injured victory

Had an operation on my in-grown toenail this morning which was about as fun as it sounds. The doctor started by injecting a massive needle into both sides of the toe which hurt like hell and then once it was numb bassically hacked half the nail out. It was quite sick to actually watch it but he seemed to think that it went well; will find out for sure when i go back tommorrow to have the bandages removed. The doc said that the recovery time is about 4 weeks and to rest it as much as possible, he also said to try and wear flip flops which as most of you know will certainly not be a problem for me. I don't think working on my feet will help with the recovery time but am just gonna have to wait and see.
Between my last blog and tonight poker had been quite slow, a few minor cashes online but nothing serious. Once again went quite deep in the 500K gtd on stars and was in a massive pot for a top 5 chip position with 300 left. Wasn't to be though as i continue to run bad in the weekly major online comps. Think i may also be guilty of spending to much time looking at the lobby with the realisation that i have to beat 2000 + players having an adverse effect on my game.
Anyway given strict instuctions to rest i certainly wasn't going to being doing anything productive tonight so i fired up the laptop and decided to play 3 of my favourite nightly comps on party: $55 18K gtd FO, $33 10k gtd RB and the $109 20k gtd FO. Was playing these comps about 3 times a week last year but with a lot less time on my hands these days havn't been able to put in the hours.
Between 8pm-10.30pm the poker was on autopilot as i watched the mighty spurs take on PSV. Was very dissapointing to get knocked out on pens and over the two legs i think spurs were the slightly better side, think i'm more annoyed however with the shit rule that when u finish 3rd in your champions league group you get a place in the UEFA cup, it makes the competion a joke and should be scrapped. Great goal by Berbatov by the way, he is truely world class and hope we can keep hold of him for next season so i can stick £200 on us finishing in the top 4!
Anyway was unable to make the money in the $109 and $55 freezeouts. Played fine in both and just wasn't to be; things in the rebuy however (as the title of the blog suggests) went slightly better. I rebought right at the start to increase my stack to 6K and was pretty quiet for the first 50 mins until i managed to win a massive 3 way all in with JJ v 1010 v A7 for a 20K pot and when i took the add on had myself a very nice 25K stack having spent a total of $93 playing 150/300 blinds. For the next 2 hours thing went along very smoothly indeed, saw a lot of hands and was never all in myself whilst busting short stacks all over the place. At 200/400 donk shoves all in UTG for 10K! I insta call with KK v AQ and the donations kept coming.
By the time i decided to start saving hands there were only 15 left and i was 2nd in chips when this happened:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260479

This was a fucking dream spot for me, The only palyer who could double me up in the whole comp and it was very nice of him to do so (think i fold JJ in his spot).

Revenge is sweet:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260484

This hand was the first piece of bad luck for me in the whole comp and for some reason it tilted me for about 5 mins. I started slagging him in the chat for calling with the jacks and tbh i thought he seemed like a dangerous player so it was a shit time to take a shocker.

Great start to the final table:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260493

All in on the flop when he is dead, sick turn card but its no fun unless its a sweat lol. This got me back in the zone.

I just like to gamble sometimes:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260500

wooooooooooooooooops, well i could afford it and once i flopped the flush draw i was shocked that i missed!

sick:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260508

This hand is soooooooo sick! At the time i was pretty sure that when the guy flat called the raise he would lead the flop cause he seemed like a strong player. I call the flop hoping to hit obvioulsy for cheap or more likely bet when he checks the turn. When the scariest card in the deck hits the turn and he leads out i straight away thought bluff. 2 pair is a no no cause he wasn't calling raises out of position an i think a set would check flop like 90% of the time. Obviously even if he is massive i still have a fuck load of outs and i think i would normally shove here. I call with position just to see the river and hope that he wills hove into my made straight or flush. So when i miss and he shoves i guess i have to fold? NO WAY! 4th gets $900 and 1st gets £3.5K great bet by him considering stacks and the other two chip positions but i make what i believe to be a truely world class call. Looking back at the hand i think i should shove the turn but so happy i went with my gut and made a massive call that i'm so so proud of.

Bit of a wobble:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260518

Was quite a tight player but i don't see how i can pass, his play = terrible!

Get all the chips:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260525

Was 100% sure he had a 10 and a was shit river. lucky he is a shit player as well, awful river bet from him but making quads and geting paid is always cool.

Had a 6/1 chiplead Hu and soon finished it with K4 v J8 for his last 6 bb's. Took $3.5K for first which is very nice. Moving out of camberwell soon so had to cash $1800 just to pay for some shit and to make sure i stay well out of he overdraft. Have $5K in my party account now and am not planning to cash any out for a while so hope to build up in the next few months.
Just a quick note on my stt results, had a look on sharkscope.com using a free search and the results aren't accurate at all. They said i was up like $7K in total but had me down as having played 190 stt's when in reality i would say its more like 1000. From the 80 games i recorded i was up $1500 so they are defo a wortwhile investment i just don't enjoy them as much as mtt's so am only gonna play about 10 a week or so safe in the knowledge that i'm making money in the long run.
Anyway its now 4am and i have another appointment with the doc at 1.30pm so gonna get some rest. Think i'll play a few more comps online over the next few nights and might hit the gutshot on saturday for the £150, last time i played that got called for my whole 5K stack playing 400/800 by J2! i I only had K8 but still it was like 60% of his stack so i know there is plenty of value in that comp also like the structure.