Had an interesting week of poker.
Both this Monday (5/12) and last Monday (28/11) I've had decent 5k+ scores in online mtts (this is not exactly what it seems because usually you win one tournament or do well in one and lose all the others) they were still both significant scores though
which is nice, the path to get to this point though has been pretty rough and very very swingy. Sharkscope says I'm back in the positive for scheduled tourneys but i think it lies about rebuy tournaments and so is far from accurate.
On Thursday night i played a little bit of heads up in Jesse Mckenzie's home games holding my own with a solid player and then stacking Micheal Arietm as he joined us for a 3 player cash bonanza. After this i headed to the city to chill with Rhys Gould and play some magic online.
I played some live 5/10 and 10/20 cash on Friday and Saturday nights, got there twice when it was necessary and just played pretty solid straightforward poker which is all that really needs to be done in live passive fields where the overlay and skill edge is significant.
On Sunday the 4th i played the 1k nlh event at 'The Star' which had 108 entrees. My opening table was one of the tougher ones but the other good players (Brendon Rubie etc) seemed to die off. Rhys Gould came to my table with almost no chips, doubled up and then got stacked a few hands later as one of the regs Danny predicted. Alek Smith showed up and immediately got in a 6 bet war then proceeded to run over the table with a combination of aggression and big pocket pairs.
I soon got moved tables and watched my friend Nick Polias run into a monster with 88 and then found myself in a tough spot, i opened with ato utg (had a semi loose image) the table folded to the sb who min raised with 16bbs (an amateur), the bb called (also an amateur player) and i called. The flop came a25 the sb lead for 4k the bb folded and i called, the turn came a queen and sb led for 9k with 15 behind, i tanked and decided to call and fold to any river action if the board did not change. The river repeated the 5 and the sb shoved. Based on his play i didn't expect him to ever have ak and rarely have aq (i thought his most likely holding was aj)as i expected he would have shoved pre flop with these hands and his stack size eventually i called and he turned over qq and scooped a big pot.
Back to 10bb i ground away and doubled up with JJ. We soon moved tables and only 40 players were left. I sat on the right side of a pretty adventurous Sydney regular, Tolly. My table overall was pretty tight and i found a few spots to pick up chips. I was up to 30bb as some new players moved to our table. One of the new players to the table came into the cutoff and when folded to opened to 3k @ 600/1200 200ante(from a 50bb stack), in the sb i decided to 3 bet him with kjs to 8k he called. Flop came a52rainbow (1 card to my suit) and i made a half pot continuation bet, the new player called. The turn was a queen which helped my hand a little, the pot had gotten pretty big roughly 34k and i had 24kish left, i decided this was a good opportunity to pick up a big pot I shoved and was called.
Usually this would be super super bad for me. To my amazement my opponent turned over q4s for 2nd pair and a gutshot, i had 7 outs as opposed to the 4 i expected i would have when called unfortunately i missed them all. My opponent played pretty interestingly in this hand calling a 3 bet with a really bad hand, calling a flop bet on an ace high board with only a gutshot and then calling a turn shove in this spot. I want my opponents to play badly so even though things did not go my way i was pretty happy with the tournament and how i played.
So in the last week i have played lots of online tourneys, heads up cash, big live games and a 1k livament.
Officially poker'd out for at least the rest of the night
