So I've been slacking a lot on the sngs over the last 10 days or so, they've started to feel too much like work of late. Anyway, I found myself playing a few mtts instead, it's been a while since I played any scheduled games, and tbh it's been kind of refreshing to play for bigger prizes. I've enjoyed it thus far, almost certainly due to a small rush of success. Nothing big, they've pretty much all been tiny BI's but you take what you can get I guess.
So I started by shipping a $1 razz tourney (lolaments), I've had a lot of success in Razz, albeit from a tiny sample, but it's definitely a game I really understand well (imo). There isn't much in poker (or life for that matter) that makes much sense to me, but razz seems to be something that I picked up straight away and pretty much immediately knew what I was doing. It's a very pure form of poker that's mostly about patience and reading people's bets, but also about driving people out of pots and repping what you don't have. You can really put a lot of pressure on people when you know what kind of cards they have in the hole, and players are extremely transparent, they almost tell you what they have by their betting patterns. I think that's the 3rd final table I've made in razz from only a handful of games. $28 was pretty lol, and it seemed to last a lifetime, especially hu, I must have been hu with the guy for about 75 minutes. Anyway, 5.5 hours gave me just over a $5 hourly lol, but whatever.. I won! Haha.I also made a $3 omaha final table and finished 3rd for $105. So 2 final tables in 2 days! Pretty chuffed about that even though they were micro donkaments.
Then last night I managed a 3rd final table in an mtt with 2.5k entrants, it was a $2K guarantee with a $1 BI. I actually managed to ship that one too! It was the first time I've ever won a scheduled tourney without going into the final table with a big stack. I got crippled early on from a bad beat..PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 1.1 Tournament, 10000/20000 Blinds 2000 Ante (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Hand Converter from HandHistoryConverter.com
MP1 (t1394899)
MP2 (t942761)
MP3 (t995955)
Hero (CO) (t1040721)
Button (t1917980)
SB (t388824)
BB (t423925)
UTG (t562417)
UTG+1 (t510518)
Hero's M: 21.68
Preflop: Hero is CO with Q
, Q
5 folds, Hero bets t57850, 2 folds, BB raises to t421925 (All-In), Hero calls t364075
Flop: (t871850) A
, 7
, 10 (2 players, 1 all-in)Turn: (t871850) A
(2 players, 1 all-in)River: (t871850) Q
(2 players, 1 all-in)Total pot: t871850
Results:
BB had A
, 10 (full house, Aces over tens).Hero had Q
, Q (full house, Queens over Aces).Outcome: BB won t871850
So I was thinking 7th place at best by that point, but managed to double up twice after that and was right back in it, that said, I had only 500k chips by the time we got 3 handed vs 2.5m and 5m stacks, managed to win another 2 flips and ending up shipping it! Nice to win a few flips at a final table.. it's been a while.
So I'm on for a micro triple crown now obviously (for all you P5'ers). Anything $28 and above counts imo. Haha
So this month is definitely ending better than it started. I don't expect to win much more in the next week or so, since I plan to play only a few sngs mixed with a few mtts. You never know though, maybe I can hit a big one along the way.Until next time..
