Reed's Great Sunday Run...

I hadn't really played any poker in about 7-8 days. I was anxious to get back to the grind. I played Saturday night and laid an egg cashing in 0 of 9 MTT's played. Mostly to some bad beats, but that's part of it.

Sunday was a different story. After spending most of the day on the lake with Colby and friends (Lisa's still recovering from back surgery) for Father's Day, we headed home for dinner. I knew I was going to get to play the 7pm MTT's so the night started then. I played 11 MTT's last night and had a remarkable 5 cashes. Four of the five were final tables too. First, I FT'd the $20 rebuy on FTP. It was a 6-max tourney only having 6 people at the FT. I came in 4/6 in chips and after a few hands got 66. I call a small raise and flop a set. I check and the raiser bets, so I go all-in and he calls w/ suited rags for a flush draw. He hits and I finish 6th.

Next up was AP's $75k gtd. final table. First place paid $18,500 and I came into FT 6/9 in chips. The chip leader was a maniac and I had chipped up from him a couple of times. The short stack busts to the donkey chip leader's rags and we're down to 8 players. I get AQ in late position and there's a early raiser, the chip leader re-raises and I figure I am way ahead of him. I decide to go all-in and the chip leader instacalls me with 10-4off. Of course, he hits one his napkins and I am out to the donk. By this time, I am tilted some, but still in a couple of other mtt's.

I bust out of one and I am left short stacked in both of FTP's Big Daily Doubles ($75 buy-ins). If you recall I doubled final tabled these back in January for a $10k+ score. Well, I play a good short stack and eventually chip up to top 10 stack with about 15 to go in each of them. Play continues and in "A" I double up twice in a row to get a top 4 stack and cruise to the FT easily. I end up making the FT in "B" barely going into FT 8/9 in chips. A couple of players go bust in "B" and I end up moving up in the money before I shove in the BB to the CL and go bust for 7th place. I make some moves and end CL with 4 left in "A", but we played for a long time 4-handed and chips came and went. I finally trapped one of the other players with my straight and get a nice chip lead. Eventually, I get HU w/ a girl and she's been pretty loose aggressive not wanting to fold her hands. We play about 5 hands with nothing really happening. I get 6d8d and call her min. raise. The flop comes 97A with two diamonds. I bet out, she raises, then I call. I insta-shove after the turn diamond. She calls w/ KK and I take this tourney down.

The crazy thing is that 3 people made both final tables, so we split the double final table bonus. and one of the finished 2nd and 4th, so he got the best double finish bonus. Pretty sick!

Here's the final totals:

FTP $20r- 6th place for $444.00
AP $75k gtd.- 8th place for $1,950.00
FTP Big DDA- 1st place for $3,078.00
FTP Big DDB- 7th place for $425.00
Bonuses for Double FT- $900.00

Almost $7k in cashes...Happy Father's Day!!