Done with School + Online Tournies

The plan yesterday after I finished my last final was to come home and sleep for a while, but I couldn't resist the itch and decided to play a ton of satellites and play in some of the big daily tournaments. The day started off pretty average until I luck-boxed my way into the $500 WSOP 50-seat guaranteed satellite next Saturday. One spot paid, and it was a turbo so I was shipping and re-shipping almost every hand. On the final hand, my opponent min-raised on the button, and I decided I had some FE with 9-5ss, so I put him in, and he called with K7dd. Final board of Kx 5h 4d 5d X. That was fun. While that was going on, I satted into the $200 $80k guaranteed tournament.

I couldn't really get a lot going in that one and found myself down to 1400 chips at 75/150. I moved in from 2nd position behind a UTG limper with 22. The limper snap called with AdKx, and the board came Qd Xd Xd X X. I chipped up to 15k at 300/600 when I found AKss unopened on the button. The BB had about 30k and was unspeakably aggressive. I told my roommate that the stack sizes made for a perfect 4-bet. I made it 1700, and he obv raised to 4400. I "tank" shoved, and he called with Q8o. I had him drawing dead on a K44J board.

While this was going on, I found myself HU in a FTP 90-person SNG which I eventually won to get above the red on that site. I was also going deep in the UB $7.5k guaranteed. 3-handed in that one, I raised KK on the button to 7500 (1500/3000) with 120k-ish to start the hand. The SB who was awful and covered me called, and the BB moved in for 60k. I called, and he showed 66. Flop 665 (lmao) and I was down to 45k. I later 4-bet AI from the button with AJdd and was called by 22 and whiffed. 3rd place was good for $800.

Back to the $200, I was really dead from 3-tables on. I found myself with 17k (1k/2k) and made a mistake by moving in with no FE behind a tight raiser up front with AJ, and he called with AQ. Board XXXJX, and I doubled through to 40k. First place was $20k, so I was really trying to play my best. A few hands later, with 18 players remaining, it mucked to an aggressive SB player who had me covered. He raised to 5500, and I found A10hh for an easy 3-bet AI for 38k total. He tank/called with AJ, and I missed. GG me. The flop was AK4, so either way I play it I am going bust. I felt like this was quite a cooler all things considered. The amount of luck that you have to have to win one of these things is unfathomable. I was lucky to get that far but was still itching to FT and cash big. I won $600 in that one, so overall I put together a dece day.

It was good to get some experience playing in a big-buyin online tournament, which, as mentioned in previous blogs, was something that I was going to try and do more of this summer. At one point, I was at the same table as FCP members "whatarunAA" and "MJ_Grinder" and Jon "PearlJammed" Turner (I'm pretty sure this was JT). It is quite a different game when less than 50% of the players spew chips and do not 3-bet light p/f. At one point, I raised 3 consecutive pots on the bubble and got 3-bet AI every time. This is something that you simply don't experience in lower BI tournaments and something that I need to adjust to.

Today is a beautiful day in the city of Bellingham. I woke up and played in a FTP tourney and a UB tourney, which I had no luck in. After that I gathered up the courage to go to the gym and put in a nice solid workout. I started off shooting hoops and I can honestly say I have lost my Graves shooting touch. I was absolutely awful, but I will get it back! I then did some ab stuff and finished with some bi's and tri's which felt good. I just got done cleaning up our apartment and waiting for my brother Pete and my good friend Nate to come over here for a night of drinking watching the NBA game/U.S. Open and maybe dabble in some online tournaments.

The plan for now is basically to just hang out for a little while until classes start back up in a month (summer sesh). I am going home tomorrow for an indefinite period of time and am still debating going down to Vegas to sweat Derek in the ME. I guess I have to make my mind up shortly.

God Bless,

JG