I played A LOT of poker this weekend. More, in fact, than I have probably played in the past month combined. To give you an indication of how much "lots" is, the picture to the right shows the amount of Full Tilt Poker Iron Man Challenge Points I collected in two days. Yes, I am happy to report that I am well on my way to Iron status for January.

The weekend began with an $8 token SNG on Full Tilt which I won, then progressed on to a Tier Two ($26 token entry) which I also placed in. I took that $75 token and played a Tier Three. Now, every time I mention a Tier Three people ask me what it is - so if you aren't in the know listen up. A Tier Three is a 9-player SNG which you buy into for $75 cash or a $75 token. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places pay cash, first place winning $310. Needless to say I won first place in mine (all this with only an $8 investment), so the weekend was off to a great start.

I then moved on to a $1/$2 NL table with a few bloggers, which we ended up taking over for the entire night. I left the table 9 hours later with 3.5x the max buy-in (you do the math). At one point I was actually up almost 5x, but I lost a significant pot (to a non-blogger) when my flopped set of fives lost to a set of aces that my opponent caught on the turn. C'est la vie though, I am certainly not complaining.

Today I played in three large tournaments - the 400k Guaranteed (which I will be writing about in a subsequent post), the $35k Guaranteed, and the $12k Guaranteed, all on Full Tilt of course. I basically bubbled in the 12k - was out in 111th place and the top 72 paid. My money was in with the best of it, but my opponent (who drastically out-chipped me) caught one of their two overcards on the turn.

I did cash in the $35k however. My all-in raise with KK was called by two people - one holding QQ and the other 55. QQ caught another Q on the flop and I was out in was out in 156th place. Since the top 306 places paid, I was still pretty happy with the results.

In between (and during) all this I also played three $30 SNG's (two I didn't place in but the third I won) and I earned another $26 token from a turbo peep. I am exhausted just writing all that out.

Since I am working on earning Iron status in January, I am sure that I'll be keeping up the same momentum throughout the week, hopefully with similar results. Stay tuned for more soon.