friday night grindin, back-door beauty?

so i played 9 tourneys this evening- 8 on full tilt and the 1am turbo hundo on stars. it was a pretty frustrating night, although i've certainly had worse.

early on i won a seat in a sng to an event ftp was having called the January 2nd Chance. it started at 9, had a $535 buyin and allowed you to rebuy for free if you lost all your biscuits in the first two hours. you only started with 2,222 biscotti rather than the standard-issue 3k on stars. not sure how i feel about this set up. i would certainly prefer a deeper starting stack than a free rebuy and baby biscuits.

anyway, i started playing about an hour after i got out of bed at the early hour of 430pm. i made the 3rd hour of a couple events but crapped out before i made the money. i was thinking of calling it an evening, cashing out my seat for that 5hundo and hitting the town for some adult beverages. but i kept doubling up a baby stack in the 8:30 33 rebuy until i had chips that i could no longer dust off willy-nilly in good conscience. therefore i went ahead and played that 5hundo. i never had even an average stack in either tourney but i managed to min-cash in both of them.
i lost a race just inside the money in the 5hundo, which might have given me a shot at the 40k first prize. i ended up making less than 100 dollars for the evening. 12 yr old sweatshop workers in micronesia would be displeased with this wage.

i played one kind of goofy hand in the 30rebuy. at 1-2k blinds, i got pretty lucky to double up to just over 40k when my AQ outdrew AK. just a few hands later, the massive chipleader of the tourney (approx 120k) limped utg. i had AQ clubs on the cutoff and decided to just limp behind and play a little carefully in position. the blinds completed and the flop came Qs5d2d. it was checked to me and i bet 6600 into about 10k. the blinds folded and the bigstack minraised me. i ended up tanking and then shoving with tptk and was shown 555. i think in retrospect, i should have found the fold button here, regardless of the outcome. even though i had no info on the player cuz he had just arrived at the table, he limped utg and check minraised a pretty clean board. his most likely hands are aa, kk, 55, 22, kq or some sort of combo draw. i am in good shape against exactly one of those hands. its possible that he has a pair btwn the 5 and q but that is not going to be the case very often, and when it is, most players fold to my reshove on flop. not to mention the fact that i had newlyfound biscuits and could have folded, left about 34k behind and found a much better spot. anyway, live and learn.

an uneventful day overall. watched fear and loathing on hbo for about the eleventh time. it really never gets old for me. the napkin scene at the diner with Ellen Barkin sticks in my mind tonight for some reason. "The question mark was emphasized!" remarkable.