Ready for another sweet Sunday

I can't believe the year is already 10 days old. Man, life flies when you're having fun ... and also not. I know I already broke my resolution of a post a day here, but what the heck -- how many resolutions survive a full year? So might as well get it over early in breaking 'em!

One thing I'm hoping not to get over early is my participation in tournaments today. Specifically, Full Tilt's The Big Little Tournament. Qualified in a satellite on Friday for this week's $5.50 event, which guarantees $250K prize pool. Today's 12:45 pm (all times Central) game is Turbo (5-minute) NLHE, so it's going to be wild from the get-go. My goal is to do better than last Sunday's regular-timed-levels BLT, when I finished 5,676th (of 46,105 entrants) and pocketed $7.50. A couple good hands early today, please, dealers!

Also on tap for me today will probably be the Gaming Forum Network's $5.50 buy-in with $50 added at 3p at UB (formerly Ultimate Bet) (and more on GFN in a moment), plus maybe the H0 Radio games at 9p at UB (weekly freeroll and $5.50, $100-added buy-in run simultaneously, bonus if ya win both, which I don't think anyone has done yet). The H0 Radio games are co-sponsored by Rounders Radio, and that's where we get the passwords, either via the broadcast at 7p or in the Rounders Radio Chat Room. I may also play one of Poker101a's games, depending on how things are going today; eric's gang has games at 7p (freeroll) and 8p (buy-in) at UB/AP, and they're part of the Poker Forum Network that plays at 4p (freeroll) and 6p (buy-in) at Doyle's Room. Yup, busy busy day.

Saturday wasn't that busy -- mainly because I was in the GFN (told ya I'd get back to them) $100 Freeroll at UB for almost 5 hours. The satisfying news was I made the final table, learned from some very tough rivals and some big stacks in action, finished 4th/222 entrants and pocketed $10. The frustrations included not winning, getting "so little" payoff for playing so long, and that the final table overlapped the start of the Poker Analysis Heads-Up Challenge III that I hosted at Doyle's. Needless to say, two things at once didn't work well for me (although it went a bit better than normal). Didn't get a first-round bye, faced very tough PA regular dcrat (known as rattler3 at Doyles), fell behind early and finally bowed out after a 22-minute struggle. At least our first-round match lasted longest of the 7 opening matches, thus giving me a little solace. Congrats to mjo (Jack8 at Doyles) of Grove City, Ohio, for winning PAHU III, and to fitchjr1 as runner-up!

So I only played 3 tournaments on Satuday. Also cashed in ray101bassman's PLO H/L at PokerStars, finishing 3rd/12 for $2.40 (on a $1.10 entry). So I profitted $9.10 for the day ... if ya don't count the $25 stake I put up in PAHU III.

Bring on bigger and better results today, poker world. And be gentle, goddesses!