Feb 6

Today I went to commerce to play in the $540 6-handed Turbo No limit tournament in the LA Poker Classic. I knew that this would be a good tournament because the majority of players would have no clue how to adjust to a 6-handed turbo structure (assuming the had a clue to begin with). This turned out to be true and in the early stages I increased my chip stack from 2500 to 10,000. Then after all of the original players from my starting table had busted, I knew the new players would be trouble. They were 3 older men who were pretty much there to gamble. These guys pretty much put the clamps on my aggressive play which is essential in this structure with their "oh what the hell, I guess I'll call" type of thought process. I lost a couple small pots and the blinds escalated very quickly until I was short stacked and went all in after everyone folded to me in the small blind with A4. Of course the big blind had AQ and I got saddled with my second straight late but not late enough finish. I was somewhere in the 40's out of 260 and 18 got paid. Oh well, I guess I'll just win the $1560 buy-in tomorrow.

The good news is that I got there a couple hours early and won 1800 at the 10-20 NL cash game. I played really well and made a couple hands and I didn't really want to leave, but the tournament started and I had to go.

When I got home I watch Juno which was very unique and good. I then played for an hour and a half online and made $300. After I stopped I put the new update on my iphone and wrote a blog entry at the same time.