WSOP Qualifier Tourneys
When I woke up today, I decided to play on Stars to try to win more W$. Things didn't go very well.
In the first $16 double-shootout, I got in preflop with 66 vs. AKo vs. AKo and lost to the A on the turn.
In the second $16 double-shootout, I got in with A3o vs. 88 on the 337 flop for about 3/4 of the chips on the table and lost to the 8 on the turn.
In the $16+R satellite to the $320 WSOP qualifier, I lost with this hand: UTG, who is loose but pretty decent, limps for 200. All fold, I make it 800 from the SB with AdQd, BB folds, UTG calls. Flop comes Jh9cX. I check, UTG bets 600, I make it 2400 leaving myself with about 4200. UTG calls. Turn comes Qh. I'm pretty sure I can't do anything but move in here, so that's what I did. He has the 8hTh and I'm drawing dead. I ended up in 20th and there were only 6 seats paid out.
I also played some $0.50/$1.00 NLH and won a little bit. I actually took a couple of shitty beats in this game but still ended up winning. I got in with AA vs. QJ on a KQx board and the guy hit the J on the turn. Then I got in with 46 vs. AT (no flush draw) on a 467 board and ended up splitting with a 45678 board. The guy with the AT moved in for almost twice the pot on the flop. It wasn't too bad of a move since I had raised a couple of limpers preflop, meaning that the 467 board is unlikely to have helped me. If I can just win one of these pots It'd have been a pretty good win for the day.
I'm thinking about trying to work on my NL cash game skills. They can be kind of boring at times, but I guess multi-tabling can cure that. This is one of the few types of poker games that I haven't made at least some serious effort to become good at. That and triple-draw lowball. NLH cash games aren't too different from deep-stack tournament situations. And I think I play pretty well in those scenarios. Maybe it's something that I'll work on when I have the time.
One other thing I want to do is find a place that spreads 5-Draw. Pokespoker spreads it, but there's rarely a game going that's above $1/$2 and below $10/$20. Since I'd like to move up in the game, I'll have to take it elsewhere for a while. If any readers know where I can find a prolific 5-Draw community, please let me know.
We also held another home game tourney last night. I ended up in 6th/7. It kinda sucked. I was doing pretty well and had chipped up to about 30K (started with 20K) in the first two or three levels. Then I ended up getting a ridiculous pot together with 8T vs. A9 on a J9x board and not getting there, which took almost 2/3 of my chips. After that I never really got anything going again. I finally allin-reraised an active player from the BB with KhTh and ran into his AhKs. My dad ended up winning the whole thing, so I'm probably never going to hear the end of it from him.
Now I think I need to clean my house up a little bit -- it's still a disaster from some of the festivities that were there yesterday (my brother's fiancee's bridal shower, my poker game, boozing afterwards with Rik). I seem to be running kind of bad anyway.
In the first $16 double-shootout, I got in preflop with 66 vs. AKo vs. AKo and lost to the A on the turn.
In the second $16 double-shootout, I got in with A3o vs. 88 on the 337 flop for about 3/4 of the chips on the table and lost to the 8 on the turn.
In the $16+R satellite to the $320 WSOP qualifier, I lost with this hand: UTG, who is loose but pretty decent, limps for 200. All fold, I make it 800 from the SB with AdQd, BB folds, UTG calls. Flop comes Jh9cX. I check, UTG bets 600, I make it 2400 leaving myself with about 4200. UTG calls. Turn comes Qh. I'm pretty sure I can't do anything but move in here, so that's what I did. He has the 8hTh and I'm drawing dead. I ended up in 20th and there were only 6 seats paid out.
I also played some $0.50/$1.00 NLH and won a little bit. I actually took a couple of shitty beats in this game but still ended up winning. I got in with AA vs. QJ on a KQx board and the guy hit the J on the turn. Then I got in with 46 vs. AT (no flush draw) on a 467 board and ended up splitting with a 45678 board. The guy with the AT moved in for almost twice the pot on the flop. It wasn't too bad of a move since I had raised a couple of limpers preflop, meaning that the 467 board is unlikely to have helped me. If I can just win one of these pots It'd have been a pretty good win for the day.
I'm thinking about trying to work on my NL cash game skills. They can be kind of boring at times, but I guess multi-tabling can cure that. This is one of the few types of poker games that I haven't made at least some serious effort to become good at. That and triple-draw lowball. NLH cash games aren't too different from deep-stack tournament situations. And I think I play pretty well in those scenarios. Maybe it's something that I'll work on when I have the time.
One other thing I want to do is find a place that spreads 5-Draw. Pokespoker spreads it, but there's rarely a game going that's above $1/$2 and below $10/$20. Since I'd like to move up in the game, I'll have to take it elsewhere for a while. If any readers know where I can find a prolific 5-Draw community, please let me know.
We also held another home game tourney last night. I ended up in 6th/7. It kinda sucked. I was doing pretty well and had chipped up to about 30K (started with 20K) in the first two or three levels. Then I ended up getting a ridiculous pot together with 8T vs. A9 on a J9x board and not getting there, which took almost 2/3 of my chips. After that I never really got anything going again. I finally allin-reraised an active player from the BB with KhTh and ran into his AhKs. My dad ended up winning the whole thing, so I'm probably never going to hear the end of it from him.
Now I think I need to clean my house up a little bit -- it's still a disaster from some of the festivities that were there yesterday (my brother's fiancee's bridal shower, my poker game, boozing afterwards with Rik). I seem to be running kind of bad anyway.
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