Played 6max for a few hours and was down, then up, then down, then back to zero. About the only thing that lessened the futility of it was that my all-in ev line was way up, but then Sklansky bucks doesn’t get too many cheeseburgers.

So I had a look at the tourneys to see what was happening, and a $3 180man rebuy was about to fill so I jumped in. Figured it’d be good for something to do while the Grand Prix was on.

While waiting for it to start I filtered my HEM onto MTTs that were 180 entrants or more, and was amazed to see that out of the dozen or so I’d played I’d cashed in 30%! They were almost all $2 games, usually all for the same reason I’d entered this $3 game (killing time basically). None of them had cashed that high, but it was almost $100 profit, which is pretty sweet for $2 games (ok, not that sweet considering they were MTTs, but it’s still a nice ROI of 180%).

Since this $3 game was a rebuy obviously the first 30 minutes was a ridiculous shovefest. I kinda stayed out of it until the last minute and put a few of my own shoves in before getting the add-on (didn’t go my way of course, so started after the break with what the minimum – or should be the minimum, it’s surprising how many people didn’t rebuy or add-on though, so really I wasn’t in bad shape). It occured to me that rebuys make for a low rake game – I’d always steered clear of them, but it makes sense to me now.

I had a reasonable run and moved up to roughly top third of stacks, then did this;

Insane, or genius read? Figured there were far more bluffs in his range than actually hitting that king (um, didn’t really consider the possibility of PPs though, which was a mistake really). Really I should have played it as a stop and go, and donk-shoved the flop (I’m not that brave though).

Anyway, that put me as chipleader. I maintained it more or less until we were ITM. It then faded a bit and I finally go to the final table as the middle stack – even though many of us were still reasonably deep (kinda, M’s > 8 at least) the play was very aggressive and I hadn’t anything that stood up in even a small way.

I tried one raise from the CO which got shoved on and I folded. I was then down to an M of 3 and this happened;

so I went out as 9th with a little win of $29. So frustrating when the big prize of $500 was only 8 seats away and I’d just beat 171 other people to get there. I then kicked myself even harder when I realised the SB would be totally fucked after paying the BB and if I’d only waited another orbit I’d have doubled my prize (in my dreams maybe, much more likely is that the little shit would have doubled up).