Back to Posting

Sorry for not having posted in a while...for anyone who does read this blog. I've been busy with school and just trying to do better in poker the past week. I got down to $500 again, and got back up to $1k before last night's FT. Kyle was on his way to austin from seattle, and i was in the $11R 35k guarantee. I lost chips over the second hour, which isn't usually good, and then once i dbled up to 40k, i donked half my stack off on a missed flush draw, to a total fish...woops. The guy who i donked half my stack to decided to smooth call my AT raise w/ JJ. The flop came A A T, so i just had to figure out how to sucker him into putting me ai. I checked, he bet half the pot, i min raised, like i had when i bluffed the flush draw on the turn. Then on then turn it went check check, and i shoved the river, and got his call. Then i raised KTo, and the same guy this time min reraised me. I called, flop K x K. i checked to him and he played right into me, shoving....i call, he turns over QQ and i turn the T for the boater. I then slowly built up my stack, until i had 400k, and KK as the bb. AJhh raised it to 36k, i reraised to 84k, and he rereraised ai for 200k total. I call and he flops the nut flush...and so i am now down to 200k, tho i coulda been at 600k had i won that pot. i get AT on button, shove and am insta called by the sb and his 44, which is his entire stack. flop T T river A, another boatie for me. I quickly lost 100k of my now 400k w/ 66 v 99, which i called only because i had 20k in the bb and button shoved for 90k more... easy call imo. I got blinded down to 200k, and shoved TT from utg when the tbl was around 7 handed. the guy behind me reshoved JJ, and i flopped the set. At around 500k, i got KK to hands later as bb. Someone limped for 30k, the sb raised it up to around 120k, and i reraised it up to 320k. sb called, and the flop came 7 7 x. he checked and i shoved for my 200-250k more, and he thought called me w/ AK. turn and river came T T, so i dbled up again to around 900k. I got 66 on sb the next hand, and the loose pre raiser on the tbl raised it as he did a lot. the flop came A 6 x, i checked and he bet 1/4th his stack, i check raise, and he basically insta folds. I make it to the FT w/ around 1.1 million in chips of the total 8 million chips. The biggest fish at the table had a slight lead, and continued increasing his lead, as he mad incrediably loose calls preflop w Ax and kept out-flopping or out-turning bigger hands. i raised KQcc one hand, and he repopped me pre for 200k more, so i folded. i then raised 55 and he called from bb, flop came A J 8, he led out for 2x bb, and i knew that if he had any pair he was calling my reraise, so i folded. he had been raising A8 and Ax's pre, so when he raised and i picked up AJo, i shoved ai over for my 500k chips. he called w/ 77 and held, felting me in 6th place. I'm pretty happy with the results, although i wish i could have made it to the top 3 at least. I made $1700 or so, which is nice. I did play extremely tight and never got reraised pre but on my KT vs QQ. I got ul one hand, and then lucky a hand after that. So, all-in-all, the luck was alright in the tourney. hopefully the next FT i get to i can win a race....since i've lost the last two FTs due to losing 3 races...poop. Anyways, i'm at my condo at south padre island, and shall be taking some pictures for the thousands of viewers to read. peace out.