Off To Michigan

well,
Off to Michigan in just a few hours here. The trip to the Birch Run area will take us about 9 maybe 9.5hrs. Not expecting too much trouble from the traffic since we are traveling through the night. That's how I like to roll, can't stand the metro area traffic.

Last few days I've been playing a few MTT's and some short handed LO8. I am acclimating myself to the aggressive style of short handed play, but so far it's going great. I won't even bother mentioning the earn rate right now as it doesn't matter until I can sustain it over a much larger sampling. I did get deep again in an MTT yesterday, it was the $70+5 14.5k gtd KO tourney on FTP. 18th out of 315+ runners, and knocked out 8 people for $120 in bounties. That made the going out in 18th hurt a little less, but I don't feel too terrible. I played well all tourney, and just got in tough spots late with an AQo from bb facing a seemingly obvious fold around raise from the CO. Then with M~8 I made a 2.5x raise from MP w/ TT. Action folded around to SB who shipped in with just enough to cover me. After tanking a minute, I realized that the odds of me being dominated there were pretty slim, and I'd rather go after the final 17 players with an M better than 5 or 6. I called, and he flipped up AJ which was about what I expected. I had just hoped he was < 99. Board brought out Q K 8 5 A.... why does it always have to be the river?! Oh well, nothing major outside that and earning some good dough playing short handed LO8 and a couple of $50 sng wins.

Off we go to Michigan...

FTOPS begins for me on Sunday the 9th!!

P

Update

Hey all,
Basically got tired of running rough in the SNGs yesterday and all but abandoned my 600 tourney goal. I did take some reflection time and look over some statistics for my last 494 $20+2 SNGs. I have an ROI of 8.08% in those, with an ITM of 40.49%. Average finish is 4.22, and I've gotten 1st in 59, 2nd in 75, and 3rd in 66.
I did venture back into some MTT's to start tuning up for my FTOPS run which will begin on the 9th @ 1800est. The FTOPS actually starts Wed the 5th, but I'm only playing in 5 events, the first of which is Sunday. You can follow along with how my backers(40% staked) and I are doing HERE

I ran semi-deep in the 40k gtd on FTP last night, but busted in 33rd with a pretty standard play. IMO villian made an error, or played his hand badly HERE, but maybe my opinion is a bit askew :-) Anyway, not a bid deal, that's MTT's and it felt good to get back into the swing of things and run to 33rd out of 700+ runners. Profit was ~ $100

I'll be on a bit scarce going into this weekend because Stacy and I head to Michigan for the weekend tomorrow evening. Will be the first time meeting her family, so, hopefully things go well. But who couldn't love me!? I'm kidding... or not

Hope the tables are treating everyone well. Good luck out there!

P