This, once again, is long over due. I have not been playing as much poker lately. I have gone back to college and this is my last leg and it is some of the hardest classes. I finish up in May 2010, so I am really looking forward to that and concentrating again on poker.
In the meantime, I play when I can. It is mostly small private forum events with small buyins.
A couple weeks ago HoldemPokerChat forum had one of their famous poker marathons. They usually hold them 2 or 3 times a year. Well, they held the weekend of Sept 19th. There was a wide arrange of games, both buy-ins and freerolls and at numerous poker sites.
I am happy to report that I managed to stay up all night and participated in 23 out of 24 games. Now I would have played in 24, but something got screwed up in one of the last buy-ins. I pre-registered for all the buy-ins ahead of time, but somehow one was missed or something got messed up and I missed it. This caused me to lose my Ironwoman title for playing all 24 games. Booooo
The marathon started off great for me. I had several final tables and had some great finishes, but no first places. This allowed me to get in the top 3 overall right off the bat. The challenge from there on out was hanging on. At one point I was in first, then dropped down to 5th. I was able to do well enough to stay in the top 5 continuously. When it got down toward the end of the marathon it was a VERY tight race between several players in the top 5. I managed to get back up to 2nd place and it was a toss up toward the end whether I was going to be able to hold onto that 2nd place or settle for 3rd. By that Sun morning, it was evident that catching 1st place was impossible because he was so far ahead in points. No one was going to catch him, including me who was sitting in 2nd.
I managed to finish up overall in 2nd place and earned $100.
To play in all the games it cost me approximately $110
Between all the tournaments I won about $190
Overall, I cleared about $180.
It was a lot of fun. It got the most difficult around 5:00am and later. Good thing there were people in the Chat room on HPC and myboyfriend was also playing.
I am looking forward to the next marathon in November. Be sure to check it out on HoldemPokerChat forum. They will be annoucing it very soon.
