Went deep again in another medium sized mtt. It was the $26 buyin 14k gtd on fulltilt. I played pretty well throughout the whole tournament and got deep again, but alas my AK was no match for AJ AIPF on a QQ5 6 board. If I dodge a 3 outer there ive got a 250k stack and am top 3 in chips going into the FT. That was pretty sick.
Not much you can do there. One thing I am happy about though is that I didnt take myself out of this mtt, I played well throughout the whole thing and didnt have any breakdowns. So I'm improving in that department. Maybe next time I'll get some hands deep in the MTT and be able to mow over the Final Table and Take one down. In fact i'm sure of it, if I keep on playing the way I am playing right now.... i'm bound to get extremely lucky one of these times at the FT. Then its payday.
Probably taking tomorrow off and coming back sunday, possibly play a satellite to the sunday million and finally get the sunday million monkey off of my back. L8er
Friday, March 30, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
My Ego gets the best of me... deep
tonights results: 2 mtt's on stars
$50+5 331 entries, bust out early when I get it allin on the flop with A9 vs QJ on 9xx flop.
then the $5 rebuy 25k gtd 1915 entries, this one really hurt me.
I played great for 5 hours and was the chipleader for a period deep in the mtt... I never left the top 5 spots either when we got down to 100 players. I was playing awesome and making moves for pots that didnt belong to me, I didnt even get AA once in the mtt, KK once but that lost to 66. Just AK a few times that held a few times.
Anyway, we get down to 30 players and I am 4th in chips with 650k and the cl directly to my right. Hes a crazy ass mofo donkey, donkbetting ace high in numerous pots, and getting allin with ridicilous hands. then these two hands come up and send me to the rail... these 2 hands in 2 minutes out of 5+ hours I lose my focus, stopped paying attention to detail, and let my gaurd down.
TT utg, i raise to 50k blinds 10k/20k. button cold calls and the bb donkey calls. doesn't surprise me, these players are extremely weak. flop J43, bb checks, and I figure I'll take the safe route and check also, see what develops. button bets 80k and bb raises to 200k... i fold.
that may sound like the right play to most, but i think i played it horribly. I obviously have to make a move for the pot, continuation bet and defend my pf raise, now im trapped faced to call a bet and a check raise. and the bb could have anything here, at best a jack... and even thats a small percentage on his range. Any pair 22-99, AK-A2, and 'EVERY OTHER" hand possible... I kid you not, he was that bad. even 72, 73, 82 etc...
but whatever, I should have just got over it, get my composure back, get back to playing good solid poker, and move on over to the next hand. Instead I guess im still tilting, there are numerous distractions bothering me, I get impatient and go bust in a stupid hand vs same donk.
my bb donkey sb. folds to sb who min raises to 40k and I have 44. I obviously should have called and played a flop and not get into trouble with chip leader who is uber aggressive... NOPE, reraise 1/2 my chips and he instacalls. checks to me T93 flop and I shove w/out even thinking it through. He instcalls 77, 7 turn, gg me.
these little things deep in tourneys where I lose my focus for a split second.... are possibly costing me thousands of dollars. It makes me sick. I can live with taking a bad beat to send me to the rail... but not when I know it was my own damm mistakes and loss of focus.
this has gotten way longer than expected. Well just gotta get back on the horse because tomorrow's another day.
$50+5 331 entries, bust out early when I get it allin on the flop with A9 vs QJ on 9xx flop.
then the $5 rebuy 25k gtd 1915 entries, this one really hurt me.
I played great for 5 hours and was the chipleader for a period deep in the mtt... I never left the top 5 spots either when we got down to 100 players. I was playing awesome and making moves for pots that didnt belong to me, I didnt even get AA once in the mtt, KK once but that lost to 66. Just AK a few times that held a few times.
Anyway, we get down to 30 players and I am 4th in chips with 650k and the cl directly to my right. Hes a crazy ass mofo donkey, donkbetting ace high in numerous pots, and getting allin with ridicilous hands. then these two hands come up and send me to the rail... these 2 hands in 2 minutes out of 5+ hours I lose my focus, stopped paying attention to detail, and let my gaurd down.
TT utg, i raise to 50k blinds 10k/20k. button cold calls and the bb donkey calls. doesn't surprise me, these players are extremely weak. flop J43, bb checks, and I figure I'll take the safe route and check also, see what develops. button bets 80k and bb raises to 200k... i fold.
that may sound like the right play to most, but i think i played it horribly. I obviously have to make a move for the pot, continuation bet and defend my pf raise, now im trapped faced to call a bet and a check raise. and the bb could have anything here, at best a jack... and even thats a small percentage on his range. Any pair 22-99, AK-A2, and 'EVERY OTHER" hand possible... I kid you not, he was that bad. even 72, 73, 82 etc...
but whatever, I should have just got over it, get my composure back, get back to playing good solid poker, and move on over to the next hand. Instead I guess im still tilting, there are numerous distractions bothering me, I get impatient and go bust in a stupid hand vs same donk.
my bb donkey sb. folds to sb who min raises to 40k and I have 44. I obviously should have called and played a flop and not get into trouble with chip leader who is uber aggressive... NOPE, reraise 1/2 my chips and he instacalls. checks to me T93 flop and I shove w/out even thinking it through. He instcalls 77, 7 turn, gg me.
these little things deep in tourneys where I lose my focus for a split second.... are possibly costing me thousands of dollars. It makes me sick. I can live with taking a bad beat to send me to the rail... but not when I know it was my own damm mistakes and loss of focus.
this has gotten way longer than expected. Well just gotta get back on the horse because tomorrow's another day.
A New Beginning
I guess an introduction would be appropiate to begin with. Name is Dominc, 22 years old, been playing poker for 3 years now. Mainly nlhe, but I have just started to get myself familiar with other games of poker, lhe, lots of 2-7 low-ball, and some lo8. I currently play limits between .50/1 and 1/2 nl, and 2/4 limit through 5/10, only once dipping my feet into a 10/20 2-7 game on stars.
So why do I deserve to have my own poker blog, what have I done that makes me worthy? I'll tell you right now the best is yet to come. If all goes as planned, I will be killing mtt's beginning today and for the month of april. Thats the short term goal for now.
I have had small amounts of success in my road to becoming a semi-pro poker player thus far. Aside from going broke twice (well pretty damm close anyway), I have clearly been a winning poker player over the last 3 years. Most recently I have turn a $600 bankroll in December into at its highest peak, a $7,000 BR in early March. Some of it form cash games, but most of it from the big mtt score. Which is why I have decided that I am going to dedicate April to playing mtt's. for more results you can look me up... bigchipshi on stars/party, and stylinhawyn on fulltilt. I believe I have just over 20k of total winnings (all 3 sites) according to thepokerdb.com
Up until recently, i dedicated all of my time to cash games (where I will admit there is more money to be made vs mtt's), but I have endured a recent downswing that has hurt my BR by about 30%. So i kind of want to get away from all of that and focus on another aspect of the game, a game that I feel I will be more successful at personally. I feel like I have a greater edge for my playing style in a tournament structured game vs cash games.
So I will be updating this blog at least every day to every other day, with results and my thoughts of what happened. I am hoping that this will motivate me to play hard and finally make something of my poker career. I want to go on a sick rush in April and prove to everybody and myself, that I have what it takes to be a top notch poker player.
My goals are to final table at least 3-5 $20-$70 or $3 - $5 rebuy mtt's. With at least 2 scores of $2,000 plus. I'm aiming very high I know... but what have I got to lose for shooting big?
l8er
So why do I deserve to have my own poker blog, what have I done that makes me worthy? I'll tell you right now the best is yet to come. If all goes as planned, I will be killing mtt's beginning today and for the month of april. Thats the short term goal for now.
I have had small amounts of success in my road to becoming a semi-pro poker player thus far. Aside from going broke twice (well pretty damm close anyway), I have clearly been a winning poker player over the last 3 years. Most recently I have turn a $600 bankroll in December into at its highest peak, a $7,000 BR in early March. Some of it form cash games, but most of it from the big mtt score. Which is why I have decided that I am going to dedicate April to playing mtt's. for more results you can look me up... bigchipshi on stars/party, and stylinhawyn on fulltilt. I believe I have just over 20k of total winnings (all 3 sites) according to thepokerdb.com
Up until recently, i dedicated all of my time to cash games (where I will admit there is more money to be made vs mtt's), but I have endured a recent downswing that has hurt my BR by about 30%. So i kind of want to get away from all of that and focus on another aspect of the game, a game that I feel I will be more successful at personally. I feel like I have a greater edge for my playing style in a tournament structured game vs cash games.
So I will be updating this blog at least every day to every other day, with results and my thoughts of what happened. I am hoping that this will motivate me to play hard and finally make something of my poker career. I want to go on a sick rush in April and prove to everybody and myself, that I have what it takes to be a top notch poker player.
My goals are to final table at least 3-5 $20-$70 or $3 - $5 rebuy mtt's. With at least 2 scores of $2,000 plus. I'm aiming very high I know... but what have I got to lose for shooting big?
l8er
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