Tournament Determination

                     Not a big Win but felt good 

Morning Cardmates, 

I entered a $1.88 MicroMadness[hyper] tournament on GGPoker last night.

I pre registered for this tournament, the blinds raise to fast in these tournaments for me to late reg.

I made a good start winning a couple hands and built up a decent stack and then chose not to get involved with many hands.

I played a couple, but tried to only get involved and take down small pots to keep my position and stack where it was!

I find at these stages the challenge is not to be taking down monster pots, but to stay steady to make the ITM.

I managed to make the ITM and in a reasonable mid table position, soo was happy with my progress in the tournament so far.

Eventually I did get involved in a couple of wrong decisions and bad calls and was short stacked.

I sort of get a feeling when I know my time is up in a tournament, do you?

The next thing I analyse in this position………

Can I make it to the next pay jump?

So in this situation I am folding hands, taking my time and running down the clock.

I am getting close to the next pay jump and I’m on the button with A♥️2♦️

Now this is a hand generally I would avoid, but the cutoff just raises and I thought……..

” Your only doing that to bully me because I’m short stacked!”

l thought he had nothing so I called.

The flop came 9♠️ K♠️ 9♣️ he acted in haste and put me AI which told me he had hit nothing and I went all in with ace hi 🤯

A♣️ 8♣️was the turn and river, and my instinct was right he had nothing 

I doubled up!

Next hand was A♥️ J♥️ and I went all in straight away, I thought just take the blinds and I will be in good position to make the pay jump and I did no one called 

I should have just called because I would have flopped the nut flush!

But it did help me to make the next pay jump and those decisions that I made got me there!

Just a little insight to my game Cardmates!

I won’t make the Forbes rich list with it, but……….

I’m happy with it ♥️♠️♦️♣️