Up and Down

Played a sng, mtt, and some cash today. The cash managed to pay for the rest of the day with these 2 hands that happened back to back.

I had 50 dollars, good for 500 big blinds on the table. I meant to take a screenshot but as i was writing this i flopped top boat with 88 vs 33 on a 833 board. We get it in on the turn 8339 he has k9. River is 9. Well, there goes the profit.

I think i might play the early double in a hour or so. We will see.

EDIT: Im bad at bankroll management. Just decided that a 15 dollar superturbo would be a good idea. Too bad i didnt win a 60/60. Now to grind back up to 400.

Hope everyone had a good 4th

Little Heater

Not to be results oriented but rolls at 360.

:)

(after shipping 31 to some friends)

Started off with some more cash. Abused this one villain who i have some history with. Made some potentially spewy/awful plays but he showed a propensity for floating and folding later streets and 3/4betting real light (4 bet qj otb) So idk. They worked out this time. I was gonna go over the hands but im out of time right now. Maybe i will next time i get a chance.

Oh, also came in 2nd in a superturbo. Forgot what it felt like to win 1/2 of my races and 2/3 of my 60/40s. Feels mad good. Made a really bad call hu i had 9k and q9ss he jammed 3k in and i thought he was pretty wide so i called, he had qj. next hand he jams in 6k and i call with k3. He had just jammed qj and i really thought he was jamming wide. he woke up with k7.

I thin the second hand is very defensible but the first one.....i had a 3 to 1 lead. I think i could have let it go and waited for a better spot.

Nevertheless im out

Good luck/happy 4th

Cash can still be juicy

So im kinda of pissed at mtts right now. Decided to mess around with LHE yesterday, didnt really work out so i went back to a game i had been playing a little while back, 10nl deep.

Mind you, im at work and my boss just came down and interrupted my seshion so i had to quit after 30 hands but ill be back on and off today. Theres just one hand i want to share. I spose it looks like a standard cooler but to me, any sign of money entering my account instead of leaving it right now is beautiful.

One other thing....At eff stacks of 170bbs i really dont know how standard this hand actually is. Im thinking i might have played it kinda poorly by jamming the turn. The only history i had w/ villain is that he pot bet flop adn turn w/ top pair and was pretty passive w/o a good hand. Now, KK obv is better than top pair here but he was playing so aggressive i def thought he could have had a set. On second thought, although he could have a set due to the cold call preflop i doubt a set would want to c/r->lead when im clearly showing interest. That seems like a line designed to get me to fold.

Now, i dont know if im ever getting away from kings here, i might just be over analyzing this hand but...170bbs deep its scary to play one pair for stacks. Especially when villain is showing so much agression. If anyone has any thoughts about this hand please share them in the comments. Id really appreciate it.

30 hands at 585 bb/100. Hehe, ridiculously inflated but ill take it!

Nothing is certain

I ended up playing 4mtts tonight, the aforementioned tournaments and the Early double. In EDB i got bounced early when i 4bet jacks, ran into AQ and couldnt win the race. In EDA i was grinding my shortstack for the entire tourny and eventually built myself a stack of chips. It wasnt meant to be. I lost a third of my stack 3betting AK and folding to the jam when i wiffed the flop. Then i lost the rest of my stack 3betting 88 and losign to KQ about 30 spots off the money (1200 runners)

Well, what i want to talk about right now is the fact that poker is a very interesting game. In a tournament where i started out with 14k good for 1st of 400 i thought that a cash was a near certainty. Im not really disappointed with my play, i think i navigated the tournament all right. My failing to cash just goes to show that nothing is certain. I have in the past thought that i would never be able to blow a big chiplead in an mtt and obviously i was wrong about that. It can be done.

One interesting thing that i have noticed is that all of my big scores (300+) have com when i entered the cash portion of the tourny in medium or bad shape. I have never approached the bubble of a big tourny with a really big stack as far as i remember.

The EDA is a perfect example of this, had my 8s held i probably would have cashed in about 140/200. That is what usually happens in my big scores, i weasel my way into the cash and then get something together and make a run.

Im not really sure if this is a coincidence or if its meaningful but it is interesting.

Well, ive updated this blog so many times today i doubt i will again. Forutnately i dont feel bad about poker today, im not disappointed, im not tilting i kinda want to play more. Im definately not in the mood to play an mtt right now though, thats for sure.

Maybe ill give some cash a shot.

BTW, make sure you catch some of the HORSE final table tonight, it should be fun

A new kind of dissapointing

I finished 85th/580. Busted on the last hand before the 3rd break when i shoved the button and ran into A10 and couldn't catch up. After such an explosive start to this tournament it is def dissapointing to finish 30 spots away from the money. For the past couple hours i have been very card dead and have run into a couple tough spots with marginal hands (the two snowmen hands). As far as overall dissapointment goes i think id rather endure this fate than finish 10th again. This was bad in the sense that there was soo much hope and promise that comes with having a giant stack early in one of these but Im not too disappointed with my play and carddeadness happens.

now i have 5 min to deciede whether or not to play the ED

Fighting

Gotta love the limp call w/ q9s

Jut doubled with 77.

This is not the way i wanted this tourny to go. Going to have to fight now and try to get my stack back

2nd hour

Well this hour didnt go quite as well as the first one lol.

I wasnt really able to play too agressive like i wanted becuase there were a couple maniacs with rather large stacks that i ddint want to go to war with. Here are the two big hands i played.

i think i played this hand well. I could have raised pre but with so many limpers i think limping along is fine. i checked the turn for pot control but that does set me up to get bluffed on the river. I was prepared to call a small bet but i didnt want to call the jam. Id really like some feedback on this hand.

This hand was standard. Anyways, im down to 11k whihc is good for 56/210 and 3k above average. I still have 50 bbs and a great stack for this stage of the tourny. I am going to take it easy i think and tighten up. Im going to try to grab a premium hand and get paid off. Hopefully it will go well.