Entered a $30+3 MTT with 1190 people on Tuesday night, and ran up to 402nd place before getting KK cracked by A9o (limper called a 5x BB raise which was 75% of my stack, gotta love it).

In brighter news, tonight I cashed again in the $20+2 "$34k Guaranteed". I played very good tournament poker and was above average the entire way, until getting kings cracked by a smaller stack about 100 people before we hit the money: I 4x'd the BB from early position, got called by the BB who hit trip threeve on a flop of 359 and who proceeded to push the flop for about half of my remaining stack, 2x the pot. His overbet worked - I called thinking he was on a semi-bluff (or even an overpair smaller than my kings) and boy was I wrong. I went from second in chips at the table to bottom three.

I then tightened the hell up and squeeked in to the money (top 220 paid). Once ITM I managed to win my manditory all-in hand (passed on calling a raise from the BB getting 3-1, instead pushing from the SB with whatever i had which happened to be a dominating hand when the BB had to call), then caught KK next hand on the button and trippled up to put myself in position to actually play some more (5BB stack). Rather than playing ultra-tight to try to jump another level or two I decided to play more agressive, and ended up busting out after pushing A7o from the SB into a much larger stack (after it was folded around to me) and running into the BB's ATo which was good enough to win unimproved. Bad timing. I finish 186th out of 2202 entrants.

In retrospect looking at the hand (Comment #1), blinds were 500/1000 and I had just over T4000 chips after losing my BB hand and posting my T500 SB. Pushing any ace there seems +EV given the circumstances, but I certainly could have played a little more conservatively (hoping for a big pair or bigger ace in the next 2-3 orbits) but I'm not dissatisfied with my overall play by any means.

This brings me to 37.5% ITM lifetime on $20+2 MTTs (22.91% ROI) and lifetime MTT stats of 31.58% ITM with just over 500% ROI. I'm doing better on my goal to play more big MTTs more frequently - thats two this week alone, and i'm sure I'll get some poker in this weekend...

SNG update: Since last post I've played 7 x $22 SNGs with 57% ITM and 30% ROI, and 5 x $33 SNGs with only 20% ITM and negative ROI. So far i'm just over 40% ITM with 6% ROI at the $33 level, so I'm still doing OK there despite the downturn. I'm green at every level of single table SNGs, and I think i've got what it takes to stick around the $33 level for now. I'll probably continue to mix the $22s and $33s until I rebuild the bankroll after cashing out a grand earlier in the month...

Source: Performify's Poker Page