A Taste of Tournament Cake
With an increased bankroll, I feel a little more comfortable with expanding my play a bit more. Today I focused solely on Cake Poker and found the tournament button for the first time during the challenge. I started off playing a $3.30 6 man sit-n-go. Top 2 places get paid. The tourny was going pretty good and I was sitting in 3rd place with 4 players remaining. And then the Kowboy’s rolled into town to back me up so I shot out a pot size raise and then ….. here comes a re-raise all-in by the chip leader and then another caller goes all in. Hmmm.. with no hesitation I called. Flop come QJ8 rainbow. Looking good for me 
. Now the turn, it’s a King !! After my initial ecstatic cheer, I remembered the flop cards. Crap! The chip leader had an A10. Well my hand didn’t improve on the river and I was out empty handed.
Not to be detoured, I found another sit-n-go format that I hadn’t tried before. It’s a 10 player sit-n-go but each of the top 5 players get paid double the tourny buy-in minus the entrance fee. So once the 6th player is ousted the tourny stops and everyone left standing gets paid.
To start, I tried a $2 version of the double up game. A few bad moves and I ended in 8th. Well not the best start but I was still intrigued. I tried another $2 and this time I made it to the end. $2.20 in, $4 out. I think I got this one figured out now. Solid steady play is the key and the risk reward has a good balance for the challenge. I decided that I would have 1 more go at it. This time I chose the $5 version and once again I made the top 5. I think I have found my new game.
During my tournament play, I also had a couple $0.10/$0.20 10 man cash games running. I took a bit hit on my aces and lost $15 on the hand but I was able to battle back and after 200 hands I was back into the positives.
On the challenge front, I am now oh so close to the first level in my challenge of $10 to $100. This is of course just on the Cake Poker site. For a quick summary of my overall winnings from all sites, there is now a Stats section in the sidebar which shows best sessions, worst sessions and monthly earnings.