Some Internet Success

Well after weeks of futility and complaining I finally stopped the bleeding online with a win in a 90 player KO SNG. Not the big score I was looking for, but a win none the less. Players were just giving me their chips early on in the tournament. Some of the calls and plays were so obsurd, but I'll take it. This further reinstates my theory of niting it up early in this tournament. The play is just so bad you can wait for free chips. No need for deep thought and fancy plays on the donks. I played extremely well at the final table. Picked my spots well, and really controlled the action. The heads up match was tougher than it needed to be. My opponent was really holding the deck early on, and it wasn't looking good. Finally I had to take a stand and go with a read on a betting pattern. I made a nice play to induce a fold, and that really turned the tide as he started to laydown and wait for a hand.

I played very aggressively after the flop to get a 3 to 1 chip lead. I think he had, had enough and open shoved with a weak ace when I had 99 in the BB. He caught an ace and just like that we were even. This is all pretty standard here, but I frequently let players back into heads up matches in spots like this. An argument can be made to just keep chipping away. I got a decent chip lead again and he open shoved 90k and I had 180k. He seemed to be getting impatient. At least that was my read. Also he hadn't been open shoving his really strong hands. So I decided to call with A4. He had QJ and my hand held up. Later on I checked his stats online and he has an 11% rating. I can't believe it took me that long to beat this guy. LOL. Ohh well a win is a win.