Better $20+2 results tonight

Worked diligently tonight on "playing perfect poker" and applying the guidelines I set out in the previous post on $20+2 SNG strategy. Results of this new diligence? Five tournaments played, 40% ITM with 45.45% ROI. Money finishes were a first and a second, non-money a fourth and two sixth. That leaves me at just over 36% ITM over the past two days and 24% ROI for the same two days.

Should have even converted the one more that I bubbled out in - I had been playing well but generally card-dead. I was short stack at the table with $520 and had just posted my $150 big blind and had been dealt the all-mighty offsuit hammer. Second smallest stack ($640) folds UTG. Chipleader ($4952) calls from the button. Small blind ($1888) completes. Flop rewards me with 2-2-T. SB checks, I bet the minimum $150 in to the $450 pot (fastplay is the new slowplay). Chipleader re-raises me all-in, and I insta-call. He turns over T-3 for two pair and I'm almost a 90% favorite to win with my trips. However he catches his three-outer (ignoring the longshot runner-runner threeve) on the turn when another ten drops, and his tens full beats my deuces full. Double-up there and I was almost certainly ITM sitting at 2x the small stack's chips. Still, solid results from a solid night of play.

In personal news, after selling off my cars (sale still pending on the M5, but i've got earnest money so I doubt he's backing out) I may have found my replacement car. Guy I know from one of the local car clubs has a ridiculously low mileage three-year-old Audi TT Coupe (7100 actual miles). The TT was already one of the cars on my list for acquisition, and I think i'm going to save the dough and go with this used example instead of buying the new one I had my eye on. As the previous owner of an almost-identical (except for color) TT Coupe I can enthusiastically say that this is one of my favorite all-time cars to drive, and I'm excited about the prospect of owning one again. I've got an appointment to see it in the morning, and if everything checks out I'll probably make an offer on the spot.

Blogroll update: added a St. Louis poker blogger and avid SNG'er: "Poker with WillWonka" to the blogroll. Per Performify Poker Page Published Policy, he finds a home right up near the top of the list where all those who shamelessly reciprocially link to Performify's Poker Page find refuge from the cruel dregs of the non-linking bastages...