Finally

I won the 11pm 10k guarantee on bodog this past Thurs. night ($200 buyin)...I think there was about an 1800 dollar overlay as only 41 players sooted up! It is a lot easier to win these things win you card rack it at the final table. That win was good for $4k...then last night I played in the 15k guarantee 100 dollar buyin that started at 8:30 pm while i was playing the live game down the street. With 4 people left I had a significant chip lead (1st paid 4500). Unfortunately, the guy who had the 2nd biggest stack once down to 4 made a standard raise from the button when i was BB. I flatted and flopped an oesd and 4spades to a weak flush. I bet, he raised, I shoved having him comfortable covered and having 2 draws at 15outs. He had pocket KK and I whiffed. This left me as a shorty and I eventually busted 3rd for 1785 payout. I sucked out this entire tournament to get there (it was nice to be on the other side for a change). Hope I can maintain this heater. All for now.
JD

short post before I take down the donkey wsop seat

Tonight I will play for the WSOP seat given away for the BoDog blogger tourney finale. I got 8th in the BBT3 TOC and 6th in the 2k freeroll. I am moving up and final tabled both. I think as long as I don't get coolered during a big hand, tonight we ride!!! Plenty of good competition including the host himself and and NewinNov who has run better than anyone the entire series. No noticable super easy chips...but I feel it coming. Will post later...got to get some rest.
JD

8th in TOC = 46th in TOC

Couldn't get it done in the TOC tourney yesterday. Managed to be in 2nd place with about 25 of us left...but just couldn't close the deal. Made 3 really big mistakes. 1 actually helped me and 2 really killed me. In the one that helped me, I check raised a whiffed flop vs. Pirate Lawyer in a spot where I really shouldn't have been comitting chips. He folded after tanking (hopefully giving me credit for last weeks big game hand where I folded a flopped set to his flopped broadway when he reraised my lead on the turn). I am fairly sure he had me beat, but this gave me some chips. A short while later he and I jousted again when I coolered him with KK vs his 10 10 all in pre which got me a nice stack. I bled a few chips somewhere in there when Astin raised UTG 3.5x and it folded to me in bb with AKcc. I had him covered in chips over 4:1 and he would have been comitted with his 2K start of hand stack no matter what size raise I made so I just shoved. He had Aces of course and I could not get the miracle suckout. I was still in decent shape and managed to amass the stack that put me in 2nd behind oossuuu754. I then got involved with him in a hand that really played out poorly for me and I should have known better after watching the hand he eliminated Hoy with. It folded to me in sb with A3sooted. I just completed, then he raised 3x. I reraised and he flatted. Flop came KQJ and I check raised him...he shoves and I fold only leaving myself about 7.5k in chips. So I dropped from 2nd to 5th in a BvB hand. I thought I could take the pot with both of my raises giving him credit for not wanting to butt onions one of the only stacks that could hurt him...but I was wrong. Obviously overthought the hand and it really crushed me. The other hand I totally screwed up was against Astin. It folds to me in midposition and I have QQ. Astin is next to act and cold calls. Everyone else folds. Flop came out something like 772 rainbow and I check hoping to make a check raise since he had position. The turn was the Ace of Spades and I led to see if I was good. He shoves allin over the top and I have to fold. I should have just taken it down on the flop probably and this caused more chip spew. From that hand on, the only playable hand I got was 88 which I just called with UTG as one of the shorties. To most players at this level, this call from that position as a shorty looks like AA hoping to get raised for what is left of their stack...so I was hoping for folds to the BB, where I would shove any flop and pray. Instead, Katiemother (who was the only other player I had covered by this point) shoves allin. The bb folds and I call. 88 < J9 and I am crippled. I get lucky open shoving the button with next to no chips left while holding K7o by getting called by oossuuu being cute and calling with 72o. This gets me back to a playable 7.5k in chips but nothing good from there. I bust open shoving the button holding A6o and Scottc overshoves from sb with AK. No miracle and I bow out 8th. I definitely lack the late stage game for success and need lots of work. I keep seeing people shove and call with crap at critical stages to give them ammo they need to run...and I just can't bring myself to do it. Oh well, better luck Tuesday maybe. CMitch got bad beated a lot at the final table. But the beat oossuuu put on Hoy and the beat Loretta (one of the eventual winners) put on Tuscaloosa Johnny hurt me to watch. I didn't have any big suckouts...but also didn't have anyone suckout too bad on me. It just wasn't my day. Tuesday I promise.
JD

No Love

Outlasted Wonka but couldn't best Tuscaloosa John to take down the 2k prize for May BBT3 win. With Wonka out and TJ and I essentially tied as the points bubble approached (both as shorties), he pushed with K5 and got called by A5...king and 5 on flop and he doubled. This left me sucking hind tit with 2.5 bb left. It folds to me in small blind and I shove my paltry stack in with KJo and get called by Miami Don's A9off. He holds and I am left only to pray TJ goes out in the next 3 places. No love for me as TJ rightly folds to the points. I go into depression mode and sleep on the couch for the next 12 hours until my buddy Brad comes over & tells me to snap out of my funk and get my baggies on. We catch some glassy waste to chest high waves and all is right with the world again. Tuesday night, I played the Bodonkey entering the tourney 21st on the points list (needing 18th to secure a spot at the 18man shootout for the wsop seat). I figured I needed at least 10th and possibly even 9th place finish to have a chance. I took one big chance early getting it all in on the flop where I had 4 to a flush and also an open ended straight draw against ScottMc's AA with the Ace to the backdoor flush draw. I got there on the river and built a nice stack. From there I proceeded to race away with people I had covered at least 2:1 with somewhat marginal holdings and won each time to take the tournament chip lead. I get dealt AA under the gun after I had just open raised 3 hands in a row. I lead out with a pot sized raise expecting someone to call bs or at least race after the terrible starting showdown hands I had (e.g. 45sooted vs AKoff allin pre with my 45 hitting a 5 to take it down). Instead everyone folded. That was the end of my heater run though as I raised mp with Ak and got called by Bayne in the bb. Flop came jack high and he check raised me. Being the donk off chipmaster I am, I shove allin over the top of him and he had pocket hooks for the flopped set which unnecessarily quaded up on the turn. From there I had to slow down as I needed points. I raised Ak from ep again and had to fold to Gary Carson's allin shove from the BB. Raise AQ about 3 hands later and again have to fold to someone's allin overshove. This happens 2 more times with AQ and 1 mor time with AK and I am now in bad shape chip wise. I hold on to bust 8th and squeek in to the top 18 for the chance at a seat. GL me. BBT3 TOC Saturday = 46 players with 2 getting 12k prize and 3rd and 4th getting 2k. BBT3 winner take all Sunday for 2k (approx 130 players some of which will no show). Then Tuesday is 18 player shootout at Bodog for the 12k prize 2-5th also with some prize money. Going to need to not get unlucky early, then get lucky middle, then not get unlucky late to have a chance.
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JD