random mtt results

Played 4mtts yesterday am after work. Played my favorite mtt at 10 am on bodog (15+1 buy for 5000 chips and 5/10 starting blinds that progress slowly). This tourney sometimes guarantees $1500 sometimes $2000. It used to have a nice overlay every time, but lately has been close to meeting the guarantee. The reason this is my favorite is because with this stack and those blinds, you can play a lot of different starting hands early that can hit big and be disguised from all different positions...and you will be paid off (people love to stack off with top pair top kicker and weak draws). When you whiff, it is easy release at a relatively small hit to your stack. The other thing that is nice is that when you get to the final table, it is not unusual for at least 7 of the 9 left to have at least 15bb = still lots of room to play poker. This being said, I bubbled 19th yesterday with 18 paying (but I got my money in good trying to get a big stack>>>if you ain't first your last). Also played the 11am bodog 1700 guarantee for 9+1 buyin and busted fairly early just after the first break. Played the 10am $26 buyin FTP 10K? guar. Got double my starting stack early, then raised 3x utg with JJ. A guy had just been moved to our table with a custom avatar named David Bradley. I had never heard of him, but having a custom avatar, I checked the lobby to see if he was listed in red (FTP pro). Sure enough he was. Anyway, he reraises my 360chip raise allin for his 3200 chip stack. It folds around to me, and here is my genious thought process...no way a pro who knows he is better than the field throws his entire stack in pre unless he is >70% favorite over expected $26 token tourney calling hands of any pp >77 AKs AKo AQs (being generous on assumtion given we are so early in tourn.). So I figure he must have KK or AA here and fully be expecting a call from a weaker hand salivating over his buyin bounty and the T-shirt. So what do I do after this analysis...I call like he should expect this salivating (J)erkoff (D)onkey to do. My genious rationale is "I still have about 2600 chips left if I lose, which is just under the starting stack and no different than having been card dead the first 35minutes." Anyway, the cards are exposed and he has AKo...I flop the unneeded set...get the bounty and T-shirt...have a 9K stack with average at 3.8K...and proceed to donk off my stack over the next 30 minutes. Such is the life of a net losing poker player, OPR bottom dweller, call station, etc. The fourth tourney I played was a rebuy on Pokerstars. I almost never play that site, but had some money there and was in the mood for a rebuy. It was an $8 rebuy and add-on with a 20k guarantee (ended up with 33k prize pool). 1068 entrants. I initially just bought in once and doubled on the second hand to 3k. Later in the first orbit, I doubled again by winning a 3 way pot to get to 6k. A couple of orbits later I gamble with AQs against a guy that had me covered and he stacks me with KK. I double rebuy and go on an absolute heater. By the time the rebuy period ends, I am at 31K and am in 5th place. I opt not to rebuy as I am already chip leader at my table and don't see any major advantage of moving my stack up less than 10% by moving my net buyin up over 30%. Anyway, I go dead the second hour and finish at the next break with roughly the same stack of 31k. 3rd hour brings better luck and I hang between 10th and 25th for the majority of the next hour. 180 spots paid and the bubble passes when I get down to an M of 4. I shove over a cutoff's raise (me on button) for my last 42k chips with QJo and it folds around. I was 54 of 56 going in to this hand. Very next hand I get 88 cutoff and shove over mp's limp to take blinds antes and his limp. Next hand I get 10 10. Big stack raises from ep and it folds to me in the hijack. I decide to gamble and shove. He calls with AKo and I win the flip. So in the course of 3 hands I go from 54 of 56 to 14 of 54. Table gets active and I blind down to M of 6. I open for a steal from the button and get flatted by sb and bb folds. I have Q 10 and flop comes J 10 4 rainbow. SB checks and I bet 1/2 my stack...sb tanks and shoves. I call comitted and am ahead with my 10s (sb has AKo). Turn is a King and I am out 44th. Shiatt. Till next time.
JD

FINALLY...i have figured it out

It isn't variance after all...I suck! Got shortstacked in the silver freeroll by shoving AhKh in to 22 (22 raised for 3rd time in last 4hands and i shoved allin over the top...he calls and I do not improve). Hang on till close to the bubble and finally shove allin pre with 77...get called by sb 88...catch a miracle 7 on the flop...and get resucked by the river 8. That was all fairly standard. But I really figured out how bad I must be in the live game $50 rebuy and add on. 20 people showed and tourney payed 4 spots (1st $1350 i think). I double buyin for 10k in chips and get that to about 13k over the first 3 orbits. Then pick up KK and make a standard raise utg...mp player cold calls and button calls. Flop comes 962 rainbow and I lead for 1/2 pot...mp player raises 3x my bet...i push allin and he tanks then calls and shows JJ. I hold and he rebuys. I now sit with about 17k chips. Lose about 1200 of those floating with a J high flop when i raised 88 preflop shortly thereafter. Then comes the big hand for me. JJ player from earlier limps..cutoff limps...sb completes and i check my option from the bb with 83off. Flop 883. Sb checks...I check...JJ player from before opens for pot size bet...cutoff folds...sb folds..I raise..he minreraises and I shove. He again tanks and then calls. He tables 86o and I just have to dodge the 2 outer (or chop fromm runner runner paired over card). Turn is a Jack and river is an Ace. He says "fuck this bs" and does not rebuy. Sooo now I have about 21K in chips when the average is at about 8k. I finish at the break with 19k and add on for another 5k chips. Win a few pots after the break and get up to my highwater mark of about 29k. I then get involved in a big pot with the host of the tournament. He had 18k to start the hand. He raises from utg+1 and I call from cutoff with 9d10d. Flop comes AdJc7h. He bets half pot and I call. The turn is the Kd. He leads for about 1/3 of the pot and I shove allin with the flush and gutterball draw. He has to call off his last 9500 chips and tanks. I could have just called to see if I could catch, but I know this guy to be good enough that I thought he would fold anything short of a set or higher flush and better gutter ball draw there. He called and tabled AQo and I blanked the river. Now I am one of the shorter stacks and go card dead. I blind down to 7.5k in chips right when the blinds increase to 500/1000. I get AQo in the BB and shove over a limb by the button and complete by the sb. Very next hand I get 99 in the sb and shove over 1 limper from mp. BB and limper fold and I am up to 11.5k chips (average now about 18k). Very next hand I am on the button and see a TAG player limp from utg 3 folds...a limp...and a fold. I raise to 3500 from the button hoping they read as a move from postion. Sb and BB fold and both limpers cold call me. Flop comes J92 with 2 spades (i have no spade). I put my last 8k of chips in the pot when they check it to me. Utg folds but mp player calls and shows 99 for flopped set. I do not improve and I am out. So despite starting with a massive chip lead, I cannot close. I pretty much got bitchslapped around during my big card drought between the rebuy period and the big pot for 36K chips that i lost on the draw to 12 outs with only 1 card to come. Time to lick my wounds and figure out a better game plan. Hopefully things go better tomorrow night in the Bodog Blogger tourney. Still dangerously close to the 18man bubble in points and could really use a top 5 finish to get some breathing room (not to mention the free T$109 so graciously given to the top 5 finishers by Bodog). May your Aces hold and races win as long as I am nowhere near.

JD

$50 rebuy and addon live tourney and ftp silver freeroll

I will be playing in a $50 rebuy and add on tourney at 3 this afternoon at the local friday live game guy's house (Greg's) just down the road today. I called him last night to see if he had wireless so I could play in the FTP silver freeroll that will start shortly after. Looks like it is a go as well. Maybe I can lucksack that like I lucksacked the Bronze last month. The bronze freeroll had about 1500 people registered...looks like the silve has about 900. Of course the key will be getting seated at a starting table full (or mostly full) of no shows. This is how I amassed the huge stack by the 2nd break in the bronze. I called Greg last night also to warn him to hide the money from the rebuy somewhere away from the chips. Apparently, the NCIS (North Carolina Investigative Services?) decided to be overachievers and arrest 5 guys playing poker in Morehead City, NC a couple of days ago. They said officers had spotted gambling equipment (notably poker tables) in an adjoining office of a new pub that opened in the area, and decided to get a search warrant. They broke in on 5 guys between the ages of 42 and 75 playing poker and issued misdemeanor citations to all 5. Asshats should be focusing their attention more on the crystal meth problems in the area than the poker "problem." Anyhow, they said they confiscated the $7,000 that was in play (sounds like a pretty juicy game). Anyway, hopefully I'll have something good to report back tonight...if I can get some chips late again by picking off this Blonkey. Time to crack me some Acesholes.

JD

bodonkey 12th and no traction in skillz

I got pushed around quite a bit in the Bodonkey Tuesday as I had to fold to reraise after reraise. I had taken the early chiplead when my KK pot sized preflop raise during the first level was called by the sb. Flop came QJ7 and sb led for 140. I called to keep pot control given the deep stack nature of the tourney (in case villian had qj or 77). Turn is a king and the board has 4 suits. He leads for 480...i raise to 1160 and he instashoves for his remaing chips. I call with top set praying he doesn't have A 10 and he tables Q6off??? Anyway, I got pushed around despite my stack after that till i finally took a stand on pokahdave's button raise 3x pre in to an unopened flop... i shove with 10 10 and dave had AA. I lose and am now a short stack (1800 i think). I build back up a decent stack and lose 1/5 stack calling shorty allin from bb...then 1/4 calling another shorty allin next time i am bb. Calling with pot odds against short stack range is not paying off. Oh well. I build back up and then double Blinders (Whatsthanutz) when he min raised utg while being a shorty himself. I jammed him with my AQ and his KK held for a double (obv. lethal mistake). He has owned me in this tourney. I held on long enough to make the points then doubled my short stack by shoving A9o and getting all folds...next hand i shove JJ and get called by small blind's 77...turn is a 7 and IGH in 12th place. Moved up to 13th on the Leaderboard, but certainly not safe. Skillz i made it about to the top 3rd but never got a big enough stack to contend. Had a small chat back and forth with Lucko21 who I know is 10x the poker player I could ever dream of becoming but i couldn't resist. Essence of chat after i went to the river in a razz hand to double him when he obv. had me beat...
Lucko: lol...terrible
JD: I tried to Lucko you
Lucko: no you tried to donkey me
JD: six in one hand, half dozen the other

all for now.
JD

Bodog WSOP Qualifier

Stop by Bodog tonight and play in the WSOP Blogger Tournament Series Qualifier Event. Why, you may ask. Well, Bodog is sponsoring an 18 week series (that is currently about halfway through) that will have 18 bloggers qualify for the tournament series final on June 10th. The winner gets the coveted 12K prize package to the WSOP. As if that wasn't enough, the field each week usually consists of about 50 people. Check out the site link for the points breakdown description. The buyin each week is only $10+1 and the top 5 finishers receive a bonus $109 in tourney dollars credited to their account to be used to register in other Bodog tourneys. As an added bonus, the first 5 "bubble" finishers (first five not to make the money payout spots) get T$11 credited to their account to be used to buy in to the tourney for the next week. For all the details and registration instructions...see the link above. Remember, it is not too late to join the contest. The current leader in the series got enough points in just 3 events that he would probably have made the top 18 just from those 3 tourney finishes. Have fun and good luck.

JD

bodonkey

long story short- AA < 8d7d Schellnutt vs. Goldenhammer. allin on the turn w/2 diamonds on board.
next time the bodonkey is mine.

JD

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bodonkey time

Time for some bodonkey. Time is getting short and JD sits on the bubble. Need a big score for some padding. CU there!