Cap Games, May Goal, Final Table

So I recently bought out of the prop bet with Mike as I’ve been playing higher stakes cap games and it wasn’t worth it for me to grind out another 12k hands at 100nl.

So as I said I’ve been playing a lot of cap games recently with great results thus far. I decided to start at 1/2 to get a feel for how the games play at stakes that a 10 buy-in swing wouldn’t really hurt me at. I moved to playing about half 1/2 and half 2/4 because cap games don’t run all that often and I like to have 4 tables going. Anyways there is really only 1 or 2 people that I’m not happy to see at the table when I sit down and I feel like the rest of the people that play these games just may be semi-retarded.

I started playing them the last week of April and saw how badly I was beating them up, I set myself what I thought to be a challenging but attainable goal of a $5,000 May. However I’ve managed to surpass that goal already, only 1 week into the month. This is mainly thanks to a couple shot’s I’ve taken at 25/50 following around an over aggro-donk. The first time I played I lost $2500 before getting even and quitting. The second time I played a friend of mine took 2/3 of my action, which allowed me to not worry about the money so much. I ended up winning $2500 that session, so about +$800 after paying out the 2/3. My third and biggest foray into 25/50 was a couple nights ago. It was about 1:30am and I was just getting into bed, my head hit but apparently I had forgot to mute my computer as I hear the *ding dong* doorbell of my poker buddylist. Turns out it was my favourite donk, and he was playing heads up with another fish. It was to juicy to pass up and I ended up winning nearly $4k with 100% of myself this time.

So here’s my two graphs, the first one is $$ won, second is BB won. I’m running at about 4.34bb/100 and despite running well at the 25/50 game which obviously has boosted my results I’m running quite a bit below equity over-all in terms of BB won.

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For some stupid reason I decided to play a couple tournaments last night, the $109 on stars and FTP both started at the same time so i registered for both. Quickly donked out of the $109-6max on FTP but went deep in the Stars tourny. I ran pretty good in my flips. Lost one late with AK that would have put me at chip leader, but I quickly gained back the chips I lost stealing blinds. I got to the final table with about 85k in chips, a really comfortable stack probably around average.

Very early I found myself with JJ on the button facing a raise from an average stack to 15k, and a short stack shoved for ~40k. I isolated with red Jacks, having the shortstacks range crushed. He instead flipped up blacks Kings, there were 3 hearts on the flop but that’s as close as I got.

Soon I found myself in the SB with KJ and one of the chip leaders made an open on the button, I’m obviously ahead of his BTN stealing range and shoved in. Next thing I know the BB is iso-shoving over the top, with 77 and I’m raising for a hand that’ll put me right back in this. flop came down AAJ giving me a virtual lock on the hand. Except fo the 7-ski that came on the turn putting me out in 9th place for something between 6-700, don’t really know, I was playing for the $9k first the entire time.

I really don’t know how or why all of these younger online pros grind out tournaments all day everyday. This is a perfect example of the varience in Multi-table tournaments. I played this tourny 4-5 hours, outlasting 400+ people and the difference between 9th place and 1st place is over $8,000 in a $100 buy-in tourny. Now, obviously if you could get 9th place everytime its about $100 profit/hour. But you’re not final tabling every tournament. It’s completely feasible to go 0/20 in cashes alone if you’re not getting lucky in some key spots. Wanna play a tournament? No thanks, I’ll stick to grinding out cash games. With maybe the occasional tournament on the side when I feel like I want to hate life or something.

~ by Mike on May 8, 2008.