grinding

actually did some fair amount of grinding over the last weekend playing an extended schedule both friday and saturday nights generally reg'd for everything $33 and below, $10r and below on both stars and tilt between 8pm and 11pm. On saturday i also played some of the hyper turbo's to the $55 - 70k guarantee on stars as well as a sat to the ftp fifty fifty, getting into the stars and not the tilt.

friday was balls busting most everything and going semi deep in two only to get bounced late. saturday was much better and at some points i had 10 tourneys going and new ones popping up, i built stack in almost everything i played so set a overly optimistic goal of making 2 final tables.

i ended up pretty close, busting the daily double B on tilt in 17th and making the final table of the $55 on stars. the final 2 tables of that tourney was pretty intense and i felt the pressure more than i remember ever feeling before but still felt i played really well. when down to 12 handed the field was kinda tough with a couple supernova elites that obv knew their push/fold from sngs, a couple of regs that are solid mid stakes mtt grinders and then one dude that was just horrible but seemed extremely nice in chat. anyways, once we got down to 8 handed one reg started talking chop which i found surprising since the horrible player had the chip lead and i wasn't interested in giving up an edge although there was an over 10k discrepancy between 8th and 1st. anyways, bad chip leader shot down the chop right away saying there was no way he would chop so we played it out. i ended up busting 5th for 3.9k which i was very happy with although i had a legit shot at taking down the 13.5k for first. my two defining hands were a raised pot against the bad player who had defended his bb to my utg open 5 handed (never folded his blind) and i had AJo. flop comes down Q63r and since he had been doing a lot check/raising on flops i just checked it thru, hoping to induce bluffs on the turn. turn is an Ax and he checks again, i value bet and he snap calls. river is a second Qx and thinks for a second before potting it, effectively putting me all-in. really sucked and i had no time bank so didn't really get to deliberate the decision. even though he was bad i think he had to have QX or better like 85% of the time and then maybe a weak AX the other portion. soon after that i shoved A4o from the co w/ 11bb's and ran into AQs.

good boost to my br though and i have some stuff to look forward to soon that i'll detail in the next post.

tg