Brief clarification. Upon immediate feedback, I was informed that my inaugural blog did not shed me in the best of light. I'm really not a bad looking dude people. I used to be very athletic. Went to college, drank too much beer, ate one too many chicken fingers, ran a little less, and now I am a 'normal' size 36. Whatever.
And no, Kristen is not presurring me to buy a house or a ring. Yet.
So.. onto some poker! Finally. I really don't play many MTT's anymore. I just don't have the time. I mainly play HU SNG's and Ring games. I was pretty sucessful in MTT's last year. That's all I really played (aka no girlfriend in 2006). I played mainly $10 - $20 MTT's. I finished 1st or 2nd in every MTT FT, except for one. So, I pride myself on my FT play. Too often in these donkaments, aggro play is the standard. In my first few FT's, I also was pretty aggro and my results reflected this variance. Since I believe my short handed game is pretty strong, I tightened up quite a bit and opened up as they got 7,6,5 and 4 handed.
So I took down the 20K VIP Pokerstars freeroll a few weeks ago for 2.2K. Sorry, I dont' have the HH for it, but i think that was my best FT played. Every now and then I've had time to play the nightly $10 NLHE 10 Minute Blind Levels on Stars. I love these, and stars recently changed the structure to them. Which means I now love them about as much as Margot's dimples from Punky Brewster.
I make the FT after only being all in twice for the entire tournament.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/249470 Here, I pop from late position with 77. The BB defends. I personally don't like this. His flat here narrows his range to small pairs 22 - 55/66, KQ/KJ, and Ax. Flop brings out 3 overs and he donk front bets. Okay, he wants to see where his Ax stands here. Fair enough, I shove, expecting an insta-fold. Just kidding, villain insta-calls with A3... what? So i hit my 2 outter and double up.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/249472 Then this hand happens. Folded to SB who raises into my big. I have a huge range that will shove here. He insta calls with 33. There is soooo much that has 33 in either horrible shape or at best a flip. This is actually similar to the Patrik Antonius-Doyle Brunson hand played at the NADBC. Me having A2 is the BEST possible hope for 33 to make a call. So i spike the ace, and the dude berates me there after asking what i was doing shoving A2 there. Blah, Blah. Yawn. So he's still talking when this hand comes up.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/249480 EP raiser was folding to a lot of shoves. Villain probably recognizes this and shoves. IMO he doesnt need a big hand here. I pick up AK, and thought for 2 seconds before shoving. Villain has A4. Bricks out and GG.
Nothing really eventful thereafter. Make FT. Got lucky when i tried a resteal. Eventually bust 4th. I was a shorti and pushed a marginal holding as my FE was dwindling.
Have won a few sat's over the weekend.. including a sunday million seat today.. but can't play today due to my lack of quality fitting dress pants, so kris10 is dragging me to the mall. Still hungover from last night... went to Adam's Morgan, started drinknig around 6, made it to about 1. Big improvement over prior weeks attempts to drink for 5+ hours.
Have had requests for my pstars avatar. Will post shortly.
jayluf
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