Almost made it

For the longest time I have been sitting on my freeroll entry into Party Poker's Mini Step 4, since my game had taken a turn for the worst I decided I was going to wait until I felt, I was back playing stable again. Well after another night of losing, I decided what the hell I might as well take my free roll, if I get in the top 2 at this table then I move on to mini step 5 where the grand prize is $2000.00 and the top 5 places pay out at that table which would mean easy cash in the long run.

I had hit rock bottom in my game, and for some reason I have an ability to rise to the occasion when it really counts, I can lose $5.00 sit and go tournaments all day long and not care much, but when the big money is on the line or it's an important satellite I rise to the occasion. My strategy for these mini step tournaments is almost foolproof, the first thing you should do is go on party poker's website and look at how the placing works. At this particular table, the top 2 received an entry into the next level places 2 - 5 got a entry into the same level, I didn't care much after that I always aim to get in the top 5 then I open my game up. The reason being dropping down to mini-step 3 would suck, but dropping all the way back down to mini-step 1 would suck even worse. It's like climbing up 1000 stairs one at a time, and then almost getting to the top and falling down, I played some tough games to get this far and I am not about to blow it now.

So, I let all the knuckle heads go out early and I started playing when there were 7 people left taking advantage of my tight playing early I stole some pots by betting big because no one had any clue how I played, and none of them could put me on anything especially since I didn't raise before the flop on a lot of them. As always it turned into a grind out match when there were 6 people left because no one wanted to be the guy busted down a level, I had a healthy chip stack so I knew it wasn't going to be me.

It was down to 4 people and I was the lowest and 15 minutes later I was chip leader with 3 people left. One hand that I might have misplayed is I was dealt Q 10 diamonds the dealer button folded I was small blind I limped in with another 250, the big blind then goes all in over top of me, which kind of gets on my nerves all these people want to make it coin flip city when it gets late in the game, instead of seeing a flop and playing poker like it was meant to be played. Playing coin flips leaves it up to luck and not skill or strategy, so I folded the hand but I was sure that the guy didn't have anything it was a 50 50 hand either way. Then I was deal A Q of spades and one of the guys went all in I called he had jacks and I got nothing, and he doubled up and I was then the short stack at the table. Ultimately I went all in and got called by a horrible hand and the "LUCK" of internet poker let the dufus catch running 3's to beat me. Oh well I guess I will try again, but I know I was the best player at that table it just wasn't my day to win.