What a beautiful game...

    SO I had a good night last night. Played a few MTT's at Stars. Cashes in 2. One was an $8T. Made $22 in that. The other was a marathon $2 1r-1a. Over 4000 entrants and it went looong. almost 6 hours till the time I busted out in 68th. I know it was a re-buy, but the play was really, well not tight, but non committal. Lots of limping/calling, but nobody was aggressive enough to get it all in. I sat at three different tables throughout the tourney and it seemed that nearly everyone was so passive that nobody wanted to be the one raising/shoving, bur everyone loved to just call along. It was soul crushingly slow. I finally ran out of patience and started getting overly aggressive. Worked well for a while and I had enough of a stack I thought I could cool it for a bit. With that in mind this hand happened to knock me out. had I been aggressive pre-flop like I should have been I doubt the end result would have been the same, but ah well. I was getting bored with it anyways...


PokerStars - $2+$0.20|6000/12000 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BTN): 262,548.00
SB: 685,786.00
BB: 278,972.00
UTG: 140,000.00
UTG+1: 384,776.00
MP: 537,523.00
MP+1: 396,586.00
CO: 334,609.00

Hero posts ante 1,500.00, SB posts ante 1,500.00, BB posts ante 1,500.00, UTG posts ante 1,500.00, UTG+1 posts ante 1,500.00, MP posts ante 1,500.00, MP+1 posts ante 1,500.00, CO posts ante 1,500.00, SB posts SB 6,000.00, BB posts BB 12,000.00

Pre Flop: (30000.00) Hero has Jd Jh

fold, UTG+1 raises to 27,599.00, fold, fold, CO calls 27,599.00, Hero calls 27,599.00, SB calls 21,599.00, fold

Flop: (134396.00, 4 players) 9h 5d 8s
SB checks, UTG+1 checks, CO checks, Hero bets 72,000.00, SB raises to 350,396.00, fold, fold, Hero calls 161,449.00 and is all-in

Turn: (601294.00, 2 players) 5c

River: (601294.00, 2 players) Td

SB shows 8d 8c (Full House, Eights full of Fives) (PreFlop 19%, Flop 87%, Turn 95%)
Hero shows Jd Jh (Two Pair, Jacks and Fives) (PreFlop 81%, Flop 13%, Turn 5%)
SB wins 601,294.00

     So after that I called it night. This evening I played my regular Saturday game at the Legion. I hadn't been to these for a while, but I decided to start going back. I did start them after all. $25 buy-in, 3K starting stack, 20 min blinds. We usually get 8-10 players and tonights game was a full 10 player table.

     I've been feeling really good about my game as of late and I took that to the table with me tonight. Took my time getting into it, as the game usually starts out with alot of 'family pots' (everyone at the table lips in, nobody folds to a raise lol). During the third level I turned a K high straight against two betting opponents. One led out, the other raised, I re-raised, the leader folded and the initial raiser shoved. I called and she turned up 2 pair. With that double up I took the chiplead and never looked back. After just under 4 hours of play I was heads-up with my good friend Donald. He plays as Skrawn300 on FTP and Stars. Anyways, i had a major chiplead over him, that was soon evened out when he called my 3-bet shove of 88 with Q9. He flopped a straight and we got back it even in chips. After swapping blinds for a few hands he shoved from the button. I woke up with AQ and made the call. He showed 88. I hit the Ace on the flop and that ended it. 

     I've been on such a poker rush the past few days, and it feels good! My rungood has been runnin' good and I've been making a lot of good decisions on the felt. Tomorrow is going to be a good day. There is a $150 buy-in live game at a bar in the next town up the highway and myself, my dad and Donald are all going up. 20K stack, 20 min blinds starting @ 50/100 and top 6 guaranteed paid. The expected turnout is at least 50 players. Gonna be a great day. Super Bowl, poker and drinks. Win or lose, it will be good. 

     So with that, I will say have a great weekend everyone! I'll update again tomorrow night if it's not too late when I get home.