So I finally had a nice day in AC. Sat at 2/5 NL for awhile and didn't play a hand for 2 orbits. A lot of people were limp-folding or calling raises then folding to a c-bet. so I got 95h OTB and raised 3 limpers to $30 (awful i know) BB calls, UTG calls 2 folds. flop came 5 5 4 rainbow which made me happy. BB donk bet $35 and UTG called. I went to $135 BB folds UTG calls. Turn 5. UTG checks, I bet 200 (he had about 260 in front, i had him covered) he tanks for a few minutes then pushes, i call. He tables 77 and i am a happy donk.
Then I proceeded to win a lot of small pots and cashed out for a profit of about 1100. Then I played the 7:15 tourney. This was the worst played tourney I have ever seen. I got no hands for the first 6 levels but played a lot of small pots early, hit a few flops and got a nice stack at the 2nd break of about 35k (10k to start). then I got some big hands and amassed a nice stack and then got card-dead but still came to the Final Table about an average stack. Well got down to 3 and i worked a very nice chop as the short stack and got just about 2nd place money for 2100. I'm an awesome negotiator. then went home and almost ran out of gas because i'm an idiot.
Also I'm moving on saturday which sucks. But its a sweet place with a nice backyard for the dog. Still coming along on the running thing and am going to do 9 miles tomorrow.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Borgata
So made my first AC trip since vegas and wasn't in the mood to play cash games so decided to play the 50k guarantee at the Borgata. Pretty good structure and there were 45 tables, 45 spots paid, and 1st was 34k.
No really tricky hands. Was card dead most of the 5.5 hours I played and saw TT twice and no pair over that. Got down to last 8 tables but was riding a short stack most of the time and then ran TT into JJ when I pushed pre with about 5 BB. 34k would have been nice. Oh well. Good structure so that tourney will definitely be hearing from me again.
Had a nice run today. Did 5 miles then walked for about 5 minutes before doing some sprints. I did 15 second sprints followed by 45 seconds of walking. I did about 15 and then was dead from the combination of the 2. Starting to get mentally and physically back together from Vegas but still behind where I was when i left
No really tricky hands. Was card dead most of the 5.5 hours I played and saw TT twice and no pair over that. Got down to last 8 tables but was riding a short stack most of the time and then ran TT into JJ when I pushed pre with about 5 BB. 34k would have been nice. Oh well. Good structure so that tourney will definitely be hearing from me again.
Had a nice run today. Did 5 miles then walked for about 5 minutes before doing some sprints. I did 15 second sprints followed by 45 seconds of walking. I did about 15 and then was dead from the combination of the 2. Starting to get mentally and physically back together from Vegas but still behind where I was when i left
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Time Off
So after getting beat up a bit in vegas, I took a few weeks off from poker and will get it back going again tomorrow. The tone was set about 3 hours into my trip. I had built my initial $500 stack to about 1450 playing 2/5 NL, when I saw 68 clubs on the button. 2 limpers to me, I raise to $25, BB calls UTG calls. BB is only player that has me covered. Flop is 4 7 9 all clubs. Bingo, flush with OESFD. checked to me, I bet $55, BB raises to 150, UTG folds, I raise to 450, BB calls. He bets $500, I push he calls with a set of 7's. River is a 9 and butso dwal.
So the carnage continues for the next fews days and I am down 4k, almost my whole vegas roll. I am leaving monday afternoon and checked out sunday morning to play a 30 hour session or so until my flight left. Played 2/5 and was close to even after a swingy session of about 16 hours. Then saw a 2/4 mixed game was opening up and figured I'd donk around for a few hours and have some fun. It turned out to be pretty much all dealers from the mgm and me. We played dealer calls for one round at a time, and pretty much all games were played. ALthough it was 2/4, most pots were capped (straddled and then 5 raises on top) preflop 7-8 ways. awesome. so much fun and the staff there was awesome and really cool to play with. I ended up playing this game for about 10 hours it was so much fun and won about $400. (100 BB) Then it was breaking and decided to play in there morning $65 tourney just to kill time before my flight.
It was a push anything awful structure and I got to the FT as the chip leader with less then 10 BB. Long story short, I end up taking it down for about 1700 to limit my losses a bit. All in all a fun trip, although did not compare to last year.
As for running been slacking a bit since I got back, but righted the ship the past 2 days and ran 5 miles and 3 miles respectively. Ran the 3 today in 26:36, so not too bad. Hope to run 9 on sunday and get myself back in full training mode.
So the carnage continues for the next fews days and I am down 4k, almost my whole vegas roll. I am leaving monday afternoon and checked out sunday morning to play a 30 hour session or so until my flight left. Played 2/5 and was close to even after a swingy session of about 16 hours. Then saw a 2/4 mixed game was opening up and figured I'd donk around for a few hours and have some fun. It turned out to be pretty much all dealers from the mgm and me. We played dealer calls for one round at a time, and pretty much all games were played. ALthough it was 2/4, most pots were capped (straddled and then 5 raises on top) preflop 7-8 ways. awesome. so much fun and the staff there was awesome and really cool to play with. I ended up playing this game for about 10 hours it was so much fun and won about $400. (100 BB) Then it was breaking and decided to play in there morning $65 tourney just to kill time before my flight.
It was a push anything awful structure and I got to the FT as the chip leader with less then 10 BB. Long story short, I end up taking it down for about 1700 to limit my losses a bit. All in all a fun trip, although did not compare to last year.
As for running been slacking a bit since I got back, but righted the ship the past 2 days and ran 5 miles and 3 miles respectively. Ran the 3 today in 26:36, so not too bad. Hope to run 9 on sunday and get myself back in full training mode.
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