Wasn’t sure if it were possible, but there you have it.

Yeah, I think I was a little on tilt. The table had had the best of me on a couple hands, and their behavior had me mystified. I think I figured that if I were going down, I’d go down big. In other words, I should have left the table and found another.

MultiPoker’s Sunday morning freeroll:

Suck.

I bounced out in 133rd (out of 189) within one or two orbits. Went all-in with KJs; ATo caught an ace on the flop and that was that. He also managed to take down someone with pocket jacks who didn’t improve.

We had our fourth no limit tournament last night. Eight players, $10 buy-in with $5 rebuys available in the first two rounds. No one rebought.

This was probably our best tournament yet, in terms of level of play and the action.

Some highlights:

One poor guy in UTG+1 played the hammer and flopped a boat. Unfortunately someone in SB made his boat with pocket queens when a third Hilton made an appearance on the turn. That was painful to see.

On another hand I raised with AQo and got re-raised over the top by someone who had pocket 7s. I called and caught my ace on the flop, and another on the turn, giving me a full boat to her two pair. That turned out really nicely since she had earlier sucked out a set on the river to my paired ace, ten kicker. In fact, I think she had pocket 7s then as well.

After that I had enough chips to push some blinds around and eventually got in the money.

With pocket 7s in the big blind I mistakenly raised $6 against two callers. Should have figured it was a bad idea after what happened to that girl, but…. The button re-raised $10 and I went all-in to find myself against cowboys. I bounced out in third with 20% of the prize money. Serves me right.

The heads-up play was intense. Lots of back and forth, lots of swapping of position. It lasted for at least two and a half rounds or so, and that meant that they were at it for about two hours (I think 45 minutes is way too long–but last time people complained 30 minutes was too short). There were some tough laydowns, and some crazy all-in action: 1) QJ beating AK when the board made a set on the flop and showed a queen on the river; 2) a postflop AXs flush draw beating top two pair on the river. Same guy held both losing hands. At some point pocket 7s lost again. Ugh.

Finally, with $24 in the pot and the buzzer signaling the end of the $3-$6 blinds, the shorter stack went all-in with AJo. Bigger stack called with K6o. K6 caught a 6 on the flop and won half the prize money. Unbelievable. But after the bad beats and suckouts that happened to K6 earlier, this was his due. The poker gods eventually restore balance and +EV.

Good times.

Another down week.

CR +$3.95
EM +$1.30
ER +$0.60
JB +$2.45
JC -$5.00
Me -$3.30

Lost quite a bit of money to JB in one hand that I raised blind pre-flop. Three people called, giving him odds to call the raise, and really good odds post-flop for his straight draw, which he made on the turn.

At some point I was almost out and found myself heads up with JC, whom I beat with a straight on the turn. Several hands later we were heads up again and I won. Then he went out in a nice three way pot with CR and JB with the board showing a straight flush draw. River gave JC his king high flush, JB his ace high flush, and CR his 7 high straight flush.

MultiPoker’s got these twice-daily freeroll tournaments that get about 100-200 registrants, requiring a commitment of only 1-3 hours. Not bad. In fact, it’s possible to play both the 2PM and 5PM tournaments back to back. It’s good practice if you’re a limit grinder like me.

Unlike PokerStars, you don’t have to wait out a couple thousand maniacs who go all in with anything and suck out on your pocket rockets and cowboys; these players are relatively good and are more likely to respect your bets. It’s still a freeroll, however, so even a good player won’t mind risking his stack if he hasn’t invested much time in the game.

Also unlike Pokerstars, the top 20 spots get paid cash, which is a great overlay on the 100 registrant side, and still decent on the 200 side. Top spot gets $30, spots 11-20 get $1.

Yesterday I placed second and won twenty bucks.