I am off to beutiful northern Minnesota tomorrow for a week for some fishing, a little bit of poker and a whole lot of relaxation. I will be playing a Wednesday night tourney at one of the small casinos up there. Last year I finished 5th. Hoping for a win this year as the play is absolutly horrible. I will post a report when I return. Here's to everyone having fun and safe week. See you in a week.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
Friday, June 20, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
So this is what it has come to.
I have not been playing hardly any poker as of late. So last night I decided to fire up stars and donk around in there sattalite section. I chose a 50FPP hundred person shootout to one of the million dollar tourneys. My first table was incredibly tight. Which I soon used to my advantage. You could be fairly certain that if anyone at this table reraised you they had a monster. So I stole a lot of pots and eventually got heads up with a 5 to 1 chip advantage. My opponent managed to chip up a little by pushing a lot of flops where I had wiffed. I eventually took down table one when he flat called pre flop and I checked my option with 10 3 suited. The flop came down 10 6 3 rainbow. I checked he bet around 2/3 pot. I pushed and he called with A 10 suited. His play here really baffled me. Up until this point in heads up he never slow played any ace. Anyway I won the first table with only one to go.
The final table started kind of rough for me. On the second hand I was dealt AK. I raise, only to see 3 callers. The flop was interesting to say the least, KQ10. I really was not that excited about my hand. The first player to act bet pot and the other 2 folded. I was not sure what I was thinking but I decided to raise to find out where I am at and of course he comes over the top all in. I thought for about a second and decided there is very little I can beat here. I fold. Now I am down from the starting stack of 1500 to a little less than 1100. A few orbitz go by and I pick up a few pots, mostly with steals, when the perverbial axe came crashing down on me. I pick up AA in the small blind. The player in the cutoff makes it 350 to go. It folds to me and I have about 1700 in chips, which happens to be the second shortest stack at this point. I decide to push against this player knowing that he does not need much to call. He is an action guy, loves to gamble. So as predicted he calls and turns up JJ. The flop comes down all blanks, as does the turn, thats when I looked at the screen just in time to see the jack spike on the river and IGH in 6th out of 100. Now I know that the odds are not very good that you are going to win a seat when only 1 out of 100 gets one, but as soon as I was at the final table for a few orbitz I knew I was a better player than the rest of the table.
The reason for the title of this post is because I can't help but think back to a time not to long ago where I would not have given two shits about a tournament like this, but last night I was generally mad about how it turned out. Just a couple short years ago I was making a decent amount of money online and never even thought to play a 50FPP sat. I guess I will just have to start over again once things on the homefront are taken care of. The only thing is that if I knew now what I knew back then, I would still have a fair sum in my online account. Thats not to say that I pissed the money away. I just didn't know much about bankroll management back then. I would take out money and buy stuff. Stuff that I needed at the time, stuff that I didn't need. Oh well, I guess you live and you learn.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
The final table started kind of rough for me. On the second hand I was dealt AK. I raise, only to see 3 callers. The flop was interesting to say the least, KQ10. I really was not that excited about my hand. The first player to act bet pot and the other 2 folded. I was not sure what I was thinking but I decided to raise to find out where I am at and of course he comes over the top all in. I thought for about a second and decided there is very little I can beat here. I fold. Now I am down from the starting stack of 1500 to a little less than 1100. A few orbitz go by and I pick up a few pots, mostly with steals, when the perverbial axe came crashing down on me. I pick up AA in the small blind. The player in the cutoff makes it 350 to go. It folds to me and I have about 1700 in chips, which happens to be the second shortest stack at this point. I decide to push against this player knowing that he does not need much to call. He is an action guy, loves to gamble. So as predicted he calls and turns up JJ. The flop comes down all blanks, as does the turn, thats when I looked at the screen just in time to see the jack spike on the river and IGH in 6th out of 100. Now I know that the odds are not very good that you are going to win a seat when only 1 out of 100 gets one, but as soon as I was at the final table for a few orbitz I knew I was a better player than the rest of the table.
The reason for the title of this post is because I can't help but think back to a time not to long ago where I would not have given two shits about a tournament like this, but last night I was generally mad about how it turned out. Just a couple short years ago I was making a decent amount of money online and never even thought to play a 50FPP sat. I guess I will just have to start over again once things on the homefront are taken care of. The only thing is that if I knew now what I knew back then, I would still have a fair sum in my online account. Thats not to say that I pissed the money away. I just didn't know much about bankroll management back then. I would take out money and buy stuff. Stuff that I needed at the time, stuff that I didn't need. Oh well, I guess you live and you learn.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
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