saturday night i sat down around 10pm and played the 10:15pm $26 horse mtt and finished something like 65th/241. i also played the $10 rebuy at 10:30pm and pretty much dinked around the rebuy period and finally doubled up near the end w/ 7k before taking the 2k add-on. after the rebuy period i probably played the nittiest poker of my life and pretty much sat there and folded for the entire 2nd hour minus one or two small pots played. it was pretty much a combo of dead cards and poor position at an aggressive table. after that i picked up KK and doubled up when a really bizarre hand occurred.
utg (good player) has about 11k, i have about 5.8k and sb has about 14k to start the hand and the blinds are 200/400/50a.
utg raises to 1k and i decide to just shove and the sb tanks. i figured he must be pretty strong but was rooting for a call. somehow sb called w/ Q8s????????? and utg folded. so i doubled there and then busted sometime later. i was still playing pretty tight and when mp opened i decided to play my AA a little differently. he raised and i smooth called hoping the sb from the previous hand might do something stupid in the bb. he didn't and we took a J98r flop heads-up. kind of a crappy flop but im not folding here anytime so i check, mp bets my stack and i called. he had KJo and spiked a K on the turn and another J on the river to send me packing.
so after that i put in another 700 hands or so of lhe and maybe a 100 or so at l08 and i think ended up losing $80 or so in lhe and broke even in l08 after jamming with what i thought was the nut high and was shown the real nut high. duh.
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tournament poker stunk last night. here's the recap:
7pm $75 - up and down like a yoyo before busting before the 1st break by c/r all-in w/ middle pair against a button limper that i felt was auto betting the flop when checked to. he had a ragged top pair.
7:15pm $26 limit holdem - busted 2nd hour after being crippled with top two against a set.
8pm $26 - lost close to a 1/3 of my stack on the first hand calling a raise in position w/ 76s, called a bet on a J65 one diamond flop, called another bet on a Kd turn, checked behind on the river and was shown AJo. doubled shortly into the 2nd hour re-stealing w/ ATs from the sb and won a race against 99. eventually got short again and lost a flip w/ 88 vs AQo.
8pm $165 - lost 1/2 my stack early flopping top set TT on a T54r board against a donkey when he c/r me all-in and the turn river came 23 and he scooped it with A4o. then used said donkey as my whipping boy and took almost everything back plus some and really ran over the table for a while. late in the 2nd hour i call a min-raise in the bb w/ 22. flop came T73, i checked and pre-flop raiser checked behind, turn came a 9 and i fired out a bet and he called. river came a 7 and i fired another bullet putting him on AK or AQ and he called w/ QT. now im hovering around w/ 16bb's, last hand of the 2nd hour, utg limps, mp limps, sb completes and i check J8s in the bb. flop comes a beauty 858. sb checks, i check, utg bets 2/3 pot, mp calls, sb calls and with so much already in the pot i just shove instead of getting cute. all fold back to sb who calls with Q8o and i don't catch up.
also played a couple $75 45 person sngs and did nothing in them and ran a couple $33 turbo sngs and had one 3rd place.
after that i put in a little hour long session of 2/4 shlhe and 5/10 lo8 and broke even.
next post will have some goals including the upcoming ftops.
tg
