Sooo Close!

I played several tournaments lastnight and got deep in the $25+2.5 25K Guaranteed, I finished 35th of 1452 runners. I was sitting 8th of 38 with thoughts of final tabling and taking this thing down, when i completed A6o in the small blind.

I normally would've raised this hand but there was a utg limper. On the flop villain insta pushed and i knew exactly what he had so i insta called. of course after i lose the hand and i'm sitting 35/35 i start to second guess the call. But from everything i've read and learned it is wrong to pass up on obvious +ev plays. Besides had i won this hand i wouldve final tabled for sure... and you know how i feel once i final table a tournament... i'm taking that sucka down!

First prize was around 7k i think. I checked the result this morning and the donk villain in this hand busted 24th... 24th! winning this hand put him in 1st or 2nd place with around 60bb and he finished 24th. So sad.

I had played a $11 mtt and a $11+1r+1a earlier but busted both quickly because i had just come home from work and was tired. I also played the $55 50k that started about 30 minutes after the 25k and was running ok when i misplayed a flopped set on a coordinated flop to bust 391st out of 1289.

All in all i feel really good with my play lastnight. Most importantly i learned that i can play at these buy-ins. when playing higher than normal we automatically assume that opponents are gonna be so much better based solely on the buy-in, but that simply was not the case in any of these tournaments. I felt i was better than at least 60% of the field. Of course the final table would probably be alot harder.

I will continue to work on my game, hopefully it pays off in a high 4 figure or even 5 figure cash.

-isgrinder

Wednesday Update

I did not play a 4/180 tourny today because i felt i would not be able to focus for the full tourny. Instead i decided to play a few 45 player tournies.I single tabled for the first one because i had to create a pahud log to send to support. For the past few weeks my hud has not been working and i can't figure out why... I hope this resolves the problem.

I did not money in any of these tournies... I couldnt win a race to save my life, not even when i was dominating.

First turbo tourny i push with 77 to isolate vs. a small stack shove, BB makes a loose call with AQo for his tourny life. After this bb=150 and i have 900 i push ontb with QTo, sb calls with T8s... flop comes xtx, turn 8, river 8... nh gg. Another tourny i'm in sb with AKo, loose player utg min r to 200, and gets two callers, I shove, OR folds, both players call with AQs and 99 respectively...99 holds... nh, gg.

Thats the way it went in all the tournies, can't complain i think i made the correct plays.

I was going to post some hands from my 3rd place finish yesterday... but after looking over them, i will just post all the hands that i played up until my connection went out. I think they may be interesting, especially once i got the big stack. I played a really lag game and tried to use my stack like a big club.

stars $4.00/180 3rd place finish

I might have busted earlier had i played it myself but i still wouldve like the experience of playing the final table as a big stack. hopefully i will get another chance soon.