Great Weekend So Far

Friday was a great day for poker. The day started pretty uneventful playing a couple of heads up SNG's. I won two and lost two and wasn't really into it. I played some $.25/.50 limit holdem, but that was not what I wanted to do either. I decided to do a couple of sattelites and tournaments. I settled on a $22 9-person SNG to the $100K that evening and played .25/.50 in the background. I had a massive suckout early against two players all in, which gave me a huge chiplead. I ended up dominating the final table until we were heads up. Second place was $30 bucks, so I wasn't looking to place in this one. I ended up taking it down when he jammed J9 into my AK and it held up. The tournament wasn't until 9, (it was around noon) so I decided to take the T$ and play some other tourneys later on.

I started a $10 HORSE tournament around 630 and a rebuy satellite to the 50/50 at 7. In the 50/50 after the initial rebuy, I had to double rebuy with about 5 minutes left after running AK into AQ when the board ran out AKQQ9. Rough, but I managed to double up before the break to around 8000 and doubled again shortly after the break when I flopped the nut flush and was paid off by a donkey big stack. I love when those guys forget they can't rebuy anymore and still play the same. They paid out 40 places and with 60 people left I had the chiplead. I took it easy for a bit and picked my spots to keep my stack healthy. When we hit 40, and the tourney ended, I was in 5th in chips, very happy with my play. Because I had to get up early the next morning, I decided to take the T$ from that as well.

At the same time, the HORSE tournament was going well. I stayed in the top 15 in chips the whole time, never having a big stack, but never in danger. There were 200 to start, and 24 paid. On the bubble, I lost a big pot in stud, but that only dropped me to 10th place from 3rd. Stud is by far my worst game. Limit hold'em is where I try to play my A game, I tend to crush the Omaha round, and barring a shitload of bricks, I am solid at Razz. Both of the stud games elude me though. I just find it hard to push people out of pots from drawing to two pair. I try to play tight, but to no avail. I ended up winning a couple nice pots in stud, but lost far more than I would have liked to even played.

When we got to the final table, I had 40K in chips and the chip leader had 100K. After knocking out a couple of the shorties we were 4 handed. 4th place was $160, 3rd was 200, 2nd was $350 and 1st was $525. I was the short stack at 100K with 8K/16K blinds. The hand the changed everything, I was dueling with the chipleader villain. He raised UTG, and I called from the SB with 88, BB called as well. Flop was 8AA. I led out, BB called, UTG raised and I reraised. BB called, UTG called. Turn was a 2 and we all got all of our money in. The BB had about 50K more than me, and the chipleader had 150K more. BB had A4 and UTG had AK. River was another 8 to seal the deal. I ended up having a monster stack at that point and was able to run the table over in the Holdem and Omaha parts. After getting rid of 3rd and 4th place, the former chipleader and I went to battle. I had a 6-1 chiplead and we got all in soon after starting heads up in the omaha section. I had A234 v. KKJQ. The board came out K3456 to give me the win and over $500. I ended up playing a hundred or so hands of limit poker during this time and won $6 the first session and $16 the second. I haven't been able to play since then, so I am itching for some more tonight. I have $180 T$ so I'll probably do a few tournaments with some cash mixed in and see if I can keep on my heater.