A Change of Diet

I`ve backed off playing Razz and HORSE for a while, I`ve been getting frustrated, especially in Razz. The final straw was a 29 player tourney on Monday where I finished a miserable 20th. Constantly hitting bricks is annoying, if I remember correctly I only needed to hit a 10 or less that didn`t pair my hand and of course 7th street brings me a J.

On the brightside my hold em game is running pretty well. On Tuesday I played an online satellite to gain entry into the Virgin Poker festival. The sat. was arranged by the guys over at UK poker Life and we had a field of 24 take a shot at it. I had a warm feeling about the game as on the 2nd hand I limped in with 33 from late position, flopped a set, and turned quads. Unfortunately the payoff was small as no-one else hit anything but still a nice start. I really can`t fault my play throughout the game. I made very few mistakes, the only memorable one being tangling with the chip leader after I flopped top pair from the BB. I led out and he called, I fired again when a blank hit the turn but he re-raised me and I decided to lay it down. Given his style of play I strongly suspect he was just bullying.

I ended up finishing 4th. No seat but my buy-in back plus change and a thoroughly enjoyable game. I`m feeling lazy so if you want to see how things went down at the final table click here