DUBLIN BELLYBUSTERS

This is quickly becoming one of my best months to date. I have broken into the Top 300 of the OPR Form Listings and am ranked in the top 0.05% for the year 2008. With the help of some of my fellow online professionals, I feel I have definitely plugged some of the leaks in my game. My MTT game has developed new gears (particularly my late-game after the bubble has burst) as I have come to better understand how ridiculously aggressive you must become in order to go really deep on a consistent basis. Squeeze plays have become a big part of my arsenal and I now feel I am pro-actively seeking out opportunities to turn up the heat. This approach certainly means I will donk a few tournies with what will appear to be questionable plays (See Clip Below!). However, I am confident that, in the long run, it is the way to go if I am to hit a few big cashes.

From now on and with that in mind, I shall, whenever possible, record for posterity the occasions when I really donk it. The first of these occasions occurred on Sunday last. Having battled through a rebuy field of over 1000 players, I made it to the final table. I should have gone there with a massive chiplead but for a nasty bad-beat in a one million chip pot. Nonetheless, I still had the chips to take it down. It was, however, not to be as the maniacal voice on my right shoulder whispered a little something in my ear at a crucial moment, convincing me to make an audacious squeeze play with 5 players remaining...

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