feed from phexac blog 2008-09-30T21:24:05+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 phexac http://phexac.liquidpoker.net So over the past week 10 days I have moved up to NL400 and managed to qualify for the $1050 WCOOP event, as was my goal (albeit I did it though a sat rather than direct FPP buyin). The tourney was going quite well, despite a pretty rough start where I lost pots with KK and two instances of AK, dropping me down to 1/2 starting stack. Unfortunately, I busted right out of the money with 66 vs JJ blind button battle. In retrospect, that might have been a mistake since the guy seemed quite tight, but I had so little information on him that I could not be sure as to its reliability. Oh well. For most part, I think I played well. NL400 has been going quite well. It is quite impressive, the kind of money you can make at this level considering it's far from high stakes online. I also played a $109 MTT on Monday, and had a deep run in that, busting in 33rd when my opponent flopped a set with his 55 vs my 99. Got about $300 for my trouble, which is all right, but somewhat frustrating considering I came within a shouting distance of making another FT. In the coming weeks I'm going to try to play 1-2 MTTs every other day. I tend to do well in them overall, but that's not the main reason. The best thing for me I noticed is that playing in an MTT forces me to spend certain time playing, making it easier to meet my number of hands per day goals. So all in all, these past few days have been nicely profitable despite the 2 frustrating tourney runs, just missing the money in the 1k WCOOP event and just missing the FT in the $109. I will spend about $500 and what ever FPPs I get this week trying to qualify for the WCOOP Main Event. It's not much, but let's see what happens. Playing in that event would be very nice since it's going to be soft due to all the publicity it gets, and even barely cashing in it is a respectable tourney score. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 phexac http://phexac.liquidpoker.net Down 5 buyins. Every single hand, the opponent got there with 2-4 outs. Once again, this is why trapping does not work: http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=525046 One time, just don't let them get there: http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=525048 PLZ don't get there? (Does anyone see a fold there somewhere?) http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=525050 What if I said "plz" twice, will a station ever lose? http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=525053 I didn't lose much...but seriously...wtf http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=525056 There are also so many smaller hands where I put all money in good, either by betting or calling, but they hit their outs by river. And let's not forget AA vs AK hand... So annoying. Of course, I also appreciate any comments you guys have on the hands here. If you think I misplayed something, I'd definitely want to know. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 phexac http://phexac.liquidpoker.net So the world seems set on not letting me get the necessary hands in to reach my FPP goal. Today my dog was sick, and I spent a lot of time cleaning up after him and washing stuff, so only got about 500 hands in. Those hands went well though, and I was able to net almost 3 buyins. I have been focusing on taking advantage of regulars at these stakes by exploiting their propensity to play too many tables, not pay attention, and have hard notions about how a certain ranges of hands are played. Most important of all, I just did not run into any coolers or bad beats today. It's nice when that happens ;) Here are some fun hands from today: I am a station: http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=519732 This guy was handing out moneys: http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=519733 Then I misclicked away a buyin and considered breaking something but decided against it in the end: http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=519738 Pretty much all the big hands were pretty standard. I tried to get something going by picking on other regulars, but they just kept folding, so that didn't come to much. I am still trying to get the necessary FPP for the $1050 event, but it is going to be quite difficult. At the end of the day, I can afford to pay to play since I will make that money up in a week and a half or so of 5,400 FPP Sunday million sats once those are running again, but I really would prefer to buy in without putting up any of my own money. It's still doable, but it will take a lot of work considering I only play 6 tables of 6-max at a time and do not intend to add any more.