I got out from behind the computer yesterday and played a live Deep Stacks tournament. The going was kind tough early but I already had it in my mind that I was going to play a lot of hands. That is exactly what I did. I lost about 1k in the first level but I continued to stay involved. There were a lot of hands I picked up small and middle pairs that did not hit on the flop. Finally I picked up [A][K} and took down a nice pot and from there things came together.

The entire day the largest pair I had was [T][T] but I also flopped a straight when I picked up [J][T] and limped on the button with three other players. That allowed me to pick up another big pot but I was steady winning small pots with timely bluffs against weak players. By the second break I was chip leader at my table after hitting an inside straight draw while holding [K][J] of diamonds and also having the nut flush draw. I busted a player holding Ace Queen when he hit two pair on the river for a huge pot. Once we got to the final two tables I busted out 16th. The funny thing is that this tournament wasn’t  really a deep stacks tournament in the true sense of the word. Why? Because once we got down to the final two tables everyone was short stacked due to the blind structure.