two hands after busting out of the tournament: running in to slowplayed KK with my QQ with only three people in the hand (right before the table broke up) and then losing with an overpair to a donkey drawing to a flush with jack-four suited (yeah, he called a pre-flop raise with the jackhammer). Ended down about $50 - not terrible but could have been better. I still like tackling the limit BBJ tables because you can find a lot of fishy fish there (four players at one of my tables with a VPIP over 50%), but on the other hand I detest limit poker... just good for a break now and then i guess.

Taking the day off work tomorrow - detailing the M5 in the morning before the buyer flies in to town to inspect it and make off with it. Should have the afternoon free for poker after thats all done...

Source: Performify's Poker Page