Week 4/5

This is a combined update for the past 2 or 3 weeks. I forgot to post when i left for spring break, and now it is the end of another week, but i did not count spring break as a week in the challenge. I have now made the determination that i play like GARBAGE when i use T$, It's like play money to me. So from now on, when/if i win a million or any other satty, I will use that towards that tourny or another like the warmup or 2nd chance.

Some of you may know, I won another $4.40 180 player on stars for another +200 cash. This was by far the most fun tournament i have ever played. At 100/200 + 25 antes, I lost a race for most of my stack and i was left with 350ish chips UTG with A6, I tripled against AK and KJ obv, then doubled again with QJ dd vs 66. I played very maniac agressive on both bubbles, and it was so much fun. Even tho i was hung over and very exhausted from getting back from florida the previous day.

As for my plans, I am going to keep the winnings online and give the $10 180 players a good shot. $500 is a decent bank roll for it, but i just hate how they dont fill as much. I'll also mix in a $10 MTT and the $3 rebuy with a $15 limit.

Weekly Profit $83.36
Total Profit $345.12
Amount to go: $2,238.24

Tournaments won: 3
To go: 3

Week 3

This week since the win of the triple shootout, I honestly haven't played much and really havent cashed since then. I started up a spreadsheet tracking my daily play, along with ROI calculated per tournament, daily, and weekly. I have won 2 tournaments since the start of this goal and i set a goal of 3 to start. I am going to up the goal to winning 6 tournaments by graduation including a win of over 1k entrants.


Weekly Profit $142.17
Total Profit $261.76
Amount to go: $2,238.24

Tournaments won: 2
To go: 4

It doesnt matter if you win by an inch or a mile....

Winning's winning!!!

So I might have played the best poker I ever have last night in qualifying for my 4th seat in the sunday million by ways of a $3.30 Triple Shooout. I have not reviewed the entire tourny yet via PXF, but my final table play was pretty maniac esque. Like BCM11 said, SNGs aren't poker, they are a video game. And last night i basically beat the final boss in winning this seat. Which unfortunately I will not be able to play, even tho there is an extra $500k added by stars for the 1 year anny of the tournament. I have fraternity stuff at 7pm on Sunday not to mention the drive back to Athens from Cleveland. I will use this excess BR to start to mix in the $10 180 players. I think my $500ish BR will sustain the mix of both 4.40s, 11s and $5 and under freezeouts. Here is the closing hand by which the top 3 finishers got the seat:

Seat 1: lilOUmikey (2480 in chips)
Seat 3: EduardoBerto (1132 in chips)
Seat 4: SocietyRed (3475 in chips)
Seat 5: Luggie34 (1913 in chips)
lilOUmikey: posts small blind 75
EduardoBerto: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to lilOUmikey [Kc 6d]
SocietyRed: folds
Luggie34: folds
lilOUmikey: raises 1350 to 1500
EduardoBerto: calls 982 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Kh Ts 2h]
*** TURN *** [Kh Ts 2h] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [Kh Ts 2h Js] [4s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
lilOUmikey: shows [Kc 6d] (a pair of Kings)
EduardoBerto: shows [4d Ad] (a pair of Fours)
lilOUmikey said, "gg all"
lilOUmikey collected 2264 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2264 Rake 0
Board [Kh Ts 2h Js 4s]
Seat 1: lilOUmikey (small blind) showed [Kc 6d] and won (2264) with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: EduardoBerto (big blind) showed [4d Ad] and lost with a pair of Fours
Seat 4: SocietyRed folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Luggie34 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Yes maniac push but BAD CALL as well, sure i did it twice in a row before, but honestly WHAT CAN HE BEAT OR BE FAR AHEAD OF THERE!?!? Ship

oh one more thing,

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Week 2, Better

As you can tell, I did take down a 4.40 for $216 to get me out of a huge varience rut. The following night, I think the next 4.40 i played, i got 3rd for $86. It felt great to get back to my winning ways, and I think i am playing better because of it. Playing with confidence is the key. Thinking that your AK will not hold against AJ is not a good mindset. Think as if you played well enough to get in ahead, and if you don't win that one, youll get the other 70% of them. Sure there are frustrating times that you need the hand to hold, but the odds dont give a shit about where your at in your tourny.

I did not play much today, a few 4.40s and 2.20 triple shootouts for the million, so many bad players in those on sundays you just gotta take shots at them. I did play in the $3R, paid $6 total, and made it into the 2nd hour, but AK is not as good as AJ like stated above. I won't play these often if at all at this current BR, i just wanted to play a tourny at the time, and gave myself a $9 limit. Until I get my BR over $400, i will stick to $5 and under freezeouts, $4.40s and the occasional 7.70 PL 360 max (bread and butter as i call it)

Weekly Profit: $163.97
Total Profit: $119.59
Amount to go: $2,380.41

99th Element on the Periodic Table

SHIPTONIUM!!!


So after working concessions for my business frat last night until 930ish, which the crowd was like 8k hillbillys, I came to donk off the rest of the $40 diminishing BR until the sickness began. I played pretty decent and got the breaks needed to win a tourny, tried to steal from a limper with 34os from the button, SB woke up with JJ, and limper had AK, flop was 744, NOT A PROBLEM. I was due to say the least, and im sure a lot of the losses were due to overthinking the donks of the $4.40. Lesson learned to say the least. I will further ellaborate tomorrow on my weekly challenge update with more of a recap of the week.