Well, for the first time in a few months I actually fired up my software and played poker today. Part of the reason for the break was life getting in the way, but after the PCA in Atlantis maybe I was frustrated with my play too. In any case, frustrated or not, the WSOP is coming up rapidly and I need to win a seat again this year. I am really starting late in the game, but hopefully I will still be able to pull a rabbit out of the hat again this year. I missed the Bodog $270 signup today because they were having problems with their Click2Pay account so I couldn’t deposit (Grrrrrr). After the WSOP last year, Bodog had such a phat setup that I promised myself I would try to qualify through them this year if I could. In any case, I will try to play in it tomorrow assuming that they have their cashier running right again.
So where I ended up playing was on Pokerstars. Since I haven’t been playing, I didn’t have much in my account so ended up playing a $80 SNG which gave away a seat into the $650 Main Event Satellite. I ended up getting heads up at the table outchipped 3 to 1, and then made a dumb move by pushing preflop with QTo after a raise by the big stack. I realize in retrospect that he wasn’t going to fold any hand with the price I was giving him (the chip stacks were like 9K and 3.5K and he raised it to 1200. The better move would have been to do a stop N Go and push on the flop regardless of what came. Instead I ended up dominated against AT and didn’t improve. 2nd gave me my $80 back but it is really frustrating to make a mistake like that. Ah well. At that point it was too late to play in another qualifier, so the ME qualifier isn’t for me today.