Empty-handed once again

Once again I have nothing to show for my efforts in a qualifier for a land-based tourney. There were 167 players in the $270 Qualifier for the EWSOP on PartyPoker tonight. Top 8 finalists got a seat for Vienna. I played for 1 hour 47 minutes and came in 46th place. My final hand was AK vs. 33 all-in preflop. Board came low cards and I was out. That wasn't the hand that killed me, though. Just a few hands earlier I had a good-sized stack and was dealt A4 offsuit in my BB. It folded around to the SB, who mini-raised. I called and the flop came A J 4. In a nutshell, he had AJ and doubled up through me, crippling my stack immensely. When I think about it now it might have been smarter to fold the A4 to a mini-raise, but I did not want to give the table the image that I was a pushover. Oh well. From the looks of it I will be going down to Vienna anyways, but probably not for the Main Event anymore.

Luckily I had another killer day at Celebpoker playing cash games. I won a total of $754.72 playing 3 tables of 1/2NL and 1 table of 2/4NL over a total period of 3 hours.

Result for today: $754.72 - $270 = $484.72 profit