Well I managed to recoup some of the money I lost in that nightmare session I had over a week ago. I played an 10 hour session of poker which consisted 5 hours of playing live and 5 hours playing a tournament in which I made final table. Played 5 hours of 3-5 NL and garnered a 1k winning session. Big hand of the session was when I was sitting with around 450 dollars 300 of which was the initial buy in. Im in the BB with 97o, 5 people limp in pot including myself. Flop comes out 6,8,5. 6,8 are of clubs. First player to act makes it 50 folded to button who reraises to 200, I figure to might as well push in this situation for 445 total. Initial raiser folds, button looks like someone just put a knife to his stomach and says you have the straight but I cant fold. So after agonizing for two minutes he finally calls with his set of 6s. The hand holds up...KAA CHING!!! I stop playing because play starts to become to crazy when im in pot everyone was targeting to bust me, and as we all know slim and none comes into play when big hands and big cash are involved. Its time to stop and reflect on the session, be happy and call it a day. I got bored and played some 3-6 limit Omaha hi/lo. I just buy in for 100 just for shits and giggles. All I can say is that it was a very entertaining game and it was a nice break from playing hold em.
After a few hours still at the casino just railing my dad play his game, the sign ups for the nightly tournament come up. I decide what the hell its only 40 dollars and I get to work on my tournament game. I just basically was running super well and busting people left and right. Hand of the tournament, I hold AA UTG its halfway through the levels and im sitting with huge chip stack at this point of the tourny im no worse than 3rd in chips. I limp in and to my delight short stack 1 pushes, ss2 pushes, BB ss3 pushes, I cant push my chips in any faster. One holds KQ, KJ suited, and AQ. I bust all three in one hand. In any case when it got down to 2 tables I was basically card dead, also throw in the 20 minute structure with increasing blinds, it really put a dent in my chip stack. Tried one move that didnt work but I was still ok, other than that I uneventfully made it to the final table where I bust out in 7th place, when my AQ suited runs into KK. The tournament was really fun and I got to see that my game is in good shape, only regret was being card dead the last section of the tournament, I was also unable to make those critical plays and steals necessary in late stages of NL tournaments, as another player beat me to it. He ended up winning the tournament so kudos to him I know he deserved the win, as he made those necessary plays at my table to maintain his chip stack until he started to hold cards again in which he just dominated the final table.
Next up on the horizon will be a satellite for the 15k Bellagio 5 diamond tournament in December. That will be Oct 28 with a 200 dollar entry fee. I also plan to play in some BC (vancouver canada) poker tournaments which are in November. Other than that just keep on grinding that 3-5 game and be happy with 500-1000 dollar wins. Thanks for reading this novel.
by the way---KC CONCEPTION I LOVE YOU!!!!
