April 7th
Well, so much for the update blog resolution. Oh well
Like Mike said I made a prop bet with him about who can maintain a higher win rate at .50/1nl over 30k hands.
I wanted to do this for a number of reasons. The most important reason was that I hadn’t been running so hot at 2/4nl and wanted to make some stress free money. Plus the bet with Mike would give me some motivation even though I was playing for less money than usual
Here’s my graph so far (click to enlarge)
So I’m winning at ~9bb/100 so far and would like to continue that which should all but clinch a win for me. Unrealistic though and will probably end up with a winrate of like 6-7.
Another not so great poker moment in my life also came recently. One day on MSN Pat was telling me about how he was playing these WSOP Step sngs and how soft they were, so I decided to take a shot at them. I bought into 4 Step 3’s and working my way up eventually found myself with a Step 6 ticket!
The winner of Step 6 got a WSOP package worth $12500, myself being only 20 at the time of the Series this year would have just taken the money. So I decided to use my step 6 ticket a few days ago. It was a different structure than the regular sng’s I have played, starting with double the stacks. I picked a sng that only had 2 people with positive ROI’s so I figured it was as good as any. First hand of the sng I raised AQo and got 1 caller from the blinds.
flop came like XTQ – chk/bet/call
the turn came a blank – turn. chk/bet/call.
the river came an A which gave me top two – he then donk led into me for full pot. I didn’t have a strong enough read on the first hand (obviously) to fold and he showed KJ for the nuts, so i lost a little more than 1k on that hand. I then got abused after missed flops and got down to 1500. I don’t remember much but I remember 1 hand from the middle where I pushed Ax and got called by KQ. There was a K on the flop, the turn brought many things…
1) an ace
2) a jump
3) fist pump
4) primal scream
Another hand from the middle saw me in the blinds with KK and got pushed on. I called and held.
Anyways I got heads up with a lead that I increased to about 4-1.
Then heartbreak, with the chips about ~6k – ~20k in my favour and the blinds at 400/800 I pushed in T5s and got snap called by 33. I couldn’t hit my 2 overs, flush draw and gut-shot and we were about even. next hand he made a standard open and with the chips being worth so much I shoved 22 over the top and got snap called by KK and was crippled. I couldn’t recover and took 2nd for $1500. I was completely devastated for the rest of the day. I ran pretty well all tournament but not in the most crucial spot.
The pain is gone now though and I’m focused on my bet with Mike and I expect to finish the hands of fairly quickly when exams are over, playing sporadically until then.
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