"Big Deal" Tournament coming up....
I put a little money over at PowerPlayer (PokerRoom skin basically)... Just because I was at my dad's and only have a Mac over there, so I wanted to play. Well, after having more bad luck at the ring games over there, just like I did at PokerRoom a month ago, I decided that I'm gonna use my money for sattelites and/or decent tournaments, so hopefully I can make some good money if I hit.
Well, I played a $5 sattelite for the Big Deal Weekly Tourney. This gets you into the $40 sattelite, and you need to place in this one to get into the Big one. Well, the first one went pretty well after a very rough start. It was Donkey heaven! Calling bets and re-raises with Ace-4 high and then hitting running aces just for good measure. Things like that. But after I lost the minimum on that hand, I got absolutely no cards for a very very long time. But I stayed tight and didn't force anything, and eventually I got AA and had a 4-way All-In that payed off huge. Busted 2 people and took a nice chunk from someone else, and I was the leader. This was after being down at the bottom of the rankings. At that point I just played my normal game, and only had to get lucky one time with 55 vs 99. So I made it into the next level, which I played today....
This one started out just as rough. Just terrible cards for quite some time, and when I did get a hand, it didn't pan out on the flop. There was only like 29 people in this one, and 1/8 get a seat, so it was only 3 spots, and 4th gets the remaining cash. So I was stuck at the bottom for a couple levels early on, but then I managed to double up with A10 against 10-10 when the blinds caught up to me. Then my game got going back to normal. Prior to that I was just waiting for hands to push with, cause I was in the Red Zone. (HOH2) After that I jumped up into the top 10 and then hit another hand or two and I was in the top 5 pretty steadily after that. But by the time we got to the final table, I was 2nd to last. Blinds just got big too fast, and the cards were just brutal. I couldn't even steal with the junk I was getting. So once again I was getting pretty deperate, but didn't want a big stack to bust me just because they could. So I waited a bit and picked good spots to steal a few chips here and there, and slowly gained. A few busted and I got my stack more healthy until I finally got into the top 4 out of about 6-7. Everyone was essentially shorstacked at this point though. I think only 3 of us were over 10M and not by much.
We finally busted a few more people and were 4 handed, thank god! I hate bubble time, because it's so slow and nobody wants to play. I stole what I could when a big stack didn't try to do it first, and stayed alive. But now that we're 4 handed anything goes... because $120 is fine, but really I wanted the seat. Well, I picked up JQ on the button and made a raise to 1500 with blinds at 300/600. The SB called and 2 of us saw the flop. It came xJx and the SB checked and I bet about 1/3 of the pot. He raised me the minimum, and since I had him covered by about 2k, I put him all-in and of course he turned over JK. So I'm literally sitting here screaming for a Queen so we can get our seats and end this already.... Turn blanks off, and then the river answers my request, the Queen comes off and we're now 3 handed!
I won the seat, and just to top it off....I pick up QQ the next hand and push, and of course everyone calls... My QQ holds up and I win the tournament, even though it didn't matter, it's still a first place, lol.
So now I have the $300 Big Deal Tournament on Saturday, and the last tournies 2 have gone well, and I'm hoping I can have a similar showing in this one, because I would really prefer to win some actual money out of this. I'll let you know how it goes.
Well, I played a $5 sattelite for the Big Deal Weekly Tourney. This gets you into the $40 sattelite, and you need to place in this one to get into the Big one. Well, the first one went pretty well after a very rough start. It was Donkey heaven! Calling bets and re-raises with Ace-4 high and then hitting running aces just for good measure. Things like that. But after I lost the minimum on that hand, I got absolutely no cards for a very very long time. But I stayed tight and didn't force anything, and eventually I got AA and had a 4-way All-In that payed off huge. Busted 2 people and took a nice chunk from someone else, and I was the leader. This was after being down at the bottom of the rankings. At that point I just played my normal game, and only had to get lucky one time with 55 vs 99. So I made it into the next level, which I played today....
This one started out just as rough. Just terrible cards for quite some time, and when I did get a hand, it didn't pan out on the flop. There was only like 29 people in this one, and 1/8 get a seat, so it was only 3 spots, and 4th gets the remaining cash. So I was stuck at the bottom for a couple levels early on, but then I managed to double up with A10 against 10-10 when the blinds caught up to me. Then my game got going back to normal. Prior to that I was just waiting for hands to push with, cause I was in the Red Zone. (HOH2) After that I jumped up into the top 10 and then hit another hand or two and I was in the top 5 pretty steadily after that. But by the time we got to the final table, I was 2nd to last. Blinds just got big too fast, and the cards were just brutal. I couldn't even steal with the junk I was getting. So once again I was getting pretty deperate, but didn't want a big stack to bust me just because they could. So I waited a bit and picked good spots to steal a few chips here and there, and slowly gained. A few busted and I got my stack more healthy until I finally got into the top 4 out of about 6-7. Everyone was essentially shorstacked at this point though. I think only 3 of us were over 10M and not by much.
We finally busted a few more people and were 4 handed, thank god! I hate bubble time, because it's so slow and nobody wants to play. I stole what I could when a big stack didn't try to do it first, and stayed alive. But now that we're 4 handed anything goes... because $120 is fine, but really I wanted the seat. Well, I picked up JQ on the button and made a raise to 1500 with blinds at 300/600. The SB called and 2 of us saw the flop. It came xJx and the SB checked and I bet about 1/3 of the pot. He raised me the minimum, and since I had him covered by about 2k, I put him all-in and of course he turned over JK. So I'm literally sitting here screaming for a Queen so we can get our seats and end this already.... Turn blanks off, and then the river answers my request, the Queen comes off and we're now 3 handed!
I won the seat, and just to top it off....I pick up QQ the next hand and push, and of course everyone calls... My QQ holds up and I win the tournament, even though it didn't matter, it's still a first place, lol.
So now I have the $300 Big Deal Tournament on Saturday, and the last tournies 2 have gone well, and I'm hoping I can have a similar showing in this one, because I would really prefer to win some actual money out of this. I'll let you know how it goes.
posted by Kurt at 10:10 PM
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