About two weeks ago or so I chopped the Nightly 70k gtd on poker stars for $9,600. I had come home from a long 5-10nl grind at the casino and decided to fire up a few Mtts since I rarely get to bed before 3am anyway. I ended up cruising right along and had a monster chiplead with about 22 ppl left.
I went into the Final table with about 1.3million and made one ill timed bluff along with two lost races and found myself 2 of 4. These guys really wanted to chop as they were all losing players and I agreed to look at the numbers, knowing that I wont chop unless I put my sick negotiating skills to use and work out a deal in my favor. After we saw the numbers I told the chipleader if he gave me $500 off his total I would oblige with the chop and he said yes rather quickly. I was pretty happy getting more than 2nd place money with four left. Hopefully I can keep playing well and bink another one soon, these mtts are brutal sometimes tho. I had a lot of close calls a few Sundays ago to end up losing every 60-40 for big stacks deep.
I have been playing a loooot of live cash games in the past 6 weeks with amazing results. Making over $70/hr and just crushing the 5-10nl game at the local dogtrack. Ive decided to just continue to play more live rather than online mttsngs because my hourly is a lot better and the online sngs have gotten much tougher. Its not that I cant still make solid money at them I just feel live cash games are a better spot and I have been putting in less hours and making more money. So it seemed like a no brainer.
I headed to West Palm Beach, FL for the WSOPc this past weekend with my roommate and man it was a zoo over there. The first event was a $345 reentry event that got over 850 entries. I ran about as bad as you can imagine and never got above the starting stack. I never gave up tho and almost made it to dinner break just grinding away. Event #2 was a $555 buyin and was going amazingly for most of the day. We started with 400 players and 12k in chips. At dinner break I had about 90k and was probably top ten in chips with about 150 ppl left, until the chipleader moved to our table. I decided to play pretty aggro vs him in the early going three betting him 3 times and one four bet in the first hour we were together. Then he crushed me in one of the weirdest hands I've played. At blinds 700-1400 I opened the co to 3300 with AQs and he was in the bb and 3b to 8800. I decided to flat as I didnt want to have to deal with a possible 5bet with a pretty strong hand. The flop came Q32 rainbow and he checked to me, which was weird. I figured he had to have some type of showdown hand, like 55-jj or AK, since he would almost always bet all his air there. I also thought he may check AA or KK or QQ on such a dry board but obv QQ is very slim. I decided to check back for a lil bit of pot control and the fact that my hand strength is disguised a lot and I can get two streets of value after this. Tho this may be somewhat flawed thinking and he prlly calls with 55-jj on the flop for sure. The turn was the Ad, putting two diamonds up and he led into me for 9500. I thought and raised small to 23k. For some reason I really thought he might have AK here when chcking back the flop and then leading. I didnt think he had a medium pair when he leads that turn. He tanked and ended up flatting and the river came an offsuit 6. He leads into me again for 21k which was just bizarre. I cut out my stack and had 72k left and was all ready to ship it in but something was just off about the hand and I ended up just calling and he showed me two red sixes to take the monster pot off me 20 from the money. Pretty weird play and line by him and I really assumed he was a solid player but maybe not, lol. He said he thought I was bluffing and that his sixes were good but that makes no sense because if he thought I was bluffing why wouldn't he check the river to me? Weird. I probably should have shoved the river for value but he just played his hand so weird donking the turn and river I was just reaaaally confused on what he could have. I lost a race a lil bit later for 40bb to get back to avg stack and was out just short of the money. Mtts can really suck sometimes. After I busted tho I went to play a long cash game session and ran pretty good in their deep buyin 5-10nl game making almost 5k over the next two days. So maybe busting the tourny was a blessing in disguise.
I am excited to head back to Wisco this Thurs for a week to see the family and catch up with some friends. However I am not looking forward to dealing with the 12 inches of snow they got yesterday. I'm not sure how I am ever gonna wanna go back to that place for good when its 75 out and sunny every single day in FL.
