So I've had a pretty good little run the last couple of days. I've actually won a few step sit n goes on stars. Obviously, I've bubbled all the sit n goes to the atually event, but I'm at least getting there and having a chance to move on to the big show.I finished 2nd in the $5 Railbirds tournament on Full Tilt. Not going to lie, I should have won, but lose 2 races HU; not much I can do in the situation. If we were deeper than 20 big blinds I would have destroyed him HU. Oh well! I'm actually going to do a little report on this next one. I finished 13th in the Stars afternoon $3 rebuy. I was so close to getting that big first score, but once again I run bad when it gets down to crunch time.
I'm a little sketchy on a lot of the hand details and don't really remember a lot of the hands for the first few hours so this won't be as detailed as my MSOP reports but you see some hands and most of them I lost. First hand I remember is near the bubble.
Stacks: I have about 60k and opponent has about 40k. Blinds: 500/1k ante ??.. Opponent is HR_DUB who has like 100k+ in winnings and I assume a good player. He had been opening a lot of pots near the bubble. So he opens to 2500 I have AQ suited in the big blind and repop him to like 8.5k. And he re-shoves. Now, If this was a worse player I know I'm beat or raising but because of many threads I've been reading on Pockt 5's, the resteal has gone crazy. I thought I might have the best hand. I called he showed QQ and long story short I hit a flush and a big pot that put me in the top 5.
I got moved tables when I was 3rd in chips and of course the guy whose in 2nd is to my right, so at least I have position on him. The guy was the typical insane scandy player. And really he owned me in about 3 pots which I don't really want to say because I don't remember and I had a big fat airball every time.
Stacks: I had like 130k I think. Insane Scandy 260kish. Blinds: 3k/6k 600 ante. Blind versus blind He calls. I check KQ. Flop JT2. Check/check. I really didnt want to bet here cuse he liked the check raise a lot and I wanted to play a small pot.. Turn: 9 our gin card. He leads for 7888 and I reraise to 22222 with the nuts and he basically insta calls. River J put a 3 card flush and a possible house on the board. He checks and I value bet 31k here. I dont think he has a flush possibly a jack that there's no way he folds. If he has a full house he almost always leads the river with a bet. Anyways, he insta calls with T8 for middle pair. weeeeee!
I folded, and folded, and folded and finally find 88 when a guy opened shvoed from UTG for 20 big blinds. I instacall win the race versus AQ. YAY! I tripled up to like 600k. I have 230k. I raise to 18.5k pot short stack makes a pot committing raise guy flat calls behind. I insta ship with ??? ... the rockets, baby! AA holds for once against QQ and 99. Ship the chips. Next hand was a boo boo! Oops.
Stacks: 670k Opp: 310k Blinds: 6k/12k 600 ante. I open 99 from UTG to 29l and get called from utg+1 and on the button. Flop: Q58. I lead for 57k. UTG+1 raises to 132k button folds. I could really find a queen in his hand. So really I was hoping he was raising with air and I could shove of the top with the best hand. I didn't really think about a set at all. Could really see him calling with 55, maybe 88 from an UTG raise. But I could really find a hand. I should have folded but I did too much thinking and shoved. Insta call! Oh hi der 55!
I moved tables guy raises gets called and I squeeze shove with AJ suited. Win race and I'm back to around where I was before. I won another hand where a guy openshoved 16 big blinds with KQ and I won another race with 99.
Stacks: 800k Opp 900l Blinds: 10k/20k with 1k ante. UTG limps. villian in this hand raises to 80k and I call from the button with TT. UTG folds. Flop: 865. Villian leads for 130k and I call. I really want to see what he does on the turn. If i raise I'm almost committed to the hand. Turn: J Villian checks. I bet 230k and villian folds. A little position play right there. Next hand UTG limps I raise to 80k with AA Big blind ships 360k with AQ and I hold. Weeeee 2nd in chips I think at this time!
Stacks: 1.5 million Opp: 653k Blinds: 15k/30k 1500 ante. Oppenent opens from UTG to 80k. Folds around to me and I have 99. I don't really like flatting and playing out of position against a 20 big blind stack, so I ship it in which is really my only choice besides calling. He insta calls with AK and I lose a 1.2 million chip pot and the chip lead. I think I made the right play here. He's folding a lot of hands here that I may let hit if I just call. In this hand the flop was A72. I would have been in a tough spot cuse he's contiuation betting hear with any raising range. Sigh @ losing the big race.
Stack: 650k Blinds: 25/50k. I have an M of about 6 and 13 big blinds. I'm dealt 55. I'm never folding to a re-raise if I open hear so I just ship it in to maximizes my fold equity. Mister AK race winner insta ships from behind with KK and I get knocked out in 13th for a pay day of $160 with first being 5.2k for first. SIGHHHHHHH!!!!
When I actually play these events I make it deep and keep knocking on the door of a big score. I have a feeling its coming I just don't know where. I'm almost out of my downswing so thats good! I might put in a little more volume since I'm only taking 2 online classes this semester! Come on big score! One mother f'n time!
College football stars up this week!!! YAY! There's a lot of excitement around Missouri this year. If we can just get pasted Illnois in this first game we don't really have a test in a while! People are going to be really surprised with how good Missouri's defense is going to be! William Moore and Shaun Witherspoon are freakin beasts! Of course! Daniel, Maclin, and Coffman are going to be putting up big numbers. And Derrick Washington is a stud! Been watchin him since he ran all over my high school and he's going to do it again! I'm tryin to see if I can get down to St. Louis for the Illnois game but it doesn't look like it :-/. Anyways Missouri going to win this one! 38-20! Daniel goes for 320 and 2 TDs and the start of a Hesiman season! Maclin has 2 TD and D-wash busts for a 50+ yard TD! I'm a psychic! WATCH! M-I-Z-Z-O-U!!!!
Frustration
So I'm in a pretty nasty little downswing right now. It's not like a terrible number or anything but its the frustration that comes along with it that makes it terrible. I'm down a couple hundred on Tilt and Stars and it just sucks. I see friends come through and getting big scores and I'm just waiting for my turn, if I even have a turn. It seems as if I run well in everything that has no significance to me at all. Really, the only tournaments of late that I've ran well in were the MSOP's and I have a 10k (probably average of like 3k) suckout. Do I really care if I run like good in the Railbirds tournament that has a $100 first prize when I get my head stompped on in the tournament with a 5k+ first prize? No, not really! It's not like I'm playing poorly at all. If I'd been getting my money in bad in every tournament and losing that would be one thing. But when you lose 120bb pots with KK < QQ, or flop a set against a guys gutterball striahgt draw and they hit, or a guy calls you with air on the flop and backdoors two pair to beat your floped 2, it gets really frustrating. My schedule this semster for school is really light, so I should have plenty of time to put in some volume and come up with a decent score. I'm not asking for something huge (like I should of had... sigh), but just a decent score to get me out of my downswing and on to slighty bigger stakes than the ones I'm playing now.
Dear Poker Gods,
I know you have unleashed your furious warth upon me lately, and I would really appreciate it if the curse would be lifted from me. I promise to play well (like always) and feed all the children of Mexico. I just ask to swim (run in poker terms) like Micheal Phelps. That's all I ask. It's not like I've done anything bad to you poker gods. I could go all Euguene Todd Bro on you guys, but I'm not. Just a short little letter to the almighty poker gods asking for the wrath to be transferred to some people less deserving (I could name a few railbirds in particular, but I'll be nice). I love you guys!!!
At your mercy,
Tim
Ok I guess I should do a little report on my FTOPS event that I played. I won a nine man $19 satty to the $129 KO Unlimited Hold'em FTOPS event on Sunday. After getting suckout out on in two $10 mtt sattys with pots that would have guarenteed me a seat, I played a sit n go and won because well I have go game selection and everyone in the sit n go had a negative roi, lucky me! Anyways, I was just grinding along for the first 30 minutes when I run into a loose spewtard who was terrible. I have about 3k, villian has about 1300 when the hand begins blinds 25/50 (I believe). Guy limps in early position, I limp behind with A8 of hearts, spewtard limps behind, sb calls, bb checks. Flop comes AJ6 two clubs. checks around to the spewtard who bets 200, everyone folds and I call. Turn is a 3. I check spewtard bets 350 or something like that. He has like 800 behind and could have a number of hands (flush draw, a jack,some sort of straight draw), so I shove hoping he didnt have a bigger ace which I was almost certain of, well he didnt have a bigger ace just A3 turning a 2 pair and I lose half my chips there. 30/60 I have like 1400. Guy raises to 160, mp calls, I over call with 88 (I really should have raised or folded but I guess calling isnt terrible), another terrible player shove allin for like 4k from the small blind. THis player was really bad, so I tanked. If I could but a pair lower than 88 in his range I think I have to call with only 20ish big blinds. I tanked forever and finally called. He had AK I flop good, turn give me an open ended straight draw, turn o hi der Mr. King! GG me. So FTOPS and FTOPS sattys sucked (except the 3 siper sattys I won for $55 each).
WCOOP is coming up really soon. I'm going to try to play the $215 Triple Draw and possibly the $215 HORSE. I'm going to try and look and sell some pieces of myself in these events if people are interested otherwise I'm probably going to try and satty in and if not probably take a shot out of bankroll. I'll probably play some $1/$3 rebuys and some of the $5/$10 guarentees on stars, and railbirds trnys of course. So that's my upcoming plans.
Dear Poker Gods,
I know you have unleashed your furious warth upon me lately, and I would really appreciate it if the curse would be lifted from me. I promise to play well (like always) and feed all the children of Mexico. I just ask to swim (run in poker terms) like Micheal Phelps. That's all I ask. It's not like I've done anything bad to you poker gods. I could go all Euguene Todd Bro on you guys, but I'm not. Just a short little letter to the almighty poker gods asking for the wrath to be transferred to some people less deserving (I could name a few railbirds in particular, but I'll be nice). I love you guys!!!
At your mercy,
Tim
Ok I guess I should do a little report on my FTOPS event that I played. I won a nine man $19 satty to the $129 KO Unlimited Hold'em FTOPS event on Sunday. After getting suckout out on in two $10 mtt sattys with pots that would have guarenteed me a seat, I played a sit n go and won because well I have go game selection and everyone in the sit n go had a negative roi, lucky me! Anyways, I was just grinding along for the first 30 minutes when I run into a loose spewtard who was terrible. I have about 3k, villian has about 1300 when the hand begins blinds 25/50 (I believe). Guy limps in early position, I limp behind with A8 of hearts, spewtard limps behind, sb calls, bb checks. Flop comes AJ6 two clubs. checks around to the spewtard who bets 200, everyone folds and I call. Turn is a 3. I check spewtard bets 350 or something like that. He has like 800 behind and could have a number of hands (flush draw, a jack,some sort of straight draw), so I shove hoping he didnt have a bigger ace which I was almost certain of, well he didnt have a bigger ace just A3 turning a 2 pair and I lose half my chips there. 30/60 I have like 1400. Guy raises to 160, mp calls, I over call with 88 (I really should have raised or folded but I guess calling isnt terrible), another terrible player shove allin for like 4k from the small blind. THis player was really bad, so I tanked. If I could but a pair lower than 88 in his range I think I have to call with only 20ish big blinds. I tanked forever and finally called. He had AK I flop good, turn give me an open ended straight draw, turn o hi der Mr. King! GG me. So FTOPS and FTOPS sattys sucked (except the 3 siper sattys I won for $55 each).
WCOOP is coming up really soon. I'm going to try to play the $215 Triple Draw and possibly the $215 HORSE. I'm going to try and look and sell some pieces of myself in these events if people are interested otherwise I'm probably going to try and satty in and if not probably take a shot out of bankroll. I'll probably play some $1/$3 rebuys and some of the $5/$10 guarentees on stars, and railbirds trnys of course. So that's my upcoming plans.
