There wasn't anything too interesting that happened during this weeks tourney. My schedule is basically to play cash games and SnGs during the week. Also some satellites for the Sunday Major tourney. Occasionally, I'll play the 50/50 at 9:30pm(EST) or $28k at 10pm(EST), but for the most part I just play the big Sunday tourney as my week's lone MTT. I think that I'm going to start adding in some more weekend tourneys to my schedule. In particular, the $65k at 8pm(EST) on Saturday or Sunday and the Sunday Mulligan. It's kind of disappointing when I wait a week to play a single tourney and bust early. Playing more mid level buy-in, big payout tourneys will be good practice and hopefully will lead to a good score.
As usual, we started with a 3k stack. Here are my chip counts while I lasted:
Break #1: 6365 (Included a couple of spews that I need to fix.)
Break #2: 6145 (I was card dead for this whole hour.)
Peak During 3rd Hour: 10780
Here is one nice hand where I doubled up through online pro "Tmay420". Poker is easy when flopping the 2nd nuts.
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CardRunnersSeat 1: Tmay420 ($7,655) -
Seat 2: JOSHSIL ($3,451)
Seat 3:
TheJunkie ($5,230)
Seat 4: THEPUSHER1186 ($10,067)
Seat 5: pez102 ($8,150)
Seat 6: Rivertranced ($4,191)
Seat 7: Short Bus Ryder ($10,905)
Seat 8: zanshin1 ($11,746) -
Seat 9: WildcatAJH ($12,308) -
PRE-FLOP:WildcatAJH
posts small blind $170Tmay420
posts BIG blind $340Dealt To: TheJunkie
ANTE Tmay420 ($25)
ANTE JOSHSIL ($25)
ANTE TheJunkie ($25)
ANTE THEPUSHER1186 ($25)
ANTE pez102 ($25)
ANTE Rivertranced ($25)
ANTE Short Bus Ryder ($25)
ANTE zanshin1 ($25)
ANTE WildcatAJH ($25)
FOLD JOSHSILCALL TheJunkie ($340)
FOLD THEPUSHER1186FOLD pez102FOLD RivertrancedFOLD Short Bus RyderFOLD zanshin1FOLD WildcatAJHCHECK Tmay420FLOP:Pot: $1075
CHECK Tmay420CHECK TheJunkieTURN:Pot: $1075
CHECK Tmay420BET TheJunkie ($340)
RAISE Tmay420 ($1200)
CALL TheJunkie ($860)
RIVER:Pot: $3475
BET Tmay420 ($2000)
RAISE TheJunkie ($3665)
CALL Tmay420 ($1665)
SHOWDOWN: TheJunkie: MUCK Tmay420TheJunkie collected $10805 from main pot with a full house, Queens full of EightsSUMMARY:Total pot: $10
Rake: $0
Final Board: Seat 1: Tmay420 big blind mucked [9h Tc] - a straight, Queen high - Net Gain/Loss: ($-5230)
Seat 2: JOSHSIL folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-25)
Seat 3: TheJunkie showed [Qc Qs] and won 10,805 with a full house, Queens full of Eights - Net Gain/Loss: ($5575)
Seat 4: THEPUSHER1186 folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-25)
Seat 5: pez102 folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-25)
Seat 6: Rivertranced folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-25)
Seat 7: Short Bus Ryder folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-25)
Seat 8: zanshin1 button folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-25)
Seat 9: WildcatAJH small blind folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-195)
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CardRunnersHand#2 aka The Bust Out Hand:Here is another situation, which is becoming far too common for me, where I bust prematurely while calling all-in for an "obvious" race. Sometimes I let my emotions get the best of me. I am really trying to work on that. What you can't see in the hand history is that this guy and the small blind had been re-popping me a few times the last couple of orbits. Before I was dealt a hand on the button, I said to myself that if I get a hand worth raising that I would be playing for stacks pre-flop if one of these guys re-popped me. Sure enough it happened. Being that he had such a weak hand, I believe my thinking wasn't completely flawed. I just wish I had a bigger stick to take to the fight.
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CardRunnersSeat 1: Hari_Jizou ($7,353)
Seat 2: JOSHSIL ($6,031)
Seat 3:
TheJunkie ($6,810) -
Seat 4: THEPUSHER1186 ($13,102) -
Seat 5: pez102 ($9,630) -
Seat 6: Rivertranced ($4,766)
Seat 7: Short Bus Ryder ($7,355)
Seat 8: zanshin1 ($13,036)
Seat 9: WildcatAJH ($12,848)
PRE-FLOP:THEPUSHER1186
posts small blind $200pez102
posts BIG blind $400Dealt To: TheJunkie
ANTE Hari_Jizou ($50)
ANTE JOSHSIL ($50)
ANTE TheJunkie ($50)
ANTE THEPUSHER1186 ($50)
ANTE pez102 ($50)
ANTE Rivertranced ($50)
ANTE Short Bus Ryder ($50)
ANTE zanshin1 ($50)
ANTE WildcatAJH ($50)
FOLD RivertrancedFOLD Short Bus RyderFOLD zanshin1FOLD WildcatAJHFOLD Hari_JizouFOLD JOSHSILRAISE TheJunkie ($1000)
FOLD THEPUSHER1186RAISE pez102 ($9580)
CALL TheJunkie ($5760)
UNCALLED pez102 ($2820)
FLOP:Pot: $14170
TURN:Pot: $14170
RIVER:Pot: $14170
SHOWDOWN: pez102:
TheJunkie: pez102 collected $14170 from main pot with a straight, Ace highSUMMARY:Total pot: $14
Rake: $0
Final Board: Seat 1: Hari_Jizou folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-50)
Seat 2: JOSHSIL folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-50)
Seat 3: TheJunkie button showed [2s 2d] and lost with a straight, King high - Net Gain/Loss: ($-6810)
Seat 4: THEPUSHER1186 small blind folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-250)
Seat 5: pez102 big blind showed [Ad 9d] and won 14,170 with a straight, Ace high - Net Gain/Loss: ($7360)
Seat 6: Rivertranced folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-50)
Seat 7: Short Bus Ryder folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-50)
Seat 8: zanshin1 folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-50)
Seat 9: WildcatAJH folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-50)
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on the button. Your first thought: "Nice, I have ace crackers in the best position." Then you get the following situation: blinds are 10/20, UTG limps, MP and MP+1 limp as well and the cutoff raises to 100. ..........You have a great position here preflop, but after the flop you are in the worst relative position. ..........But look what happens when you call here. Once you call, the other players will be getting good odds, and you will see that, in most cases, the rest of the limpers will call as well. In this situation the big blind calls, as well as MP and MP+1. The flop shows 
, so it's not a bad flop. If the cutoff has 
you can stack him here if, for example, a 
shows up on the turn. But what happens? Everyone often checks to the initial raiser, after whom you are next to act, with 3 players still to act behind you after the initial raiser fired out a C-Bet. 
