Control!!

Well hope everyone had a good weekend, mine was ok, started off well saturday with Man Utd somehow getting a great, if undeserved, win against Liverpool on Sat!!! but the rest of the weekend was taken up trying to sort out my insurance for the accident my GF had in the car last week.... anyway on to poker

so this morning the GF leaves for work at around the usual leaving me with at least 45mins of poker time!! so i load up Full Tilt, and register for a $2+25c turbo player SNG... starts off beautifully!! couple of shitty hands then in the BB i find QQ, think 2/3 callers and back to me so i raise bout 3xBB and get 1 caller:
flop AQ10, no flush!! now that was so sweet!! as i early and raised i figure at least one person gotta have am ace if not 2 pair or maybe a draw, little risky but i gotta let them lean out so i check, first player makes a small bet, button min raises, so now i decide to see where i am i reraise to a couple hundred or so, 1st guy folds button calls, turn is a blank so i bet bout 900 which is just less than the pot, the button only has bout 1100 so i figured this was enough to get it all in, sure enough he went in, i called and he showed AK, my set was good and an early double up and down to 8!!

well a few hands later i get AQ, i raise few callers see a AQ rag flop, oh yes!! i check there is some betting and i raise, the medium stack goes all in as i wanted the other folds, i call and he's got A8 and he's gone!!

from then on i was never in trouble played solid poker, til we got down to 4

then things slowed up and we were all fairly even, and i had to fold a few raises to all in pushes, i rode my luck a few times when all in but made the final 3 just 2nd in chips, then in the BB i get 99, the chip leader calls i decide to push even if just to steal the 1500 in blinds, he calls with AJ and flop comes QJ4, no luck and i out in 3rd for a small profit

disappointed with my play at the end but didn't lose money. need to work on my last 4 play and when down to 3 as think i too passive and get blinded away, slash raise then fold to an all in as don't wanna risk on something like A10, maybe if i raise unles i stealing i should just be prepared to pump it all in if reraised and take my chances???

after that i did something very silly but thats a story for tomorrow

PK69