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Ok huge night tonight played in a couple 26 KO's and continued my cold streak in those. Also played a 26 PL holdem multi and busted about an hour in. While this was going on I decided to playing one of FTP's nightly tournaments, the Turbo Hundo. Its a 100 dollar buy in turbo tournament, which I like because many of the usual tournaments I run are turbos. Despite being about 10% of my bankroll I was really feeling it and turbos fit my game well because 1. I'm impatient so a 3 hour tourney works perfect for me and 2. The tournament rewards players who are able to pick spots well and I'm good at that. Let me explain.

Say my stack is 5000 and the blinds are at 400 and 800. I'm deal A8 under the gun. Many players have the mindset of pushing with any A here in hopes of doubling up. The problem is, not only do you have to have 8 players fold, but also consider that there is a 0% chance you are ahead if you get called, unless the big stack tries to bust u with say an A4. This is an easy fold for me

On the other hand with the same stack and blinds, a push with 86 offsuit in late position folded around to me is an easy play. In this case, I only have to beat 2 or 3 random hands. Also, first they have to have a hand to call me with, then they have to beat me. By understanding these concepts, I feel as though I'm more then adequate to run deep in this tournament, despite its large buy in which is more then my usual. Also, this was the 4th time I had played this tournament, and I managed to bubble the final table once, so I knew a deep run was possible.

So I can't think off the top of my head of the main hands leading up to the money. I was about 10th with 17 left when I had to get really lucky. With blinds at 1500 3000 I pushed my stack of 20k in in late position with A2. The small blind snap calls with AQ but I get lucky and hit a deuce on the turn to double to 58k. From there I wasn't really able to make many moves. Won a good race with KJ vs 33 and suddenly I was at the final table 4th in chips. The stacks were not far apart and basically the short stack could double to 3rd in chips at any time. After 5 eliminations (one of which was poker pro Mandy B...don't worry I've never heard of her either) I was in the top 4. It was anyone's game with the big stack at 200k and 3 stacks of 100k one of which was me. I wake up with AK in the bb and snap call the chip leader's all in. She has 1010 and we race for the chip lead. Bad news was she had won the same coin flip earlier to get the chip lead, and sure enough, she wins again I'm busted in 4th for 2632 dollars. First got 6.3k so right now I'm honestly pretty bummed. Tommorow morning I'll wake up and be stoked about it but when all you think about is getting first in a tournament, anything short is disappointing right after, no matter how much you win.

So this win puts my account at 3500 dollars. There is a bit of bright news full tilt checks which had been taking forever and bouncing now seem to be running fairly smoothly so I will attempt a check cash out soon. Will keep you guys updated on the process. Thanks for reading.

PS; Live update I will b playing in the 120 dollar deep stack at the Commerce Casino in two sundays on September 7th.