90 cents

This is my overall net profit at Titan right now... Given that it was -$38.10 before I made my latest attempt at a $10 SNG, I cannot complain about this!

That's right, at long last I managed to not only make the money, but actually win a $10 SNG at Titan. After all the trouble I had in recent days, this game was surprisingly easy. I got a few good hands early on and actually managed to make the most of them.

The best one was the following. I raise with KQ preflop (I think I was UTG), one caller. I miss the flop which is Jxx and make a continuation bet. He calls again and I curse my luck until a queen hits the turn. I feel that I must be ahead here (not to mention the fact that I am quite upset at his nerve of calling my bluff) and go all-in. After some thought, he calls... he had Q8!! Don't ask me what he was thinking when he called preflop and on the flop - or on the turn, for that matter.

I had some difficulty winning the heads-up phase, after my opponent hit an unlikely runner-runner flush to take the lead from me (I was 2:1 up, so after that 2:1 down). However, ten hands later or so, he refuses to believe that I hit top pair and calls my all-in bet. This leaves him with only 2000 chips (I had already crept up on him a bit) and then the rest was a formality. Although the end was interesting: preflop he raised to 2BB = 600, leaving only 1400 in his stack, but then he refused to call my reraise! Then on the next hand, I just put him all-in with 96 or so, and the flop came T96 ;-)

Just before this, I also managed to win a $10 SNG at Pacific, where I had fled because of my continuing bad results. These two successive wins have wiped out the losses that I made this week playing double stack games. At the moment, my profit this month stands at $63. I am just happy to be back in the black for the month...