Mooooooove Over

Last night was league night, 3 x 10 players razz tourneys and it was time for the alternate game specialists to step up to the plate. And step up we did, I took games 1+3 and Mad took game 2. The first game I had horrible cards and apparently someone had stuck the bring-in magnet under my chair because I had it time after time. These games start five handed and go to a traditional 8 seater after two players have been eliminated. I was the short-stack by the time that happened. Fortunately the bets were high enough to gain some fold equity and I hung in, bided my time, and slowly built myself a competitive stack. Players slowly fell by the wayside and after a long period of small door card raises everyone folds we burst the bubble. The eventual winner eliminated 4th and 3rd place leaving me HU against a much larger stack. That was when the bring-in curse struck again. As a rough guess I`d say I had to pay it 70-80% of the time and although I fought valiently for a while I eventually had to gamble and lost. Still, second place was good points and I`d finished ahead of our rivals.

Mad4Cards continued the run taking down game 2. So final game and this time I had a decent start. I took a couple of solid gambles and eliminated a tilting bluelips and 1CanadianGirl and we were at the final table. This game had a completely different dynamic. Three large stacks and everyone else pretty short-stacked. I avoided any confrontations and concentrated on picking off the weak stacks. After a while they started to drop like flies. Only one player at the table really mattered to our points and twice he escaped elimination at my hands building a healthy stack in the process. Then the bring-in curse struck again and for a while it looked as if I might bubble. Fortunately I was able to complete a few bets and pick up those all important antes and bring-ins. The bubble burst and the 3rd place finisher was eliminated leaving me HU with oioiMalloy. Again I was heavily out chipped and a gamble to double-up failed leaving me with another 2nd place finish.

So a fantastic team performance that`s seen us jump two places and take the lead in the league by 10 points. With more alternative poker to follow over the weekend we`ll be looking to extend our lead and then take down the trophy.