New Month New Beginning

Poker does ultimately come down to your results. My results for April make pretty grim reading:

6 Tournaments played. £295 entry fees. Winnings £0

Really not good.

3 hand implosion - Hero to Zero

I could probably elaborate a little more, but I think Tonights tournament bust out can be summarised fairly succinctly:
Played solid for 4hrs, steadily built my stack.
Ran AK into kings and didn,t improve. Crippled.
next hand I did a nice preflop raise - c bet - fold move with pocket 3,s.
Next hand I repopped a raiser for my last 12bb with pocket 6,s, he flips over AK and a king hits the flop.

Thats pretty much it. Onto the next..

Sent to the rail by 5 3 offsuit.

40 players made it through to Day 2 in total. I was about 36th in chips so it was always going to be a bit of a struggle, it started off brightly enough, I got a few chips early on to give me a bit of time, but the blinds and ante,s starting catching up, I was at under 10BB when I shipped a low pocket pair on the button and got it through to get up to about 20k.
Next hand I picked up A 10h, I raised to 8,000 with blinds at 2000,1000,200, only the big blind calls. Flop comes down J 6 3. BB checks, I shove, he calls and shows 5 3 off for bottom pair 5 kicker, no redemption on turn or river and I,m ash. Hmmm.
27th place from 120 odd. Not quite how I,d planned it.

Simon Appleby took down about £10k for first place.