Little Questing

I jumped into a cheap SnG on FullTilt yesterday on behalf of The Quest. This was the first tournament in my recollection where I had good success playing on almost entirely chutzpah. Until fairly late I got no really good cards at all. Suited connectors were the best I saw.

This was, however, a table full of people who were almost all obviously playing their cards, not the board or the other players. I stole pot after pot with impunity. I even was forced to show some of the total junk I was playing and still no one seemed to catch on that most of the time I was betting with air.

When it got down to heads up I was slightly behind. It took just a couple hands to correct that. I turned up the heat even more and my opponent clearly didn't know how to handle it. It didn't hurt that I actually started getting some cards. I think heads up might have lasted five minutes. If only they were all this easy. Add another $6.75 to The Quest bankroll.

My Full Tilt bonus chase is officially over. I cleared $20 of the $50 bonus and lost $170 doing so. Well worth the effort. (Where's that sarcasm emoticon?) This was not considered part of The Quest since I was playing way beyond my Quest bankroll on this.

I'm planning to take all of Thanksgiving week off of work. This might be a good opportunity to head back over to the Hard Rock in Tampa. It's been two years since I played the $275 tourney there on Thanksgiving. They've been offering $100 buy-in NL for over a year now. Maybe it's time to check it out. If it turns out to be anything like my recent experience on the casino cruise it could end up quite profitable.