More confidence, but minimal results.

Enjoying the 6.50 turbos, playing much better around the bubble too, and for the first time I feel confortable with the stakes I'm playing.

Managed to get to the final table of another 180 man tournament, but finished ninth after firstly flopping TP and a bloke calling to the river with the nut flush draw (fair enough I suppose), arsing me over for the majority of my stack. And then I muled off my chips after the Cut- off MIN RAISED and then I reraised all in with QJs (what was I thinking) for not very much more. Needless to say he shows the Nut pair :D

On a better note thought I felt my reads were improving a hell of a lot, and thus I was able to take advantage of people who were continuation betting on low flops and me raising hard with fuck all. There was one bloke in particular whose blinds I kept stealing and towards whom I was generally being a cunt. So we developped a bit of a rivalry... he caught me out a few times but although this next bluff may seem standard to better players, It was a difficult one seeing as from the word go he suspected. I put him on AJ-AK/KQ, there or there abouts, so the river was a bit stupid, but hey, it worked.

PokerStars Game #18043457700: Tournament #91555353, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2008/06/10 - 11:37:27 (ET)Table '91555353 2' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Daddy74 (11307 in chips)
Seat 2: juzmuckem (15416 in chips)
Seat 3: alpha8886 (11560 in chips)
Seat 4: MightyMoaten (18693 in chips)
Seat 5: Praseodyme (9867 in chips)
Seat 7: gltooouuuu (6655 in chips)
Seat 8: TonyP22 (12016 in chips)
Seat 9: khemis (6925 in chips)

HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TonyP22 [Qc 9c]
khemis: folds
Daddy74: folds
juzmuckem: raises 300 to 600
alpha8886: folds
MightyMoaten: folds
Praseodyme: folds
gltooouuuu: folds
TonyP22: calls 300

*** FLOP *** [3c 8h 2d]
TonyP22: bets 900
juzmuckem: calls 900

*** TURN *** [3c 8h 2d] [7h]
TonyP22: bets 1800
juzmuckem: calls 1800

*** RIVER *** [3c 8h 2d 7h] [Jc]

TonyP22: bets 3300
juzmuckem: folds

Uncalled bet (3300) returned to TonyP22
TonyP22 collected 6950 from pot
TonyP22: doesn't show hand

*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6950 Rake 0 Board [3c 8h 2d 7h Jc]
Seat 1: Daddy74 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: juzmuckem folded on the River
Seat 3: alpha8886 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: MightyMoaten folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Praseodyme (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: gltooouuuu (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: TonyP22 (big blind) collected (6950)
Seat 9: khemis folded before Flop (didn't bet)