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Joe Czech Republic. Jan 28 2007 05:31. Posts 5987

Last few days things didnt go exactly as expected. After the big losing day, I played quite a lot the very next day. Swinging it up and down several times, being +$400 at one moment only to find myself being -$300 an hour later.
In the end of the day my score stopped at +$67 after almost 7 hours of play. Could have been flipping burgers instead. I also played 1 table of PLO10 for about an hour and made about $25. So PLO10 >>> NL200

Things didnt go well even outside poker that day. I went to my training (i play handball and soccer competitively) and after about 10 minutes I got an ankle injury. Its nothing really serious, but i cant do sports for about a week now which kinda suxx since I have like 3+ trainings in my usual week. And I also planned to go snowboarding on Saturday, because the winter and snow finally came to my country (the weather is strange this winter), but with my injured ankle i was not able to go.

Saturday
So since my plans for Saturday were gone, I decided to use this extra time to play some more poker. But again, things didnt exactly go my way, so after about 5 hours of swinging it up and down i was down $5. I had a break for a few hours and then i played some more in the evening. "Not a wise decision", I thought after a while when I was down to -$650. But finally things started to go my way a bit and soon I was back to zero. Feels kinda good after u were down $650

Then when I was just about to call it a session, this hand came: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/138157. For those who are lazy to look, I hit the nut flush on the turn after a lot of flop action and got paid by a slowplayed overpair of Queens. Since villain had almost 200bb stack and i had him covered, the pot was huge - $784. It was probably the biggest pot I ever won. So after this hand I was about +$400 for the day. I played a few more hands and ended the day +$340. No big score but I was very satisfied after such a sick swingy day.

Tourneys
Besides cash games, I also entered a few tournaments. Worth mentioning is one of them - the $10+$1 rebuy tournament on Stars, 35K GTD. The actual prizepool was about 68K or so, with the first prize of more than 12K. About 1480 entrants. Since I didnt have a lot of money in my Stars account, I wasnt able to play the rebuy period the maniac way, so I took a tight approach and tried to take advantage of those villing to gamble their way up. I managed to double up soon, but only to lose it all back when my AA got cracked by T4s allin preflop. I double rebought for the last money I had on Stars and kept waiting for decent hands. I got almost none in the rest of rebuy period though, so I my stack after at the first break was about 5,500. I didnt take addon (no money + really short stack).

But things went good in the next hour and I somehow managed to get up to above average stack before the 2nd break. I took advantage of the luxury of being able to wait for good hands and was playing basically no hands in the next hour other than a few uncalled raises in late position. The first bubble (180 ppl ITM) was coming and I still had slightly above avg stack. I didnt try to abuse the bubble cuz I had some pretty big stacks behind me and I also didnt think people care about this bubble at all. I wasnt getting any playable hands at that time and didnt feel like going aggro, so I basically kept paying blinds and waiting.

Soon the field was down to 100 players and my stack was slightly below average. Then I picked up KJs in early position and decided to try and steal some - I had a pretty tight image so i thought it was unlikely anyone would call. I pushed allin (my M was about 7). But to my surprise 2 people called - one of them loose bigstack and one shortie. To even bigger surprise, I had them both dominated - the big stack turned over KT and the shortie T7, so I only had to avoid 2 tens and 3 sevens. I managed to avoid those 5 cards and suddenly my stack was really big - 160k, while avg was about 100k. There was like 85 people left at the moment.

The very next hand i picked up AQ and raised it to 3bb. The big stack who just lost to me pushed allin (he was now rather short) and I decided to call. He had 33 and I lost the flip. I was down to about average stack. Few hands later, I picked up AJs in middle position. A loose player before me minraised it and I pushed (my M at that time was againt just about 7, or maybe even less, blinds were huge already). The initial raiser folded, as did everyone else, but a big stack in the small blind, who happened to have QQ. The flop came AKx and I was there going to double up! But, after a moment of joy, the turn came and brought a Queen. River didnt bring a Ten, so I was out.

Ended 75th for a prize of $132. Was feeling pretty bad. Not sure if the AJs hand was a mistake. Anyway I made a net profit of 132-41 = $91. Not bad but it didnt help me feel any better.

Here is the graph of my Saturdays roller coaster session:

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there is a light at the end of the tunnel... (but sometimes the tunnel is long and deep as hell)

Last edit: 28/01/2007 08:16

DustySwedeDude Sweden. Jan 28 2007 05:47. Posts 8623

haha, crazy days. PLO pwns