Job Interview

I had some good news yesterday, I got a phone call asking me to go for an interview for a job I applied for last week. I was very hopeful at getting the interview because it is a job I have 20 odd years experience in doing so I now have to impress and hope for a bit of luck. After being unemployed for just over a year it's about time something went right.

My little sit n go challenge moved on slowly yesterday. Played 3 x sit n go and 1 x freeroll. Managed to win 1 sit n go, but it's hard work the first important lesson I am learning in $0.10 sng's is patience, I have been seriously card dead over the 2 days I have played so far which is not good. Players seem to play any 2 cards if they pair any one they will take it to a showdown. So bad beats a common as they get improbable trips, straights, flushes and full houses on the river. It's a case of playing good solid ABC poker being very cautious with anything but the nuts. Prime example was raising 5x BB with AQ on the Button and getting called by the BB. I hit an Ace on the flop and continuation bet 3/4 of the pot which he called. I started to think he may have trips so I checked and he checked. So re-thinking that he may be chasing a flush I made a half pot bet when the river didn't complete the flush which he called again. He then turns over 56 the 5 had paired on the flop and the 6 paired on the river they were suited and the type of player he was I think he would have called even if I went all in pre flop.

The freeroll was a $300 Cash Crazy Freeroll, with 1000 players and top 20 paying. As I said above I have been card dead so the first hour was hard, but after the first break I got a couple of decent hands and built a big enough stack to make it to the second break. After the second break I got lucky the big stack next to me was an "interesting" player and he and I had about 4 hands in a row where I got cards and he decided he wanted to play me with nothing. He helped increase my stack from 4000 to 30,000 which was very kind. At this point I should have been cruising into the money no problem, until I got KJ on the BB and the player on the button put in a big raise, the little devil voice in my head start shouting "he's stealing" so I re-raised and he went all in. I had to fold and he showed AK so I made the right choice to fold but I had blown over half my stack. 2 hands later I got AK went all in and was called by 66 I didn't get any help and was out. So I went from a certain cash to out in 43rd only 23 places from the money. So as I said near the start I need to learn patience.