Happy with recent results
Lots of stuff has been going on in my poker life recently. First let's talk about me getting 4th in the $10+R tournament the other day.
I wanted to wait a couple of days before I wrote about this because all I could think about before now was the hand where I got in with KK vs. J9 and lost. When you're not actually playing the tournament, it's easy to see the payout and say "sweet, you won $3k". But when I'm playing a tournament and I get that close to a huge finish, all I can think about is how I didn't win -- at least for a few days afterward. In other words, it felt like I lost $3k instead of won it. I can only imagine how Allen Cunningham is feeling right now...
On the bright side of things, I won $3k. This is a big addition to my bankroll, which is now close to where is was when I took out $5000 a few months ago to pay for my wife's bionic cat. Did I play well to finish this high in the tourney? I think so. Did I get lucky as hell also? Definitely. Let me tell you about the 3 times I drew out pretty big to win the pot. This doesn't incldue the times I got in against a short stack as a 3:2 or 2:1 dog or whatever, cause I won a bunch of those too.
Drawout #1 -- 19% equity in a 3-way pot) We were barely in the money and all the short stacks had gone from survival mode to double-up mode. A shortie jams from MP for like 6BBs with ATo. I wake up with 55 on the button and jam also. The BB (who I have covered by only a few BBs) has AA and comes in. I river the 5 to knock both players out.
Drawout #2 -- 30% equity heads up) With about 500K chips and with about 25 players left, I raise to 120K (3BBs) in EP with KhKs. The BB, who has about the same number of chips as me, calls. The flop comes Ah4s5s and the BB moves in. I used a bunch of my time bank on this one, because this wasn't a clear fold. It wasn't a clear fold because I had been playing with the BB for a few hours and hed seen her do the ole' stop-and-go 3 or 4 times out of the blinds already. The only time she showed down was with 94o on a 468 flop, which was called by the raiser's KK in that hand. So I end up calling, getting shown 4h5h, and turning the A to win. I realize that my play here is pretty gross, but I sincerely thought she would move with any 4, 5, A, or draw. I also still think I was right to call, and that I happened to run into the stronger part of my opponent's range. Who puts in 1/4 of their chips in preflop with 45s anyway?
Drawout #3 -- 32% equity heads up) We were 6-handed at the final table with blinds of 40k/80k and I had about 750k. All fold to the SB who min-raises, I move in with Ah2h, he calls with KK, I flop the A to suck out. I'm certain this was the right play.
I also took a few beats, but those weren't too interesting. I didn't get hit by the deck with starting hands or anything, but I was able to steal blinds almost with impunity throughout the tournament. And when I got caught with my hand in the cookie jar, I was never against a huge hand. I consider this stuff a form of luck also. Overall I'm happy with how things went and I'm fairly pleased with the result, although the higher finish would have been nice too. Ok, let's move on.
I also managed to hit my goal yesterday of winning 1000 ptbbs at the $0.50/$1.00 NL game ($2000), which means that I moved up to the $1/$2 NL game. So far, I've played about 1600 hands at that level and have lost about $70. Nothing super-interesting about it. I've gotten stacked a couple of times by getting drawn out, which would have made a huge difference in my results up to this point. These games aren't quite as soft as the $0.50/$1.00 games, but they're damn close.
I'm really not upset about the beats I've been taking in this game -- I've been running pretty good for a while and I'm not too surprised to be hitting a rough streak. In one of the drawouts where I got in with A9 vs. 45 on a 469 flop, the guy rivered the 5 and apologized to me. I genuinely didn't care about the fact that he sucked out, I was just happy that he put his money in so bad (he called my allin reraise on the flop). It was weird that I didn't care. Maybe I'm just happy because I'm up $5000 in the last month and a half, maybe I'm becoming more experienced so I've stopped caring about results. I don't know which, but I'm proud of myself either way.
I'm probably going to play some more cash games today. Let's hope things go well.
I wanted to wait a couple of days before I wrote about this because all I could think about before now was the hand where I got in with KK vs. J9 and lost. When you're not actually playing the tournament, it's easy to see the payout and say "sweet, you won $3k". But when I'm playing a tournament and I get that close to a huge finish, all I can think about is how I didn't win -- at least for a few days afterward. In other words, it felt like I lost $3k instead of won it. I can only imagine how Allen Cunningham is feeling right now...
On the bright side of things, I won $3k. This is a big addition to my bankroll, which is now close to where is was when I took out $5000 a few months ago to pay for my wife's bionic cat. Did I play well to finish this high in the tourney? I think so. Did I get lucky as hell also? Definitely. Let me tell you about the 3 times I drew out pretty big to win the pot. This doesn't incldue the times I got in against a short stack as a 3:2 or 2:1 dog or whatever, cause I won a bunch of those too.
Drawout #1 -- 19% equity in a 3-way pot) We were barely in the money and all the short stacks had gone from survival mode to double-up mode. A shortie jams from MP for like 6BBs with ATo. I wake up with 55 on the button and jam also. The BB (who I have covered by only a few BBs) has AA and comes in. I river the 5 to knock both players out.
Drawout #2 -- 30% equity heads up) With about 500K chips and with about 25 players left, I raise to 120K (3BBs) in EP with KhKs. The BB, who has about the same number of chips as me, calls. The flop comes Ah4s5s and the BB moves in. I used a bunch of my time bank on this one, because this wasn't a clear fold. It wasn't a clear fold because I had been playing with the BB for a few hours and hed seen her do the ole' stop-and-go 3 or 4 times out of the blinds already. The only time she showed down was with 94o on a 468 flop, which was called by the raiser's KK in that hand. So I end up calling, getting shown 4h5h, and turning the A to win. I realize that my play here is pretty gross, but I sincerely thought she would move with any 4, 5, A, or draw. I also still think I was right to call, and that I happened to run into the stronger part of my opponent's range. Who puts in 1/4 of their chips in preflop with 45s anyway?
Drawout #3 -- 32% equity heads up) We were 6-handed at the final table with blinds of 40k/80k and I had about 750k. All fold to the SB who min-raises, I move in with Ah2h, he calls with KK, I flop the A to suck out. I'm certain this was the right play.
I also took a few beats, but those weren't too interesting. I didn't get hit by the deck with starting hands or anything, but I was able to steal blinds almost with impunity throughout the tournament. And when I got caught with my hand in the cookie jar, I was never against a huge hand. I consider this stuff a form of luck also. Overall I'm happy with how things went and I'm fairly pleased with the result, although the higher finish would have been nice too. Ok, let's move on.
I also managed to hit my goal yesterday of winning 1000 ptbbs at the $0.50/$1.00 NL game ($2000), which means that I moved up to the $1/$2 NL game. So far, I've played about 1600 hands at that level and have lost about $70. Nothing super-interesting about it. I've gotten stacked a couple of times by getting drawn out, which would have made a huge difference in my results up to this point. These games aren't quite as soft as the $0.50/$1.00 games, but they're damn close.
I'm really not upset about the beats I've been taking in this game -- I've been running pretty good for a while and I'm not too surprised to be hitting a rough streak. In one of the drawouts where I got in with A9 vs. 45 on a 469 flop, the guy rivered the 5 and apologized to me. I genuinely didn't care about the fact that he sucked out, I was just happy that he put his money in so bad (he called my allin reraise on the flop). It was weird that I didn't care. Maybe I'm just happy because I'm up $5000 in the last month and a half, maybe I'm becoming more experienced so I've stopped caring about results. I don't know which, but I'm proud of myself either way.
I'm probably going to play some more cash games today. Let's hope things go well.
posted by the_real_zano at 11:30 AM
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