Pretty big sunday imo today...mem day weekend tons of fish out..should be a good one. Havent ran good on a sunday since early aprilish so hopefully today will be good. Right now im registered for about 30 tournaments on FTP and PS combined and will be adding some more later, so hopefully i can get around 40 or so in today and be up on the day. hopefully start by binking something early.
already started the day off with some connection problems but thank god only 3 tournaments are running...better to start the day off like that and hopefully it wont come back when i have 39802 tables open.
heres to a good sunday, good luck to all the grinders. and please for the love of anything holy let me run gooooooot.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
frustration sets in...
this weekend was absolutely horrendous. I played pretty hard friday-sunday when I could and just couldnt get anything started. I had sicko stacks in a bunch but just nothing could materialize again. There is nothing more frustrating than sitting with 100bbs in multiple tournaments and then come out and min cash 1 of them....3 days in a row. That was grind session this weekend. I feel I played pretty well in MOST of them but there could still be some leaks and laydowns that need to happen. Besides that its just running better. I'm not going to continue to write about how i got beat by this and blah blah blah, its negative...and we dont need that. Instead from here on out we are going to stay positive. A positive mind is essential to playing good, solid poker and if you dont have it then it's going to cause you to spew chips or 'tilt'. I remember back from my SNG days the amount of beats I would take...and it would seem like they were rapid fire, one after the other. then a few sessions later it was like I couldnt lose a single pot no matter how bad/good I got it in. This is how cards go and you cant forget that...if you have any negative thoughts or negative feelings during your play because you took a bad beat this is going to fuck youre play up. Those other 7 tournaments you have are going to become spewfests because your head isnt in the game, youre thinking about what could have been instead of whats right now...7 tournaments....nice stacks....still alive. Why would do you multitable? for me i multitable because I want to give myself the best chance at winning as many tournaments as i can, and i want to have the best shot at that..and since volume is the key(besides know wtf you are doing) thats why we mulitable. just because 1 is gone doesnt mean you should fuck the rest up because you got 2 outted...get over it and move on. Keep your head clear about each hand going on and not what just happened.
Recently Ive been trying to review and tweak my game, I've been watching the shit out of pokerxfactor videos and trying to pick up on some things I'm doing wrong or just not doing at all that will give me an edge over the competition. It seems to be working better but I think I need to go further. This week I'm going to try to pick apart a few MTT hand histories of mine and check spots where I'm reshoving into monsters or just shipping light in general. While it may feel like the 'right' move, I dont really know until I run some numbers and check it out. I hate being results oriented but it just seems like I'm picking terrible spots and just running into monsters. I was browing one of the forums today and found a really great quote from a well respected, sick ass grinder ...i seriously think he played 5000 mtts/day for a few years straight. So I'll end this long rambled, probably doesnt make much sense post on words to remember from one of the best online grinders around....
"If you're not getting it in bad you're not getting it in enough" -ShaunDeeb
(i'll leave a good song for those 3 followers to listen to)
Recently Ive been trying to review and tweak my game, I've been watching the shit out of pokerxfactor videos and trying to pick up on some things I'm doing wrong or just not doing at all that will give me an edge over the competition. It seems to be working better but I think I need to go further. This week I'm going to try to pick apart a few MTT hand histories of mine and check spots where I'm reshoving into monsters or just shipping light in general. While it may feel like the 'right' move, I dont really know until I run some numbers and check it out. I hate being results oriented but it just seems like I'm picking terrible spots and just running into monsters. I was browing one of the forums today and found a really great quote from a well respected, sick ass grinder ...i seriously think he played 5000 mtts/day for a few years straight. So I'll end this long rambled, probably doesnt make much sense post on words to remember from one of the best online grinders around....
"If you're not getting it in bad you're not getting it in enough" -ShaunDeeb
(i'll leave a good song for those 3 followers to listen to)
Thursday, May 20, 2010
few updates (long)
I slacked on getting this updated after the competition sunday, mainly because of the disappointment that was the weekend. I'm not blaming it totally on this but it was some cause, I'm knee fucking deep in 12 tournaments in the middle of my session on Saturday and BOOM, the power goes out. Now I'm sitting in the money in the $22 4k gtd (2k for first) with a pretty healthy stack, sitting probably in the top 10ish in chips. I also have the $216 miniFTOPS 2-day event going on and a shit load of other tournaments that either just started or where in the middle stages of play. I had been playing pretty solid and got tilted as fuckkkkk when this happened. So I gave it 10 mins before calling franchizzle and heading to his house to play on his computer. I was honestly about ready to pack up my computer and monitors and just set up at his place for the night because the 2-day event wouldnt end until about 1030pm and I planned on getting to day 2. Anyways, I get over there and logon and I'm pretty much crippled in the 6-max tournament and busted out 19th. I had rapid fire bust outs in a few others and I'm down to about 7 or 8 games. I honestly cant remember most of the tournaments I was in but it ended up getting down to the 2-day event.
My stack didnt do shit for a good 4-5 hours if not more but the structure is so sick in that thing at no point was I in push/fold mode. I played pretty solid poker and was really pumped about my post flop play(something i've been trying to work on). We ended up getting into the money with about 2 hours to go until the 1st day went on break. Around the 45 mins left mark I had a pretty sick stack at about 50BBs after winning a pretty big flop all in pre for another guy.
the hand :
i had all the players marked and pretty much was at the same table the for 7 hours straight, it was a pretty solid table and also had some guys that were pretty straight forward...soooo the 1 or 3 straight forward guys raises (he's directly on my right) so i decided to give him a standard 3-bet with Q9s.(he had over 100k i nchips and i believe i had around 40-50k cant remember) , folds back around to him and he smooth calls. ok good right?
flop
xx9...woo top pair...nice...he checks to me....i fire out my standard c-bet of just over half the pot...and he check raises me all in. holy shit easy fold on a normal day right? so i time bank and really thought about what he would flat me with there....i dont know if it was from playing so much or just being a fucking idiot but i called and he had AA...very well played by him. me on ther other hand....what a fucking amature move. my thought process wasnt there....i gave him such a standard set of hand ranges that i didnt even bother to include the big hands such as kk/aa...and the fact that i had him noted as a pretty striaght forward player who hasnt been out of line the whole day, this is an easy fold....50bb stack going into day 2 playing for $150k...obviously my bad.
so i was pertty bummed about busting out like that but it was totally my fault and thats the only way to learn from your mistakes so whatever
sunday was pretty solid too, i was debating on playing the SCOOP-Low main event ($109) along with the $22 500k gtd SCOOP-Low and the miniFTOPS main event ($75). I decided not to play the scoop main and just add a few other games into the mix along with the ftops main. So i fire up the regular sunday games, double duece, most of the $26s gtd on ftp, $11 qt mill on stars etc etc.
I'm running pretty good in the scoop event and ended up getting into the money but just went totally card dead and ended up busting slighlty into the money...but still i think 20k people played and i monyed it so it was alright i guess...still would have been nice to hit.
I had a pretty solid showing the $26 42k gtd (15k for first i think)..got down to 31 players and im in the BB with 67s. now i successful 3-bet all in the SB when it was folded to him and he raised it, but this time he raised it 3x, which was different from the last time. for some reason i always believe when people do this they are just trying to buy the pot, but the last 2 times i pushed light they always show up with a hand..so lesson learned....DO NOT RE SHIP IF SOMEONE RAISES PRE 3x's. unless of course you have another read on him and he's showed down jack shit when he's done this...but again i didnt have enough info to even think about making this profitable...he woke up with AQo which my push isnt terrible i guess because its still 41/59, so its not like a total domination and if i win there im in a great spot to FT and possible go on for a sick ass score. but nonetheless i still think i can fold and maybe find a better spot but i guess ill take 60/40s all day long deep in a tournament when i can..better than being totally dominated but i still hate the push with his bet....if he would have bet his standard 2.3-2.6x then i think another shove would have been fine, even if i did do it the orbit before....i think he would probably fold out or even make a light call and as you can see against almost the top range im really not that big of a dog unless he makes some bogus call with a6 or some bull shit. anyways sadly i was out but still made a few decent bucks.
ftops main event.....so not only did i have connection problems saturday but this carrier into sunday and this tournament i think had a small impact on that...it was pretty early...we started with 7500 chips...i think i was still hovering around 8-9k at this point and had 77 on the button....utg+1 raises and i smooth call...flop comes down k7x. he bets out, i call. turn is a Q ....he bets out again and i put in a re raise..really thinking we are playing for stacks here and hes got a big broadway hand, he was pretty tight....so then..boom all my games are up but nothing is happening...i click reraise again...nothing, WTF....so the fucking full tilt 'connecting' thing comes up and i come back and its on the next hand....at first i was pretty pissed but then figure maybe the poker gods were saving me from his flopped trip kings..so whatever. i still build a nice stack and had a nice nice niceeeee fucking pot with AA when 2 dudes shipped it, i was up to 80k with blinds at 300/600/antes. sitting 35/4k people..still a long way but god damn it felt good again to have a nice stack in a huge tournament($153k for 1st) and a lot of play left. as i brag about how fucking awesome my post flop play has gotten in the last few weeks this hand goes back to how to play like a newb and not think thru each decsion.
hand...
a few hands after i raped those dudes with AA i get KK in middle position. (i really need to get the HHs so i can just post it instead of this)
limp from utg+2, i raise up 2499 and get a call from the button, sb , bb and the limper...jesus christ really? alarms should go off now to play VERY cautious on the flop.
flop comes 98J w/2 diamonds. the sb fires out a pot sized bet which i believe was around 8k+, folded to me, i call. I really cant remember what the turn was but it was a blank. the sb fires out about 12-13k into 24kish pot. i instantly...and i seriously believe it was 3-4 seconds shove all in (im sitting on 66k still after the flop bet call which is 110bbs?!) he insta calls with T7o for the straight ball, gg me. again i dont know what i was thinking here because i clearly wasnt..i was worried about having KK in a sick tournament and trying to get as many chips as possible and i didnt slow down one bit. woudl i ever put him on a straight there? very possible....he's getting a trillion to 1 pot odds pre flop so calling with hands like QT, J9,J8, small pps etc etc are obviously in his range...pretty newb stuff that i should know. sadly on friday i was involved in a pot and i folded AA on the turn...ive never done this before but figured i was beat so no need to go crazy. i could have easily folded kk here and put him on atleast 2 pair..or maybe call a turn bet and see what the river shows and maybe he checks to me hoping i bet ..or if the river bet is huge just fold it. all options so you dont blow a 100bb+ stack. but whatever another spot to learn from.
the team comp ended and Team Gags won it all. A lot of low stakes guys really stepped it up and shipped some shit...i ended up taking 11th overall in the low stakes out of 27, so alittle above average. If a few things would have went my way i could have easily done better, but thats poker. really looking forward to the next competition which im hoping will be around WCOOP time in sept.
i think thats about all i got...chrisp200 on a sick heater right now, shipped 3 tournaments in 1 day. very nice to have him back grinding mtts.
i took monday off and watched some DoubleDave videos on pokerxfactor because i was seriously just disgusted with the results of the weekend and really pissed at myself. so i refocused and played a decent schedule tuesday. i only got semi deep in the $5r 12k gtd 6max on tilt but finished around 20-30ish i think, i forget. i did get raped in the $75 40k and the $55 10k but what can ya do..get the cards in good and smile. i took off yesterday too and watched another video, trying to get my game up to bar when im deep in a tournament before the final table. really slacking in that department but we are getting there.
bankroll is still hoovering around 3k so hopefully by the end of May i'll be atleast over the 4k mark, its fucking annoying going from 3k down to 2k up to 2.5k down 2k up to 3k, rinse and repeat. volume wise though i really hit it hard from the comp, i think all in all it was 456 MTTs played in about 3 weeks, pretty solid...and im over 1100 already for the year. I think that is well over the total amount of MTTs ive played in my whole career. haaah so pretty sick....i'm really hoping to get atleast 375 mtts a month to keep my volume up because with volume comes da monies.
anyways this is super long but one last thing i want to accomplish by June 1st.
-min of 5-6k bankroll
-ship a 5-figure score(obviously bankroll will be way bigger than that)
-ship 5 tournaments (any game)
pretty big goals hahahah but i think its something thats achievable in 1.5 months. gl me and to the other maybe 2 or 3 people that actually read this.
My stack didnt do shit for a good 4-5 hours if not more but the structure is so sick in that thing at no point was I in push/fold mode. I played pretty solid poker and was really pumped about my post flop play(something i've been trying to work on). We ended up getting into the money with about 2 hours to go until the 1st day went on break. Around the 45 mins left mark I had a pretty sick stack at about 50BBs after winning a pretty big flop all in pre for another guy.
the hand :
i had all the players marked and pretty much was at the same table the for 7 hours straight, it was a pretty solid table and also had some guys that were pretty straight forward...soooo the 1 or 3 straight forward guys raises (he's directly on my right) so i decided to give him a standard 3-bet with Q9s.(he had over 100k i nchips and i believe i had around 40-50k cant remember) , folds back around to him and he smooth calls. ok good right?
flop
xx9...woo top pair...nice...he checks to me....i fire out my standard c-bet of just over half the pot...and he check raises me all in. holy shit easy fold on a normal day right? so i time bank and really thought about what he would flat me with there....i dont know if it was from playing so much or just being a fucking idiot but i called and he had AA...very well played by him. me on ther other hand....what a fucking amature move. my thought process wasnt there....i gave him such a standard set of hand ranges that i didnt even bother to include the big hands such as kk/aa...and the fact that i had him noted as a pretty striaght forward player who hasnt been out of line the whole day, this is an easy fold....50bb stack going into day 2 playing for $150k...obviously my bad.
so i was pertty bummed about busting out like that but it was totally my fault and thats the only way to learn from your mistakes so whatever
sunday was pretty solid too, i was debating on playing the SCOOP-Low main event ($109) along with the $22 500k gtd SCOOP-Low and the miniFTOPS main event ($75). I decided not to play the scoop main and just add a few other games into the mix along with the ftops main. So i fire up the regular sunday games, double duece, most of the $26s gtd on ftp, $11 qt mill on stars etc etc.
I'm running pretty good in the scoop event and ended up getting into the money but just went totally card dead and ended up busting slighlty into the money...but still i think 20k people played and i monyed it so it was alright i guess...still would have been nice to hit.
I had a pretty solid showing the $26 42k gtd (15k for first i think)..got down to 31 players and im in the BB with 67s. now i successful 3-bet all in the SB when it was folded to him and he raised it, but this time he raised it 3x, which was different from the last time. for some reason i always believe when people do this they are just trying to buy the pot, but the last 2 times i pushed light they always show up with a hand..so lesson learned....DO NOT RE SHIP IF SOMEONE RAISES PRE 3x's. unless of course you have another read on him and he's showed down jack shit when he's done this...but again i didnt have enough info to even think about making this profitable...he woke up with AQo which my push isnt terrible i guess because its still 41/59, so its not like a total domination and if i win there im in a great spot to FT and possible go on for a sick ass score. but nonetheless i still think i can fold and maybe find a better spot but i guess ill take 60/40s all day long deep in a tournament when i can..better than being totally dominated but i still hate the push with his bet....if he would have bet his standard 2.3-2.6x then i think another shove would have been fine, even if i did do it the orbit before....i think he would probably fold out or even make a light call and as you can see against almost the top range im really not that big of a dog unless he makes some bogus call with a6 or some bull shit. anyways sadly i was out but still made a few decent bucks.
ftops main event.....so not only did i have connection problems saturday but this carrier into sunday and this tournament i think had a small impact on that...it was pretty early...we started with 7500 chips...i think i was still hovering around 8-9k at this point and had 77 on the button....utg+1 raises and i smooth call...flop comes down k7x. he bets out, i call. turn is a Q ....he bets out again and i put in a re raise..really thinking we are playing for stacks here and hes got a big broadway hand, he was pretty tight....so then..boom all my games are up but nothing is happening...i click reraise again...nothing, WTF....so the fucking full tilt 'connecting' thing comes up and i come back and its on the next hand....at first i was pretty pissed but then figure maybe the poker gods were saving me from his flopped trip kings..so whatever. i still build a nice stack and had a nice nice niceeeee fucking pot with AA when 2 dudes shipped it, i was up to 80k with blinds at 300/600/antes. sitting 35/4k people..still a long way but god damn it felt good again to have a nice stack in a huge tournament($153k for 1st) and a lot of play left. as i brag about how fucking awesome my post flop play has gotten in the last few weeks this hand goes back to how to play like a newb and not think thru each decsion.
hand...
a few hands after i raped those dudes with AA i get KK in middle position. (i really need to get the HHs so i can just post it instead of this)
limp from utg+2, i raise up 2499 and get a call from the button, sb , bb and the limper...jesus christ really? alarms should go off now to play VERY cautious on the flop.
flop comes 98J w/2 diamonds. the sb fires out a pot sized bet which i believe was around 8k+, folded to me, i call. I really cant remember what the turn was but it was a blank. the sb fires out about 12-13k into 24kish pot. i instantly...and i seriously believe it was 3-4 seconds shove all in (im sitting on 66k still after the flop bet call which is 110bbs?!) he insta calls with T7o for the straight ball, gg me. again i dont know what i was thinking here because i clearly wasnt..i was worried about having KK in a sick tournament and trying to get as many chips as possible and i didnt slow down one bit. woudl i ever put him on a straight there? very possible....he's getting a trillion to 1 pot odds pre flop so calling with hands like QT, J9,J8, small pps etc etc are obviously in his range...pretty newb stuff that i should know. sadly on friday i was involved in a pot and i folded AA on the turn...ive never done this before but figured i was beat so no need to go crazy. i could have easily folded kk here and put him on atleast 2 pair..or maybe call a turn bet and see what the river shows and maybe he checks to me hoping i bet ..or if the river bet is huge just fold it. all options so you dont blow a 100bb+ stack. but whatever another spot to learn from.
the team comp ended and Team Gags won it all. A lot of low stakes guys really stepped it up and shipped some shit...i ended up taking 11th overall in the low stakes out of 27, so alittle above average. If a few things would have went my way i could have easily done better, but thats poker. really looking forward to the next competition which im hoping will be around WCOOP time in sept.
i think thats about all i got...chrisp200 on a sick heater right now, shipped 3 tournaments in 1 day. very nice to have him back grinding mtts.
i took monday off and watched some DoubleDave videos on pokerxfactor because i was seriously just disgusted with the results of the weekend and really pissed at myself. so i refocused and played a decent schedule tuesday. i only got semi deep in the $5r 12k gtd 6max on tilt but finished around 20-30ish i think, i forget. i did get raped in the $75 40k and the $55 10k but what can ya do..get the cards in good and smile. i took off yesterday too and watched another video, trying to get my game up to bar when im deep in a tournament before the final table. really slacking in that department but we are getting there.
bankroll is still hoovering around 3k so hopefully by the end of May i'll be atleast over the 4k mark, its fucking annoying going from 3k down to 2k up to 2.5k down 2k up to 3k, rinse and repeat. volume wise though i really hit it hard from the comp, i think all in all it was 456 MTTs played in about 3 weeks, pretty solid...and im over 1100 already for the year. I think that is well over the total amount of MTTs ive played in my whole career. haaah so pretty sick....i'm really hoping to get atleast 375 mtts a month to keep my volume up because with volume comes da monies.
anyways this is super long but one last thing i want to accomplish by June 1st.
-min of 5-6k bankroll
-ship a 5-figure score(obviously bankroll will be way bigger than that)
-ship 5 tournaments (any game)
pretty big goals hahahah but i think its something thats achievable in 1.5 months. gl me and to the other maybe 2 or 3 people that actually read this.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Taking my Shot
Here we go , last weekend for the Team Comp....played pretty solid 11 hours yesterday and ran deep in the $3 rebuy on stars ended up shippin the button with Q9 into bb's 77 and couldnt win a race, no problem though. Had a lot of nice stacks yesterday but crapped out.
Today I'm playing the $216 6-max 2-day MiniFTOPS events! 30 mins levels 5k starting stacks. I really thought about it and I decided to go for it. been playing pretty good lately so we will see if it pays off!
Other news i finally ended that shitty downswing on stars with a $16.50 $30k GTD final table....ended up getting KK in vs AQ with 6 left..A on flop gg..first was 6.5k :( seems i cant win those 'races' when we get so fucking deep! thats alright I'll save my one time for the big event today....also playing the $55 PLO and $22 HORSE for SCOOP and the $10 rebuy PLO miniFTOPS plus other regular schedule tournament....big day today! gl at the tables.
Today I'm playing the $216 6-max 2-day MiniFTOPS events! 30 mins levels 5k starting stacks. I really thought about it and I decided to go for it. been playing pretty good lately so we will see if it pays off!
Other news i finally ended that shitty downswing on stars with a $16.50 $30k GTD final table....ended up getting KK in vs AQ with 6 left..A on flop gg..first was 6.5k :( seems i cant win those 'races' when we get so fucking deep! thats alright I'll save my one time for the big event today....also playing the $55 PLO and $22 HORSE for SCOOP and the $10 rebuy PLO miniFTOPS plus other regular schedule tournament....big day today! gl at the tables.
Monday, May 10, 2010
SUCKsess
Only 1 whole week left in the competition...things are getting heated. sick night last night for my team mates....szu shipped the sunday mully for 55k...fly44 took 10th....also delux shipped rebuy for 12k last week...dapretzel crushing final tables nightly....currently we are sitting in 7th with some scores missing...so we may be up to 5-6th area. I'm sitting in 10th right now :/
Played a half day schedule yesterday because of mom's day and i got raped. I registered for the 5pm SCOOP ($22 2-day event) and the $33 deep stack FTOPS. I ended up coming back around 615 and still had about 9k in scoop and 4k in ftops. few hands into the scoop i get KK in the SB with about 6.5k stack...ended up 4 betting all in pre into AA gg me. Built up a sicko stack in the FTOPS ....only like 14k people showed up to play. Anyways, a terrible terrible turn bet bluff to an UTG sicko mtt raiser....
villian: 30k (i really dont remember but we had aroun the same amount of chips)
me: 26k(roughly)
really i cant remember the blinds and shit but he was utg and raised about 2.3-2.4x....i was utg +2 with 55 and 35bb+ stack...my first instinct was to fold, i opr'd him and he was fucking solid so i figured he might have a wider range and trying to UTG steal so i elected to smooth call(only about 5% of my stack i do remember that) with the intent to fold to a squeeze(might be a leak but my table was the kind of table that would be playing monsters pretty stando minus 1-2 other people that seemed pretty decent) anyways we get to a heads up pot and i have position..
flop: K 4 8
he bets out about half or little over half the pot (i really wish i had the HH but its at home). My problem with spots like this is I try to make an assumption on what he's doing with little to no reads...he was new to the table and prob the first hand he played...so fucking fold u idiot...but no i decided to float him because his bet just seemed like it was kinda weak.
turn: K 4 8 8
he checks....i really was thinking of checking behind and just check/foldin the river...but instead i throw out about 6400 into 10k and he reships in my face. i ended up folding and lost a decent portion of my stack (had about 16-17bbs after this hand). I'm spewing with low pp's recently and it needs to stop. gotta have a solid read on somebody before you go making moves and blowing stacks...there was no reason for it.
so a few hands later im in BB with 77 and another dude raises 2.3x and i ship it, he timebanks and calls with AJ...JJx flop gg me....about 300ish from the money....not that it mattered because i was playing for first but just gayyyyyyyyyy.
also i donked out of the $5 rebuy 6max on another small pp....spewed my stack with 44 into aa ..gg..i did min cash that but no points for the Team comp.
Saturday was another disappointing day...not much happened there.
friday i shipped the double A for just under $1800, so my huge downswing finally ended on a good note.
also on stars, since my 4th place in the 8.80 for 1400 ive been on a 80-90 buy in downswing along on that site, they hate me. please one time? ship me a scoop? or just any tournament again? dont hate.
i think i was around chip leader when the final table came about. Only 1 real solid dude and he busto'd 5th. one of the easiest FTs ive played in...got down to heads up and ended up getting my A8s vs A9o...binked the 8 on the riv gg sir...+1782 and 96 TLB points. now if i can rinse and repeat 5 more times with some high 4 figure scores.
MAY so far
i got crushed on UB i only had about 200 over there and lost it in about a week. 0 cashes. even after my win friday it still puts me about break even over the last 100 this month. better than the last 100 games i had...stars i just a killer, if i could run good once on that site it would be great...look...
i know sick sample size right? 225 games this year on stars isnt shit but its just frustrating compared to this.....
so i have like almost 3x's as many games on tilt so i guess i shouldnt be bitching too much....my first 350 games on tilt i was breakeven so i guess its stando. remember more volume=more money. so even though the QQ gets sucked out deep in a tournament to KQ , YOU WANT THAT. it makes us more monies in the end.
Ill have some team updates maybe tonight/tomorrow once most of the scores get updated. Pens play tonight, i might play i might not, need to increase my volume a lot ...currently i have 259 tournaments for the whole competition which is about 15-16/day. eh so so, would love to be at 450+ by the end of the comp and have atleast a 5k roll which is double what i have now. up and down up and down.
Played a half day schedule yesterday because of mom's day and i got raped. I registered for the 5pm SCOOP ($22 2-day event) and the $33 deep stack FTOPS. I ended up coming back around 615 and still had about 9k in scoop and 4k in ftops. few hands into the scoop i get KK in the SB with about 6.5k stack...ended up 4 betting all in pre into AA gg me. Built up a sicko stack in the FTOPS ....only like 14k people showed up to play. Anyways, a terrible terrible turn bet bluff to an UTG sicko mtt raiser....
villian: 30k (i really dont remember but we had aroun the same amount of chips)
me: 26k(roughly)
really i cant remember the blinds and shit but he was utg and raised about 2.3-2.4x....i was utg +2 with 55 and 35bb+ stack...my first instinct was to fold, i opr'd him and he was fucking solid so i figured he might have a wider range and trying to UTG steal so i elected to smooth call(only about 5% of my stack i do remember that) with the intent to fold to a squeeze(might be a leak but my table was the kind of table that would be playing monsters pretty stando minus 1-2 other people that seemed pretty decent) anyways we get to a heads up pot and i have position..
flop: K 4 8
he bets out about half or little over half the pot (i really wish i had the HH but its at home). My problem with spots like this is I try to make an assumption on what he's doing with little to no reads...he was new to the table and prob the first hand he played...so fucking fold u idiot...but no i decided to float him because his bet just seemed like it was kinda weak.
turn: K 4 8 8
he checks....i really was thinking of checking behind and just check/foldin the river...but instead i throw out about 6400 into 10k and he reships in my face. i ended up folding and lost a decent portion of my stack (had about 16-17bbs after this hand). I'm spewing with low pp's recently and it needs to stop. gotta have a solid read on somebody before you go making moves and blowing stacks...there was no reason for it.
so a few hands later im in BB with 77 and another dude raises 2.3x and i ship it, he timebanks and calls with AJ...JJx flop gg me....about 300ish from the money....not that it mattered because i was playing for first but just gayyyyyyyyyy.
also i donked out of the $5 rebuy 6max on another small pp....spewed my stack with 44 into aa ..gg..i did min cash that but no points for the Team comp.
Saturday was another disappointing day...not much happened there.
friday i shipped the double A for just under $1800, so my huge downswing finally ended on a good note.
also on stars, since my 4th place in the 8.80 for 1400 ive been on a 80-90 buy in downswing along on that site, they hate me. please one time? ship me a scoop? or just any tournament again? dont hate.
i think i was around chip leader when the final table came about. Only 1 real solid dude and he busto'd 5th. one of the easiest FTs ive played in...got down to heads up and ended up getting my A8s vs A9o...binked the 8 on the riv gg sir...+1782 and 96 TLB points. now if i can rinse and repeat 5 more times with some high 4 figure scores.
MAY so far
i got crushed on UB i only had about 200 over there and lost it in about a week. 0 cashes. even after my win friday it still puts me about break even over the last 100 this month. better than the last 100 games i had...stars i just a killer, if i could run good once on that site it would be great...look...
i know sick sample size right? 225 games this year on stars isnt shit but its just frustrating compared to this.....
so i have like almost 3x's as many games on tilt so i guess i shouldnt be bitching too much....my first 350 games on tilt i was breakeven so i guess its stando. remember more volume=more money. so even though the QQ gets sucked out deep in a tournament to KQ , YOU WANT THAT. it makes us more monies in the end.
Ill have some team updates maybe tonight/tomorrow once most of the scores get updated. Pens play tonight, i might play i might not, need to increase my volume a lot ...currently i have 259 tournaments for the whole competition which is about 15-16/day. eh so so, would love to be at 450+ by the end of the comp and have atleast a 5k roll which is double what i have now. up and down up and down.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Dear RNG....
....today starts the miniFTOPS and as you know the SCOOP is already going on. Can you please let me run good? The past few weeks youve pretty much kicked me in the testicles multiple times with steel toed boots. I know sometimes you like to give the other players a hint of hope and making them think they are actually playing good and good at poker but seriously? fucking stop. When they want to give me their chips and money, LET THEM. This is a 'run good' letter so please please please let it happen. I need the points and I need to get my bankroll to $50k and the only way to do so is if you help me out once in a while. remember the QQ < KQo all in pre with 17 to go in the double duece (1st was $35k) and you prison fucked my ass....not cool. I'm not asking for a 'one time'..I'm asking for an 'all the time'...just for the next few weeks and then you can go back to your old whore ways.
Thanks,
TJ
Thanks,
TJ
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
SwingDown
gayyyyyyyyyyy....what a fucking time to have one???? right in the middle of comp too. been pretty shitty week...just up and down and up and down...ended up playing the 2 sunday SCOOP events, terrible bluff gone bad about 3 hours in the 6-max event. ended up busting...then i dont even remember what happened in the 2-day event but it was probably pretty bad. Everything else has taken a shit, I got some money on UB because it seems like a gold mine..well it is....but if i can run fucking good one time maybe?! sitting top 5 in chips in the $3r and just couldnt win shit...63 paid, 64 left im down to about 15 bbs...55 ship all in, called by AJ...gg me on the bubble, awesome. i shouldnt be bitching about it i know it happens and you gotta run good to win these things..more annoyed than anything. I took yesterday off and most likely will be taking today off (pens playoff game) so i should be fresh for wednesday sesh. i got work this weekend 8-12 sat/sun so thats fucking gay and its mothers day, so i dont know how much volume i'm going to get in.
The competition is so so, I'm sitting in 9th and my team is in 14th. DaPreztel just had a sicko night finishing 3rd in the $55 1R1A and also sick 5th place in the $109 1R1A PLO SCOOP event...it doesnt count towards the comp but it was pretty sweet to watch him run deep. The other guys are doing great too, we got a lot of time left so hopefully these other players blow their load early and then we can sweep in and close it. plenty of time and events left.
I got nothing but I'll leave you with the last 108 games ive played...sick stats....bout a 50ish Buy in downswing..pretty stando. bankroll management!
The competition is so so, I'm sitting in 9th and my team is in 14th. DaPreztel just had a sicko night finishing 3rd in the $55 1R1A and also sick 5th place in the $109 1R1A PLO SCOOP event...it doesnt count towards the comp but it was pretty sweet to watch him run deep. The other guys are doing great too, we got a lot of time left so hopefully these other players blow their load early and then we can sweep in and close it. plenty of time and events left.
I got nothing but I'll leave you with the last 108 games ive played...sick stats....bout a 50ish Buy in downswing..pretty stando. bankroll management!
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