So I played the MSOP Event #2 on Full Tilt today. It was a $16 donkament like 5000 someodd players with like a 80k prize pool and $15.5k for first. Here's a little write up of my tournament experience. I'm going to be doing something similar to this in all the MSOP events I go deep in. No official hand history so bare with me on the hands I desribe.
The first hour of the tournament I played fairly snug picking up pot here and there trying to get a tight image. I won a fairly nice pot with 77. A coouple limpers and I limp on the button with 77. Flop AT7 2 diamonds. Early position player bets 1/3 pot and I raised. Turn was a blank and villian checked I fired and he called. River was another blank and I fired and he folded. And moved up to about 4k on that hand. That was about the only hand that was of any importance in the first hour.
The next huge hand was during the 2nd or 3rd hour so I'm not such of the blinds. I raised like 2.5 times the big blind w/ AQo and get one caller. The flop was QJ9 2 dimaonds I c-bet and other player calls. The turn is the 8 of diamonds putting a 4 card straight on the board and 3 diamonds (I have the ace of diamonds). I check and he shoves like 3.2k into a 2.6k pot. I think for a second and dont think he has a ten and if he has 2 pair I have resuck outs and I call. He shows AJ and i double up on that hand.
I won KK versus AK for another decent pot. This was another big hand. I raised 66 utg+1 and get one caller in the small blind (not sure of the blinds). Flop is AJ6 2 diamonds (maybe hearts don't remember). He check-called my contiuation bet. The turn brought a blank but it but 2 flush draws on board. At least point there is about 13k in the pot. Normally I would bet something like 7k or 8k into the pot but I thought they had like a draw or maybe a weak ace, so I shoved 17k into the pot. I thought I looked way weak and could get called by a weak ace maybe even a flush draw but he folded.
I cant really think of any big hands between that one and the bubble besides two. I called a raise wth 99 and check raised all-in on a 722 flop and took down the pot. Another hand a player limp utg I have KK and raise it up... he shoves with TT and of course i call. FLOP AK5 all clubs he has a club. Turn is a Q. River J! O hi der mr. straight! That pot woulda put me into the top 15 on the bubble, but I still had a good stack.
Basically between the bubble and a little after I ran like god. I won a bunch of short stack races and coolers. I raise AQs and get shoved on by 8 bbs. I call obviously and suck out on AK. I won an A9 > KK 8 bb shove and I won a 44 > Q9s race.
There's about 2 other hands of importance before my bust out hand. The blinds are @ 2500/5k. It's folded around to the bubble who raises to 13k. He has about 67k behind and had been very aggressive raising the button a lot of times when it folded around to him. The big blind has about 58k and I had 132k. I shoved with 55 and the big blind and button fold. This next hand could have been huge for the tournament. Blinds are 3k/6k. utg+3 min raised to 12k. the next guy calls and I hold KK. I raised it up to 42.2k. The original raiser goes into the tank. He has about 130k (or something around there). While hes in the tank another player is egging him on to call. I had been fairly aggressive with my 3-bets (always had a hand) and he pretty much thought of me as a lagtard. Eventually he folded claiming he had AQ (probably offsuit). Tht hand would of put me at like 300k and top 10 in chips. But I was still good.
After that hand I basically went card dead and had terrible position. Basically all the stacks to my left had 15 big blinds or less so any pot I opened I basically had to call a shove. Also, the antes on tilt are so huge that it eats away at your stack if you go a few rounds without playing. I basically got down to like 120k @ 5k/10k. A short stack shoved like 98k or soemthing from the hijack and I had 66 in the big blind. I basically said lets gamble, called and he flipped over 77 and he had me dominated board missed and I had like 18k left. Next hand he raised it up I had 5k in the big blind and 10k left so I called with 98 and lost that hand as well and was out in 82nd place.
After about 5 and half hours of play, it's a little disappointing to come away with only about $100. I was so close to hitting that big score that I seriously need for my bankroll. However, I do have some money that I can play some more MSOP events and hopefully he it big in those. Finishing 82nd out of 5300 people in this donkfest was something I think is a good accomplishment. I'm probably going to play the Pot Limit Hold'em on Monday, so look for another update like this one and if you don't see one Monday night or Tuesday morning, I probably donked out. Stay for more updates on all of these MSOP events.
WSOP, MSOP, etc!
Not much to update in terms of me playing poker. I played the $1 Million dollar Turbo Takedown and bubbled it obviously! I played extrmemly well and had a good stack. If it had been a normal blind level structure I would have made it deep, but anyways I bubbled that. My bust out hand. Blinds are 300/600 and I have about 8k. I raise to 1450 with AKo. A big stack to my direct left re-raises to 3k. Normally this is an instapush and please win a flip, but I was almost certain his range was exactly KK+. I even said outloud AA obvoius but I pushed anyways and he had AA. Hello Mr. Bubble. How are you today? I finished like 4200something and 4k got paid. O well, another bubble to hang on my wall.
The World Series of Poker is starting up and I'm extrememly excited. Not because I'm playing. I'm too young obviously, but just because this is the most exciting time of year for poker. I love following these events just because its enteraining. I always have a little prop bet with some guys. We each got 20 guys and the most bracelets wins. My guys are as follows: Allen Cunningham, Erik Seidel, Scott "BigRiskky" Clements, Bill Edler, Justin Bonomo, John Phan, Jon "PearlJammer" Turner, JC Tran, Daniel Alelei, Rafi Amit, Jonathan "FieryJustice" Little, Gavin Griffin, Joe Sebok, Huck Seed, Chris Reslock, Chad Brown, David Williams, Eli Elizrea, John Hennigan, Tom "Durrr" Dwan. So please root for these guys to ship some bracelets. I would apprecaite it.
Also Full Tilt is running a Mini Series of Poker where the buy ins a 1/100th of the buy in of the WSOP event that it corresponds to. I'm going to play a few of these events. Hopefully I can get a decent cash in the first few so I don't have to get some swaping action going on. I know Brian, TheMatrix, is playing a lot too. So hopefully we can get some big cashes. Theres a lot of $30 and under tournaments so I'm excited about those, and the main event has $250k added to a $100 freezeout, so that's pretty sick. I'm hoping to play a lot of the mixed game events since thats my strong point. Too bad Full Tilt doesn't have 2-7 Triple Draw, that would be my favorite events of the whole series. Let's get some triple draw on Full Tilt!!! Please and thank you! Good luck to all the people playing in the WSOP and MSOP events. I will have updates on all events I play and if anyone I like in the high stakes world ships a bracelet. So stay tuned! 2 Atreyu videos just cuse they're badass!
The World Series of Poker is starting up and I'm extrememly excited. Not because I'm playing. I'm too young obviously, but just because this is the most exciting time of year for poker. I love following these events just because its enteraining. I always have a little prop bet with some guys. We each got 20 guys and the most bracelets wins. My guys are as follows: Allen Cunningham, Erik Seidel, Scott "BigRiskky" Clements, Bill Edler, Justin Bonomo, John Phan, Jon "PearlJammer" Turner, JC Tran, Daniel Alelei, Rafi Amit, Jonathan "FieryJustice" Little, Gavin Griffin, Joe Sebok, Huck Seed, Chris Reslock, Chad Brown, David Williams, Eli Elizrea, John Hennigan, Tom "Durrr" Dwan. So please root for these guys to ship some bracelets. I would apprecaite it.
Also Full Tilt is running a Mini Series of Poker where the buy ins a 1/100th of the buy in of the WSOP event that it corresponds to. I'm going to play a few of these events. Hopefully I can get a decent cash in the first few so I don't have to get some swaping action going on. I know Brian, TheMatrix, is playing a lot too. So hopefully we can get some big cashes. Theres a lot of $30 and under tournaments so I'm excited about those, and the main event has $250k added to a $100 freezeout, so that's pretty sick. I'm hoping to play a lot of the mixed game events since thats my strong point. Too bad Full Tilt doesn't have 2-7 Triple Draw, that would be my favorite events of the whole series. Let's get some triple draw on Full Tilt!!! Please and thank you! Good luck to all the people playing in the WSOP and MSOP events. I will have updates on all events I play and if anyone I like in the high stakes world ships a bracelet. So stay tuned! 2 Atreyu videos just cuse they're badass!
Updateaments
So I havent been able to write in blogs lately and there are a lot of reasons for this. Probably because I havent been playing much, so there really isn't anything to write or analysis. Anyways, I'm finally done with school. Finals were a complete pain in my ass, but I'm done and over with. Longview was okay, but I'm happy to get out of that school and go to a place I really want to go to. Missouri, here I come!
As some of you know my baby brother has finally arived. Chace was born May 12 at 5:46pm. He 9 lbs 8 oz. 20 in long(I'll post pics once I get them uploaded on my computer). Right now hes just like me, eats and sleeps. I'm liking it right now! So thats soemthing thats pretty cool thats going on right now.
So I think FTOPS sattys just hate me. Somehow I find a way to bubble every time I play one of these. It makes me want to seriously jump off a bridge face first into a concrete surface. It's just so sick! Myabe it's my own fault for playing in limit sattys or playing in tournaments where the average person in the field is a complete and utter idiot! Whatever, I will succeed in these one of these days.
I'm probably gonna start putting in some volume in the coming future, so you can expect some mind blowing blogs from the insane mind of myself. Hopefully I can get my poker game out of the muck its in your now! For now, peace and love! Outtie!
*EDIT*
Ship the Million $ Turbo Takedown entry. Remember how bad I ran on tilt? I ran twice as good on stars. Although I was only behind one time and crush that guys hopes and dreams. I think at the final 4 we had a guy all in and behind 4 times and they sucked out to stay alive, but i prevailed in the end. Next stop 100k! tyty
As some of you know my baby brother has finally arived. Chace was born May 12 at 5:46pm. He 9 lbs 8 oz. 20 in long(I'll post pics once I get them uploaded on my computer). Right now hes just like me, eats and sleeps. I'm liking it right now! So thats soemthing thats pretty cool thats going on right now.
So I think FTOPS sattys just hate me. Somehow I find a way to bubble every time I play one of these. It makes me want to seriously jump off a bridge face first into a concrete surface. It's just so sick! Myabe it's my own fault for playing in limit sattys or playing in tournaments where the average person in the field is a complete and utter idiot! Whatever, I will succeed in these one of these days.
I'm probably gonna start putting in some volume in the coming future, so you can expect some mind blowing blogs from the insane mind of myself. Hopefully I can get my poker game out of the muck its in your now! For now, peace and love! Outtie!
*EDIT*
Ship the Million $ Turbo Takedown entry. Remember how bad I ran on tilt? I ran twice as good on stars. Although I was only behind one time and crush that guys hopes and dreams. I think at the final 4 we had a guy all in and behind 4 times and they sucked out to stay alive, but i prevailed in the end. Next stop 100k! tyty
