Another Tuesday, another post...

Lets see how far this trend will go. The truth is I had not much going on this week.

Pokerwise, I played 4 mtts on Friday with total cost of $99. I was in for 50% as the rest 50% was sold in shares through www.chipmeup.pokernews.com, where I use the nickname mifili64. I had a deep run in the $55 buy-in, 64th out of 1773 for $141. Another close finish and makes me feel that I am near a big score, which I will achieve if I put some decent volume in tournaments. That's why I offer my shares at cost, unlike many who overvalue themselves while lacking the stats for this, I want to play more & bigger buy-in tournies. On Saturday I lost $135 playing $0,25-$0,50 cash games on full tilt and shortly after I tried a 6max table. In contrast to 9 handed, the 6 max cash table featured fast, loose play and bigger pots. I played one short session on Sunday as well and I decided to give up 9 handed and focus solely on 6 max cash. On Monday I played only 102 hands and finished the day with $137 profit, more than I had lost. It took me 62 hands to realise that I was sitting on a pot limit instead of no limit table, despite of the different slider, doubling up on my very first hand and busting a medium stack in the process.

I also played in a chess tournament (live) on Saturday. It was a 5 round rapid with 25 minutes for every player. On my first real game after 15 months, I played imaginatively, sacrificing a rook to launch a winning attack. The bad news is that my attack was leading nowhere as I missed a saving defensive move by my oppo. I soon had to sacrifice a piece to maintain some threats. I won back the piece but still, I was a whole rook down when my oppo failed to spot my mating combination in one move! On the second game I was outplayed by current champion, Fide Master Alkis Martides and blundered in time trouble. 3rd game I agreed to a draw in an inferior position. 4th game I drew again, this time against the father of my previous oppo. I was a pawn up and had more seconds in my clock, but failed to spot the winning plan due to time pressure and other distructions and offered the draw myself. I used to dislike this family when I played chess religiously but on Saturday I felt good to see them, talk to them, play with them. I was also less result orientated than back then and played just for fun, which was really enjoyable. With this mentality, I took my round 5 demise against second champion, after a HUGE blunder in just a few moves, very lighlty. Overall, a 2/5 score is not that tragic, my goal was 2,5 points, I was close...

I started adding some links on this site, I will seperate them by subject, enjoy.

Until next time, I gogogo!!!