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.