I’ve decided against doing a recap of the 2nd place finish because it’s already been 3 days. Recaps need to be typed up soon afterwards because the excitement and my memory is gone.

I remember making 3 mistakes throughout the tournament. The first I can’t remember for the life of me. The second mistake was an attemped blind steal when we were down to about 20 players. I had A6o on the button and ran into AK in the big blind. The board double paired and we split the pot otherwise I was gone. Phew! The third mistake was the costly one. We were playing heads up for a good half hour. Back and forth went the chip lead with solid play from both sides. He raised from the small blind and I decided I was going to push with my A2o. I hadn’t come over the top of him in quite some time pre-flop and I acted too quickly. He called with pocket sevens and I didn’t get any help from the board. Game over.

I got impatient and made a dumb move when there was plenty of time to maneuver. The blinds were still small compared to our chip counts and I was playing great poker. I’ll have to remember not to act so quickly the next time in the same situation. No sense in risking all of my chips with only an ace.

Another upcoming post I mentioned about my findings from Poker Tracker will be on the way this week, but I want to put some time into it. There is a lot of data there so I want to week out the good stuff. For a sneak peak I’ll just say that I’ve been wrong about being a better limit player than no-limit and wrong about being better in cash games than in tournaments. It’s not even close in fact. More on that later.

In a bit I’ll be playing my first round match for the Heads-Up Challenge 2 against Drizz. He claims to be an O8 player and said to me, “be forewarned I suck at NLHE.” I think he’s just setting me up, but we’ll see.