Question #1 What Is Your Excuse?

Question #2 Why do you suck at poker?
Question #3 Are your friends and family aware that you suck at poker?
Question #4 What is your excuse for living?

Above are from last nights Big Game, where is was decided that the first eliminated would be interviewed by Miami Don (the anti-mookie approach).

Thank god it was not me who was first out, because I am not prepared for the public humiliation. I do have thick skin though. You need to have it if your me. I get no respect.

Things started off for me just like last time. I was getting decent cards early, and slowly chipping up. The big hand for me would come quickly. I get AA in one of the blinds I think, and after a bunch of limpers, pop it up 6x. Lucko calls. Flop comes A4x all hearts. Well I have top set, but am in a little trouble with all the hearts. I bet out about T400, and lucko reraises to T1000. I am not going to put him on the flush, and I would have outs even if he has it, so I push. Lucko correctly states that he can't put me on the flush, but unfortunately he flopped bottom set. He has to call and does. He is drawing to one out, and I hold up to get north of 6k in chips.

After, all the chatter after this hand, I felt like I needed to apologize for that hand. Sorry, I think I played it pretty well. I got all the money in on the flop, which was key because a forth heart hit on the turn. Not saying I outplayed lucko. He played it right to. I just got lucky and found myself in a great situation. Do I have to apologize for that?

So I was in great shape early, but there was a lot of poker to still be played. I started bleeding chips away. Cmitch outplayed me on a key hand, that further lowered my stack. When the final table formed, I was 8 or 9th in chips, and a long stretch from the money. It folds to me in the SB, and I have 66. Superstoner who I have labeled as a "nut peddler" is in the BB. I want to take it down right now, so I pop it up big (almost 1/2 my stack). I figure he is folding 85%+ of his hand to that raise. Superstoner raises enough to put me all-in. I figure him for overs and not a bigger pair. I call and am racing against AK. A king on the flop and IGHN in 9th. I think I had to play it that way so those are the breaks. Congrats to superstoner who won the event, and to my pal smokkee for taking second.

I have run 15 of the 90 player S&Gs on FullTilt, and am loving them. I have 2 top threes, 3 final tables, and 6 cashes which is pretty good for 15 tries IMO. You just play them ubertight until in the money, then try to chip-up as required after you get down to two tables. If you double up once, you can cruise to the money. Another thing I like about them is there are no antes ever. This structure is about as good as I can get for my playing style. They also run pretty quick. Bubble is around 1 1/2 hours in. Final table in about 2 hours. It is a quick way to get end game experience in MTTs. Try em, you'll like em.