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I had another deep run in the monday main til I went a threw it away with K5 trying to squeeze a button raise. I ended up 7th in that I believe.
I won the 12:30 BH two days ago and i've just gone and won it again tonight - loving this tournament at the minute.
However i'm even more pleased about tonights win because of the mannor in which I did it.
I came into the final table with 6bb - one of the shortstacks. The chip leader at the time had near enough 50bb and had the rest of us covered by a huge amount. It was clear the other two relative shortstacks were keen to ladder as they thought the tournament was a full gone conclusion... they tightened up massively, so I took full advantage by throwing my 6bb around. I doubled up when my pocket 4s held v chip leader, however lost it 2 hands later after the shortstack limped on the button. I had J4os and had no intention of squeezing as I was short and villain only had 6bb and wasnt folding. Flop came KK4 and I felt obliged to check/call any bet. He had K9.
So i went down to 5bb 6 handed and was the shortstack. I tripled up a couple of hands later shoving A4 and getting two calls. Flop of A high sealed the pot v 33. And when chip leader shoved on my bb from sb with A8 and I saw AQs I got up to around 25bb where I could throw my weight around a bit.
I bullied the table as the other players were still playing passive poker and managed to get the slight chip lead. After another guy knocked a few people out we were HU.
He was a bit tricky to play HU really. He limped every SB... never raised so it was hard to define any range at all. He got the chip lead 70/30 and bullied me a bit. However it was clear that each flop we saw he wouldnt put in a single chip unless he had hit in some manor... even in position. That made his game easier to work on and after I DU AJ v KQ all in pre I managed to squeeze out the win.
Pleased with that... one of my best wins. Not in terms of money but in terms of my all round play.
I've just gone and won the 12:30 BH for the 3rd time this week. Think thats 3/5 entries I've won it. That's a bit crazy that!
Pleased with how I played again.
Here's my favourite hand of the night for you all...
Although those that accuse me of running well at the minute can take a look at this hand which happened 3 handed on the FT.
Yuk.
But I reigned it in and pulled out the win. What a tournament eh?? If only I could play like this in every tournament. I found myself entering a tournament earlier and I was just clicking buttons! But for some reason this tournament has brought out the best in me this week. Lets hope it continues.
It sucks.
This is just one of many hands that has destroyed me tonight.
Just ran like absolute cr@p tonight.
Just wanted to say well done on a good month, long may it continue and great news on the job front.
Brilliant stuff.
Went £200 down pretty quick. One hand I tried something which was incidentally shown on the show. They commended my play... just too bad villain had probably one of the two hands which could call me.
I logged in later and had changed that -200 into +100 (which was nice). I was going to leave however on the hand I was going to leave I pick up the Q high flush draw on the flop and got it all in facing 52 (also the flush draw). He ended up hitting his pair however and I lost about 100 quid. Decided id play one more orbit and got caught on a 774 flop with A4 against AA....
So all that work to get back into profit and I threw it away within about 5 minutes. -100 for the day.
Also bricked every tournament I entered.
Sigh.
Played the main - crashed out
Played the mini - crashed out set of 10s to a guy who couldnt fold aces... which he binked the 3rd on the river.
Played the deepstack - crashed out (see above hand)
Played the £1000 speed rebuy - Ended up finishing 2nd which was nice. Lost Q10s to A4s HU all in pre as we were both pretty shallow - perhaps I could have been more patient though.
Played the £2000 rebuy - Ended up finishing 3rd. Was running quite well and looked good to get to HU. Then I tried to squeeze the small stack on a 456 flop thinking there was no way he could have part of the board. He managed to find a call with a bare 5... and that was me done.
Cash today has also been crazy. Went down £200 early doors, however found a nice table where I could squeeze value and got it all back.
So im in a bit of profit today but im sure it could have been a whole lot more if I had stayed a bit more patient in the rebuys. Dohhhhhhhh.
Not trying to rain on the parade but seems like you've been running super hot at cash recently (all the hands above involve ALOT of rungood), so just be careful for when things turn and you're on the wrong end of the coolers.
Again, I'm not having a go, from what I can see he's played pretty much every hand posted really well, but as ya know, playing really well doesn't always mean you're gonna win (or win big), but if you look at the big wins...
1) Peel 78s and flop a flush which is pretty tasty but to do it against top set and a top set that doesn't manage to house up - that's mega rungood.
2) Having someone shove 44 on 662 flop when you have KK (after you've 4bet)
3) Flopping top set when villian flops 2pr
4) AK - turning one of your 6 outs which happens to be one of the few cards in the deck that also means the villian will stack off.
5) Rivering the nut FH which gives villian a smaller FH
6) Rivering the FH which gives villian top trips, top kicker
These are all massive forms of rungood. Alot of times he's gonna win most of these hands with the hand he has but the rungood comes in someone having a really good 2nd best hand just as you have a really really good hand and so winning the lot. Again, I wasn't having a go, just kinda saying that if all the above can happen FOR you, then it will all happen AGAINST you too at some point... he'll be the one with top set v flopped flush etc etc.
Sure he knows all this anyway.
Maybe it comes across on here that im running super well cause i dont post a lot of the coolers that I lose - I simply dont like looking at them. Theres nothing I could do so i move on.
And I do know that im playing with fire when it comes to my BR but ive been up and down since i first started. I've been playing with an aggressive BR since I joined sky. I deposited £20 and started by entering £2.20/£3.30 tournaments alongside a few £5.50 tournaments when my BR increased slightly. I'm not naive enough to know variance cant hit me. It has... and im sure it will again. I've been through some horrid weeks on my time on sky but i keep plugging through believing I can push through it.
But hey ho... at the minute im doing my thing and trying to get max value from my winning hands while trying to be more cautious not playing the nuts. Thats poker after all is it not?
Cheers Jac... was that the rebuy last night?
Played the rebuy again tonight.
You know that feeling when you have played for 5 hours, are sitting comfortably in 1st/4 and then something like this happens...
Totally gutted as there is minimal doubt that winning this race gives me such an advantage to take the £600 up top.
Urrggghhh.
I'm guessing here but I reckon that in about 30 all-in showdown hands we've had, you've won about 27 of them with god knows how many coolers and suckouts....
Or maybe I'm just cr@p and bitter lol.
GL anyway. Not that you need it
What am i to do?
Sigh.
Looks like time is running out to satellite in. Dont suppose anyone wants to stake me at all? Lol
I literally just saw my C4P go into my account. Just scrolling through the forum and BAM £170 hits my account. I enjoyed that. Goes straight on tonights main and a few other tournies although part of me thinks I should just use it to enter SPT.