Big Day Online

No class on Tuesdays/Thursdays means either being very productive with homework and reading and stuff or just playing a lot of online. Monday night I played some $.5/$1 NL and was less than successful, losing 4 buy-ins.

But I woke up yesterday (Tuesday) and was itchy to play the slate of scheduled tournaments. I had intentions of getting some stuff done (working out, hitting balls, and doing some reading) but actually never made it out of my apartment all day, LOL! I played in the 12pm $10k guaranteed and ran my 5000 starting stack up to 15000 but lost a big pot against an absolutely awful player when he limp/called half his stack with A-10 when I held KK, and he flopped a A. Like two hands later I got KK AIPF against QQ and lost. I bled and bled and eventually busted.

I also played in some $50 sng's, which is something I have been doing pretty regularly lately, as it is less than 2% of my online BR and the play is not a whole lot better than the $20's and $30's. If I remember correctly, I cashed in 4 of 6, winning 2 with one 2nd and one 3rd for a nice little profit.

I continued to play MTT's and had a trend of accumulating a lot of chips and then falling short of any significant paydays. I played in the $30 deep stack (which I have won before) and absolutely pwned. I got 3-handed with around 45k with the chipleader to my right with around 50k. I then went on to win approximately 7 pots in a row with no showdown until the big hand came up. I raised on the button with AA, SB (at this point I had him slightly covered) called. Flop came Q 6 4 rainbow, and he checked. I led 2/3 pot and he min-raised. I then made it like 20k more, and he insta-4-bet with QJ. I held and then won the tourney the very next hand when my A8 held against villain's KQ.

I also signed up for the 5pm $10 $10k guaranteed, a great tournament as there were only 730 entrants (= lots of overlay). I ran super hot when I played a pot with this absolute donk. I had around 5k in chips to start the hand and had a pretty solid image. There were two limpers (100/200), and I decided to raise A8o from the button to 925. I got one caller, the station to my right. The flop came Q J 10, rainbow. Check, check. Turn 5, he checked again and I led 1200ish into a 2400. He called. River 8, and he again checked (having me covered). I decided that my hand may have looked like AK and that an AI bet might be able to move him off a J or a 10. I was pretty sure he didn't have a Q. I decided to move in, and he called pretty quickly. I was about to close the table when he tabled A5o!!! Weeeeeeeeeee.......

A couple hands later, I had J10cc in the BB; The only player at the table who had me covered limped from the button. I checked, flop came 9s 8s 7c. I checked, he bet pot at 500, and I made it 1400. He snap called. The turn was the Qc, and I bet 2200 into a 3300, and he min-raised. I "tanked" then shipped it, and he called with Q6ss. The river bricked out, and I was up to like 22k. I steadily chipped up until we got down to 2 tables and I could not get anything going. The blinds were a ridiculous 3k/6k. I lost a 120k pot with QQ against KJ AIPF and found myself down to 45k. I then moved in from the SB with A9, and the BB called with AJcc. Flop came Kc 10c x, turn x, river 9d!!

I entered the FT 5th in chips with 105k. I steadily chipped up until we got 4-handed when I re-shipped 10-10 for 120k into a min-raise who somehow found KK. Board came 10xxxx, and I won. Then, 3-handed, the bust-hand came up. I had 220k with the other stacks being around 400k each. The button was a maniac who I had played several big pots with up until that point. He/she min-raised the button to 20k, and I called from the BB with A4o. Flop came AsKxQs. I checked, he bet 19k, and I opted to just call trying to control the pot. The turn was the interesting 4s. At this point, I am going to stack off here every time against this player. I checked again, and he bet pot at 60ishk, and I moved in for my last 120k, and he snap called with Ks-6x. The river was the gross 5s, and I was sent to the rail in 3rd for a grand total of...$900 or so.

Overall, I ended up around $1600 for the day, which was a nice score. I feel very confident playing the mid-buyin MTT's and will continue to do so until my bankroll is big enough to consistently play the $100 MTT's. I played in two of them today with no success. I got it in once with KK against AK against J10 in a big pot and lost. Overall, I feel like I haven't played enough of them to get an accurate feel for my EV in these. But the play is definitely a lot better as there is usually only 1 or 2 players that will spew at any given table as opposed to about 3 or 4 in the lower BI tourneys. I hope to have more success in the upcoming months and hopefully have a big score sometime soon. I feel so confident in my tourney game right now that it would be stupid of me to ignore the bigger buy-in tourneys.

That is all that I have. I probably won't be playing very much for the rest of the week and into the weekend. I have a test on Friday and am going down to Seattle on Saturday to play golf with a friend and then Sunday I will be coming back up to play golf with another friend who is prepping for the high school state tournament next week.

That said, I gotta go do some quality studying (maybe I will get the itch later tonight but no promises).

God Bless,

JG