Back to my Roots

Poker over the last month has been sparse at best. I am going through a lot of changes in my life which has kept me away from the virtual tables quite a lot. The biggest change is that I am moving quite soon, most likely into Toronto. I have lived on the fringes of Toronto for most of my life but never lived within the city limits and quite frankly, I never wanted to. What has changed now, you ask? Well, I am not quite sure but now I feel like it is time to give city livin' a try. Since my company contracted me out a month ago to a company quite close to Toronto I figured now was the best time to try.

I went back to my roots last night in between packing up my junk and fired up a single table SNG on Stars. The very first hand I am dealt is kings in the BB. UTG+1 raises it to 60 and two people call before it gets to me so I make it 220 to go. UTG+1 re-raises to 440 and one other guy calls and the other folds. The only hand I am worried about here is AA, right but I just can't lay this hand down can I? I don't think I can get away from my kings here but I would prefer to only be facing on opponent and not give two guys the opportunity to draw out on me. I push all-in and UTG+1 insta calls! Crap! He must have aces, right? The other guys takes a little while and folds and the hands are exposed and UTG+1 has JJ! The board fails to bring a J or anything else that would help him and I more than double on the first hand. I play a few more small pots for the next few levels, but generally try to stay out of trouble. When the blinds go to 50-100 I start to steal a little. I donked off a lot of chips on some questionable draws that didn't hit and made some stupid plays with medium pairs. If there is a zone, I wasn't in it. I ended up pushing with 33 with an M of about 6 and the 1 seat took forever to call with his KK. Why the wait there buddy? The boards does not help and I am out in 5th. Not my best day of poker.

Jopke