Today was a good day

I'm trying to practice my endgame and short handed play lately, so I've been playing a lot of $5 single table sit and gos, and pretty much breaking even. Single table tournaments are nice because they
last an hour and a half at most, but the biggest return you can get on your money is $16.50, so I don't necessarily want to specialize in them.

To break up the monotony of playing the same short game over and over, I decided to play the same thing, but with 844 players instead. It was a $5 knockout tournament that pays $1 for every player you elimnate, and by the time we hit the money, I had about six big blinds and I was just glad that I had made my money back from bounties. An hour later, I'm on the final table with a mediumish stack, pocket kings in the small blind, facing an early position raise from the chip leader. I'm salivating....

What I should have done was just make it a stop and go play, call his raise, and if I see no ace, shove it on the flop. That would have put me somewhere around uh..... THIRD PLACE with 7 people left in the tournament. Instead, I decided to shove all my chips in before the flop, allowing my opponent the advantage of being able to see all 5 board cards. Yeah, his AJ offsuit made him a straight on the river. This is why I fail.

Still, bounties equaling $6 and a cash of $106 isn't bad for 3 hours work. Bankroll = $417.56.

Until tomorrow...