Some Online Poker

I've played a little bit this week with no good results. I did get second in the 8.80 PLO hyper turbo on stars for around 500, but other than that it was brick city. I didn't feel like I played my best and throw in not running good and its a bad mix. I plan on watching the college basketball tournament all weekend again. SCOOP series starts next week on Poker Stars so I'd say I'll be playing quite a bit when that happens. Congrats to Joby and Crawford for both taking down the fiddy turbo on Full Tilt within the last two weeks for around 5k each. That is about all thats going on, take it easy.

Hanging Out

I've just been taking it easy since I got back from the Midwestern Circuit last week. I played one day last week which was Wednesday night. I built up a few stacks but couldn't get anything going in the late stages. Other than that I've been hanging out and watching lots of Law and Order. I just simply can't get enough of that show. I don't see any poker for me this week at all. I'm geared up for this Thursday through Sunday to watch all the games this weekend. I'll be hanging out over at mattster's house all weekend I'd say. I plan on playing alot of golf the next few days. Also, hoping to get back on the exercise trail. I'm still losing weight and down 46 pounds now. I'm going to hit my goal pretty easily of losing 50 pounds before June. I'm going to set a new goal of losing 75 lbs before June. When I started I wanted to lose around 100 lbs total, like I said I really let myself go downhill after I quit the physical labor. That is about all that is going on, I'll talk at ya later.

What a short Main Event it was for me

I played in the $2600 Main Event yesterday with high expectations. It lasted a little under two hours where I found myself in what I thought was a sick spot versus a very good online player. I ended up getting JTss allin vs 77 on K976 with 2 spades. The way the hand played out I could of gotten out preflop, on the flop, or even on the turn but I decided to play it fast and it backfired. I was around a 30/70 dog on this hand. Looking back on how how I played it I should of checked the turn to him to maybe get a free card or check folded. With how soft the field is and how deep in chips I would of been in I should of given up and cut my losses on this hand. Oh well, It was a great circuit for me and exceeded my goals. I'm not sure when I'm going to play online again, could be tomorrow night. The NCAA basketball tournament is almost here and that will take up alot of my time since it's my favorite sports tournament. That's about it, hopefully it starts to warm up so I can get some golf in. Take it easy

Update from Midwestern

I got really sick on Wednesday night and ended up skipping the 340 on Thursday. I went back home to see a doctor to get some medication so I wouldn't get worse before the Main Event on Sunday. I played the 550 NL yesterday and turned my 6k into 14k before the first break. After the break, I got moved when I played a massive pot with 98ss vs AKo on a KsTx7s board. I whiffed and was down to 2k. I ended up losing JJ vs AK to the same guy all in preflop to bust.

I played online the previous two nights and broke around even. I went deep in three tournies but couldn't win the key hand deep. Looking back on all of my trips it seems like if I run hot live, I run cold online. Oh well, this trip has exceeded my goals already and can't complain one bit with the results. I would of never thought I would of won back to back tournaments here, let alone on back to back days. Tomorrow is the $2600 Main Event, hope to keep running hot and end this circuit with a big bang. I just plan on relaxing and getting some rest today. That about sums it up, Take it easy.

Back to Back

I shipped the $230 rebuy event yesterday here at the Midwestern Poker Regionals. There was 167 entrants in this event. We chopped heads up, 13.1k each but I got the seat also which is $2600 so ended up making around 15.7k. I also got another trophy. I had a huge stack the entire tournament just getting my money in good in massive pots. I lost AJ vs A5 with around 15 left for a ton of chips but still was chipleader or in second. I didn't get involved much from there besides busting a shortstack with K2 vs his AQ. At the final table, I busted Joby out 6th when my KJ held vs his 98. We got down to 3 handed and I was 2/3 and turned it up a notch to build my stack. I busted the guy in 3rd with my KT all in vs his KK, 998QJ is how the board ran out. Pretty sick for him. If I lost I would of been 3/3 and not looking so great. Feels good to finally run good deep in some major tournaments. Congrats to Joby for getting 6th for $3900.

I played the $230 1/2 pineapple 1/2 holdem today and ran KK into AA for a monster stack in the pineapple portion. Tomorrow is the $340 and Friday is the $550, those are my last two events before the Main Event on Sunday. Saturday is an off day so probably try to get some rest that day. I think I might put in some hours online tonight but who knows. Thats it, take it easy.

Ship the Midwestern 230 6 max to the K-ROCK

I shipped the 230 6 max today here at the Midwestern Poker Regionals for 12.8k plus a 2600 main event seat. I absolutley destroyed the bubble to go from 26k at 1k-2k to 85k before we actually hit the money. From there it was just totally basic, getting in good and holding. We got to the final table and I had 400k and there was a total of 880k in play. This kid busts the other four players and I find myself headsup as a slight dog. I just basically totally owned him in postflop play and ended up getting AJ in vs KQ, the board ran out AJxKx for the victory. I got a sweet trophy to go along with money and the main event seat. This was a big swing and ended my downswing. I finally got my confidence back.

I also played the 340 turbo on Sunday, and busted early losing 56cc on a Tc8c5x board vs QQ for a huge stack. I want to congratulate Joby for chopping 3 ways for 5300 he ended up getting second missing out on the trophy and the main event seat. Online, I got got sixth in the 33 2rebuy 1 addon on Pokerstars, losing AK vs 87 vs Wretchy(who is ranked 24th on pocketfives) for the chiplead. That tourney was 5k to win.

Tomorrow is the 230 rebuy, which I'll be playing for the minimum. I'm hoping to go back to back but that would be pretty wild. The funny thing about the 230 6 max today was I tried unregistering because I was an alternate and wouldnt get in for an hour. Luckily I didnt, Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Talk to ya later