June 09: best month so far

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Joe Czech Republic. Jul 02 2009 16:18. Posts 5987

Overview

Ok, June 2009 is over and it was the best month of my poker "career" so far (and quite by far too)!

I spent June partly in Vegas playing WSOP and partly in Barcelona playing WPT Spanish Championship, with only a couple days inbetween spent at home when I needed to play the last couple of matches of my futsal team (futsal = football played on a smaller pitch 5vs5 for those who dont know).

Vegas

Ok, so in Vegas, I played these 7 WSOP events:
3.6. Event 09 - NLHE 6-max $1500
6.6. Event 13 - NLHE $2500
8.6. Event 19 - Six-handed $2500
10.6. Event 22 - Shoot-out $1500
12.6. Event 24 - NLHE $1500 215. $2,839
10.6. Event 28 - NLHE $1500 24. $18,688
16.6. Event 34 - NLHE $1500

Made money in 2 of them, which is good I think, especially when one of them was a pretty deep finish (24th out of 2,640). Invested $11k, won $21.5k, which means ROI of about 96%, quite nice imo.

Futsal

Then I went back home to play the last 2 futsal matches. We won both of them and secured 3rd place finish in our league, which was our historical best finish so far, so I was pretty happy about it, eventhough it didnt mean anything since only top 2 advance to the higher league. Edit: I just got this hot news, that we actually advanced to the higher league due to some system changes or something, yay, great month!

During those couple days I managed to score another solid finish in tournament poker - I won a package in the WSOP Super-satellite at PS worth $12,000 or (since I wasnt really going back there) simply $12,000 in cash.

Barcelona

Few days later I was on my way to Barcelona, to play the WPT Spanish Championship 2009. It was a €5,300 NLHE freezeout and I expected it to have quite a soft field. I also expected about 260-300 players. I was quite right about the first one, but totally wrong about the second - only 172 players registered for this tournament. Still, a pretty solid prize of €277,000 was waiting for the winner.

Anyways, the tournament went quite normal from the beginning, I wasnt really getting many big hands, but I had quite enough soft spots at my tables to be able to at least slightly increase my starting chipstack, which meant, that after 2 days of playing I was still in, eventhough with quite a shortstack. Didnt mind it at all given I didnt have to win a single big showdown up to that point (lost 2 allins vs shorties though, once hugely ahead, once slightly).

Then in the beginning of day 3 I finally used all the saved up luck from previous days to pull out this major suckout: an agressive Danish player with above avg. stack raised from the CO to 2.5bb, I found QJs in the SB and shipped it allin for about 20bb hoping to take it down uncontested or flip for it if called. But the big blind with about avg. stack announced allin too and I knew I wasnt going to be good. Even worse, the original raiser snapped the allin, oh well. My QJs vs BB's AK, vs. CO's AA! Tough one you say? Well, the flop came AK7, giving my opponents top two and top set and me the dreaded gutshot! I and couple players from other tables who rooted for me started shouting "Ten, ten, ten" in a rhytmic way and the river fullfilled my wish, easy game

Couple hands after that I got KK utg and raised, got a reraise from the button and the big blind cold 4-bet instantly. It was an older french guy that I didnt know but it was quite scary, but obviously I shipped it in hoping to see QQ. Button folded and french guy showed 99, wow. I held and suddenly had a big stack. Couple hands and steals/small pots later I was the overall chipleader with about 23 people left. I wanted to abuse the bubble but didnt quite get much of a chance since it was over sooner than I realised it. At least I was the one who busted it

Then my super heater ended and with 12 left I was down to about the average stack. Later though, I managed to win a coinflip vs. a shortstack + some small pots against few weaker players, so in the end when the final table bubble busted, I had the chiplead back.

At the final table though I was super card dead, so I didnt really play any interesting hands at all, simply either a steal worked or did not, other than that I was just waiting around and folding, until we were 5 handed and I was already the shortest stack, so when Randall raised from utg and I found 77 in the SB, I didnt quite hesitate much to ship my 23 big blinds in. Got called quite fast, but was in a good shape flipping vs. his AQ. Unfortunately for me the flop came KJT and turned and river bricked and I was out in the 5th place.

Anyways, I won the prize of €50,400 (only 68% was mine), which is also a new Czech record in biggest cash in live tournaments ranking

Summary

Ok, lets get to the summary:
This month, I made a total profit of $74,857 (of which almost $50k is profit from live tournaments, yay), which is by far my best month ever! I am really happy about it since I wasnt doing very good this year so far and was way below my expectations. After this month I am back in the ok-ish range as far as yearly progress goes. I am obviously pretty happy about this month

Edit: I made some photos while travelling, if anyone wants to see them, they are published here:

WSOP 2009 photos

WPT Spanish Championship photos

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Last edit: 02/07/2009 17:52

DustySwedeDude Sweden. Jul 02 2009 16:35. Posts 8623

Yea gratz man. Nice score!

bane United States. Jul 02 2009 17:00. Posts 2379

congrats on a great month!

Chewits United Kingdom. Jul 02 2009 17:15. Posts 2539

siiiiick. Well done!

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Cooper83 . Jul 02 2009 17:39. Posts 288

Congrats, sounds like you had an amazing month.

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Canada. Jul 02 2009 17:41. Posts 20070

congrats joe! a lot of people seem to have a lot of success playing live tournies, you should prob play more live tournies, your edge is prob enormous

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nolan Ireland. Jul 02 2009 17:45. Posts 6205

nice write up

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