I've had an incredible amount of non poker related stuff going on this month, which has really hampered my playing hours, but i have managed to put in three days in a row - woohoo!
Sunday was an interesting one. I made it deep in a lot of the majors, but ended up cashing only twice, and for rather paltry sums considering the level of buy ins i was playing. I ended up being about $1.3k down, which while is perfectly fine with my bankroll, it is pretty annoying considering i had been on a few day losing streak already this month.
Myself and a friend have an arrangement at the moment that any tourny over $100 we swap 25% with each other. Well on sunday he suggested me up it to 33.33% for the majors. I agreed, and it was one of the best poker decision I've made in a while. Mr_Noisy went on to win the Dise major for 25k euros ($38k) which earned me a nice little $12.6k.
Yesterday was another "so near but yet so far" kind of day. I ended up final tabling three tournies, all on ongame, and only making $3k.
9th in the 50 rebuy was the sickening one. With 13 left, the button moved all in on my bb i snapped QQ he showed AK and hit, had i held i would have had a third of the chips in play with 12 left...
The interesting thing about that is that my QQ against his range there plays ridiculously well, so i was unlucky to be only 55% vs his AK. Damn flippaments.
I came 4th in the 12k, nothing really to say about that one, and i also came 2nd in the Turbo shorthanded $100 for $2.5k or so.
I really love that shorthanded turbo, if i make it deep into the tourny i really feel i have a massive edge. That may sound strange given i would normally complain about crapshooty tournaments taking away from my edge, but because the blinds are so big i find an edge from elsewhere.
These tournaments are all about assigning pushing and calling ranges of your opponents and making the correct shove/fold or call. The edge is there to be seen when at the final table you have players folding with over 2/3 of their stack in blind.
I got to the final table of the same tourny tonight, with a little bit of luck along the way, but as soon as i got there i knew i had a huge chance to win it. I just had to hope no one woke up with a monster behind me when i pushed, because i knew i wouldn't get looked up with a hand like K8 even if they did have 1/3 of their stack in blind.
As it happened i managed to bully my way to heads up, then it was all over when he shoved his QT into my AK and failed to outrun me. Ship the $4.4k!
I'm off for 5days or so from tomorrow - champions league final, then the (anti) climax to the SPL. Friday sees another trip to St Andrews for a mate's stag do, then my sister is coming to visit on the Sunday for a couple of days - bus busy busy.
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