I’ve been playing as much as ever lately. I’m involved in a big team points contest on PocketFives. There are a lot of great players involved. For the contest there are ten teams of five players apiece. At the end of the ten day contest period, each team uses their top thirty points scores with a max of ten scores for any individual contestant. It’s been interesting to see all these great players put in a lot of volume. Needless to say the online fields were a lot tougher man for man during the contest. Unless my team hits a full court buzzer beater we’re done. Honestly the contest really hasn’t changed my schedule that much but it was definitely entertaining to keep up with while playing the past couple of weeks. Also, the FTOPS kicked off this week. I’ve bricked everything so far but hopefully I can circle the wagons and hit something big this weekend. There are still several great events left on the schedule…bink it one time!!!
Since my last blog I’ve had some good results. I shipped a 6 handed $100K, a UB $20K and a couple of smaller tournaments. I had top 3 finishes in a $100 rebuy on Full Tilt, a Bodog Poker Open event, a $40K on Tilt, etc etc…It all runs together. Today I took down the $30K KO and a $6K HA. I finished 3rd in the $40K on Tilt and had approximately 100 min cashes including the $1K buy-in on UB. Weeeeeeee…
My two most interesting finishes were probably the 6 handed $100K on Tilt and a 19th in the Sunday $150 re-buy on Tilt. The $100K win was interesting because I took a chop for the first time ever. I’ve always declined chops but it felt right in this tournament for a few reasons. At the time I had about 18 bb’s and the two guys to my left had about 18 bb’s as well. They both seemed like good aggro players, making the whole situation extremely volatile. I was also chip lead shorthanded at another good final table and getting a little tired. When I considered the volatility/other action/my energy level the chop seemed like the play. After the chop I insta-busted the other FT and shipped this one. I’ve hated myself ever since but that’s probably results oriented thinking which is a no-no. The $150 re-buy 19th was interesting due to my bust hand. I had about 65ish bb’s for a top 5 stack. My table was playing 6 handed. I opened utg 1 with AQ and the only guy that had me covered flatted the button. This seemed like business as usual as I was opening a fair amount and the player on the button was playing a lot of pots. A good aggro player in the big blind shipped his 20 bb stack. At this point I felt like I was way ahead of the flat from the button and the squeeze from a thinking player in the big blind. I iso shoved with my AQ with little thought and didn’t hold against the button’s AA.. Pretty huge cooler. given the previous action, the pattern in this hand, and the fact that he was the only guy that had me covered at the table. I’m pretty sure I’m burning money if I don’t shove there…oh well. The great thing about the internet is you can always fire up another one.
In more important news, my Clemson Tigers beat up on FSU Saturday night. If we win out in conference we will play ACC Championship in Tampa sometime in December. That’s a road trip I want to take. Hopefully we can avoid the trap games and take it down.
Good luck at the tables,
Jeremy