Eric Rizen Lynch

Sunday tournaments, $1k prop bets, and more

Well, my overall Sunday results weren't as good as I would have liked. Let's start with the tournaments first. I cashed in 3 tournaments yesterday (I think I played about 12 total). Which really is a pretty good rate, but in all the tournaments I cashed in I didn't go very deep, so I won about twice my buy in in the 3 cashes, which didn't make up for the losses from the other tournaments. I'm fine with this, MTT is usually periods of trying to tread water between your big final table scores.

I did make 1 final table this week in the Empire Happy Hour, but that was it. Other than that I had about 10 cashes and was in the red for the week in MTT play. With some of the smaller field tournaments I play (nightly UB $100 and Empire Happy Hour) I can usually make at least 1 final table a week, and while variance is a pain, I'm a little disappointed if I don't get at least 1.

On to the prop bet. I don't normally like these sorts of bets. As I've put on my blog earlier, I typically frown on any type of side bet that may impact my ability to make the best decisions possible over the course of a tournament. That being said, the prop bet on Pocket Fives really has a structure that plays to my strengths a lot. Here is a link to the thread outlining the prop bet.

Anyways, to make a long story short, out of the 16 entrants at $1k a piece I took 2nd in the prop bet, which was good for a little under $5k (so $4k profit). JJProdigy ended up running away with the whole thing after an awesome performance in the Paradise 100k. He is a great player and deserved the win, although I could have passed him had I been able to go deeper into the UB 150k at the end of the night than he did.

All in all between cash games and the prop bet I finished the week close to $3k in the black, which is never a bad thing. I feel like I've made some good adjustments to my game towards the end of last week too, so hopefully this week will be just as good, if not better.

-Rizen