ended up bubbling the final table of the limit tourny from my last post. not a big deal since i put a huge suckout on some guy w/ AA when i had A8soooooooooooted so i should've have been busted 15th anyways.
i played a little two nights ago. started w/ the 6pm $24 and busted near the end of the first hour w/ AKs vs 99. i cashed in some ftp iron man medals for a $75 tournament token so i also played the 7pm deep stack.
it went well, i played very tight and paid close attention to position. i bounced between 3k and 4k during the first hour. the 2nd hour i managed to double up and was chipping along well into the 3rd hour when i almost tripled up in one hand. this put me about top 5 in chips w/ 60 or so remaining. when the bubble burst at 45 i had just over 50k which was above average. the thing w/ these ftp tournies is the antes are so big that its hard to play tight late and you're forced to steal or pick up hands in order to survive. unfortunately i was unable to do either, i had a steal attempt re-popped and pretty much caught garbage cards. it was a tough spot because i had the the_dean221 (recent p5's triple crown winner) a few to my left and he was re-stealing a very high percentage of the time so in turn the guy on his right had no chance to steal so he started re-stealing. basically i had to fold and prey to pick up a hand while i watched my once 50k stack bleed out to a 24k stack. so @ 1.5k/3k w/ante i pushed my 8bb's all-in utg w/ 22. not a very desirable situation but by this time the massive chip leader (and eventual winner gimmeda1time) had been moved 2 to my left and there was no way i was running a hand past him. so i gambled it up and was called by AJo and lost my flip to go out 24th.
the $24 limit tournament was painful and i busted in that without doing much. i've said it before but the play in this tournament is the absolute worse i've ever seen. i actually think i may be playing to aggresive in this tournament and im probably better off waiting for good hands and pounding them for value. people in this tournament cold call 3-bets like its there job and i've seen so many atroucious beats that it makes my head spin.
the rest of the night i pretty much filled my screen w/ $11 turbo sngs and $20 45 and 90 player sngs. i made a little in the turbos but didn't get anything going in the 45's or 90.
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i played again last night w/ the usual line-up of tournaments.
something crazy happened in the $24 6pm. i had a 6.5k stack at the first break! i never usually accumulate that many chips in the first hour but i kinda got hit w/ the deck and my hands werer holding and my draws were hitting. into the 2nd hour i had built up to close to 13k when i got moved tables. my new table was the avg setup for a tournament at this stage except for one player that was sitting on about 11k two to my left. i immediately looked him up on opr to see whether or not he was gonna be tough. he had only cashed in 2% of his touraments the biggest being a score of $10.
my first priority was to see how he would play me and my stack. i needed to know whether he got the stack from playing like a maniac or if he was going to tighten up and fear the fact that i could bust him. about 5 hands in i raise AKs up from utg+1 and he cold calls in mp and the rest of the table folds. the flop came a pretty dry Q hi w/ no draws so continuation bet about 1/2 the pot and he thinks for a minute and shoves. i instantly folded and got the feeling that he was gonna be a pain in the ass.
over the course of the next couple orbits i raised a few pots in position and he always played with me. he would either donk the flop and id be forced to fold or the pot would end up multi-way and i'd give up after missing.
i was back down to about 9k when the following hand took place. im pretty sure i played this hand poorly.
another 9k stack opens @ 80/160 to 480 from the hijak. he had been fairly active and i think he's got a somewhat wide range here. the short stack sb shoves for about 1400 and i have 88 in the bb. i don't think flat calling is an option because the hijak would be getting over 3-1 on a call and then i would be out of position w/ a tough hand to play post flop. i guess i could fold but it just felt a little weak since im pretty sure 88 is ahead of both their ranges.
so my decision was to raise but this is where i made my mistake. i min-raised the sb shove which ended up being 2600 or so. my thinking at the time was that it would let the hijak know i have a hand and he'd dump a lot of the mediocre hands he'd open with. if he had a big hand im pretty sure he'd shove over the top and i'd be able to get away cheaply.
unfortunately he just called which i found very odd and i started worrying about him trying to conceal a monster hand. the flop came down T96 rainbow giving me a gutter ball in addition to my 8's. w/ the pot sitting at about 6500 and us both having 6400 behind i totally pussed out and checked. i just didn't see him having any hands that im beating. surprisingly he checked behind and i was now pretty sure he had AK so i was going to shove the turn until an Ace hit. i check folded pretty easily and he showed AQo and the sb showed two rags.
after that i still had an ok stack but for some reason being down to 6k after having 13k felt horrible. i chipped back up and to about 8.5k before losing a big race w/ AK vs 99 in which i failed to improve which put me back down to 5k. i was whittled down to 4k @ 200/400 w/ante when i made a bad shove w/ A4o from the CO into mr.2% who was now sitting on 42k and another big stack that had 40k. they both called and i deservedly finished 90th or something like that.
the limit tournament was another side show and i busted about middle of the pack. the 7pm was a bit of a rollercoaster and i was all over the place in the first hour finishing up w/ just under the starting stack. i then 4-bet all-in w/ ATo when the guy to my left re-popped my previous 2 raises. he had QQ and it was good game me.
on the bright side i did ok playing $11 and $22 turbo sngs and finally won a $20 45 person sng which is a nice little confidence builder.
won't play tonight but i think i'll play quite a bit over the weekend.
tg (sorry no proof reading)
