I think I'm on a bit of a heater

I just hope it continues.

Over the past weekend, I've had a big run online. I had my best $1/2 session yet and last night, I took down a 180-man SnG over at Stars. Now, it was only a $4 one, but the quality of play between $4 and $20 isn't as much as you'd think. Anyway, it was more about avoiding blowups that doing anything spectacular. I doubled up early, hung around, doubled up again, hung around. As the bubble starting closing in, I was mired in the bottom 3-4 positions. With 20 left, I was in dead last. It wasn't anything I could control as I had absolutely nothing to work with and had a fairly deep table that was calling off most all-ins. I caught a break and doubled up with A4 vs KJ to make ITM.

From there, it got exciting. Once the bubble popped, I doubled up again when I got AA in the SB. I only had about 4 BB left, so that was nice. 3 hands later, I got TT, pushed, got called by 2 of the big stacks and shot from 15th to 6th. Once I got chips, the game changed a bit. I started shoving chips all over the place and since I'd had nothing to work with, the table just bent over and gave up. By the time they realized I was pushing with all kinds of hands, I was in the chip lead. I gave some back when one of the other bigger stacks realized what I was doing, but I was still in good shape in 3rd place as we hit the final table. I let a couple of the short stacks push, I busted one with AK vs A6, and I was in the lead again. I really don't remember how I got the heads up, but that's what happened.

The heads up was fun and frustrating all at the same time. I went hyper aggressive. Raising with just about everything short of 2 7 off. The villain folded about 80% of the time, called a couple, and jammed a couple. This guy was incredibly weak.....and lucky. I caught some big hands, but couldn't get him to play. I had a 2 to 1 chip lead for a long time until I pushed with A2 and ran into his KK. To my credit, I maintained focus and eventually kept after him until I got the lead back. About 10 hands later I finally wore him down got him in a hand with 77 vs. KQ. He didn't improve and I took down my first 180-man.

It felt pretty good as I've been mired in a tourney slump. Albeit the competition was fairly soft, it still takes a little something to beat 180 people. It also boosted my roll over at Stars, which never hurts.

As of last night, I've tripled my online roll over the last 2 1/2 months. Not bad. It's a shame I had to cash out as much as I did last year, or I would be very pleased with my online situation right now.

Can't complain, though, I'm hanging in there.

Tomorrow afternoon, I'm heading up to Caesar's Indiana to meet up with a couple of +1'ers for a couple of days of poker action. Looking forward to it as I don't get to play that much live. I've played maybe 50 hands today and made about $40, nothing major, but a nice little profit for an hour's work.

I should have some interesting stuff to post Sunday as the boat always yields something to remember. If I can win 5% of what I did last time, I'll be a happy camper.

:D