Deep Run in Warmup

The day following where I came in 2nd in the $109 mtt, I made my deepest run in a major. I ended up finishing in 14th for $4,200. I made a shove from the SB for 13 bbs with 44 into a 15 bb stack, and he went into the tank for about a minute before calling with K10 suit, this was also the first time I was all in at this table. In most other tournaments I would say this is a good call, but I don't know about him putting almost his whole stack in with just k10 suit this deep in the warmup, I could be wrong, but that's what I thought. By the way, he flopped a floosh. Played in the milly too, got it all in with 1010 pf to KJos somehow for a 100 bb pot I think an hour or so into the tournament, and he turned a king. Other than that couldn't really get much going on sunday. Since then been running well, netting a little over 2k the past few days, without any big scores in mtts. Along with this, in my next session i'll have earned enough vpps to get my $1500 bonus. I was thinking about treating myself to something cool, but I think i might save more then I usually do for this summer because there's definitely some stuff I want to do. Go skydiving, roadtrip down to ATL to see the Braves play with a friend or 2. And If the Lakers play in the finals(hopefully rematch with Boston and because it's a shorter trip) buy tickets to at least one finals game. One thing I'm trying to work on in my heads up, is berating fish a lot less. #1 I usually only do it when i'm running bad and getting frustrated. #2 It really does absolutley nothing, and I don't know why I do it. I want them to keep doing what their doing, because in the long run I will profit. #3 All it does is give them a rise, and amuse them. Tell them "nh" and pray they accept a rematch. Unfortunately I'm not going to play as many MTTs this weekend as I would like to. Saturday I have to pick up the parents from the airport in the evening, kinda right in the middle of everything, and sunday I have work. Gonna try to do some convincing to my parents to let me quit, as in the long run, I make more in poker, much more. That's it for now. GL

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Quick update

I usually won't be updating on back to back days, but since I had a decent score figured I would. I had to wake up at 6am to drive my parents to the airport. I got back home at about 9:30 and got in the $100 mtt that started at 9am. I was very pleased with the way I played. I got lucky in a couple spots but never for my whole stack. After a little HU play I took a nice lead, about 690k-180k. Ended up getting it all in with top pair vs 2 pair, not much as I could do about it in my opinion considering i think I disguised my ace pretty well. He then went on a heater and the final hand suckeddd. For some reason it won't let me post it here so, I limped with K9, he 3xd I called, flop came Q J 3, he lead out and I called, turn came 10 for the straight, he bet bigger, I jammed and he called with QJ, river queen bird. oh well, GG me. Ship $4,350. I was happy with the way I played, and maybe my downswing is over. I also donated an additional $200 to Haiti Looking forward to playing in a bunch of sunday tournies tomorrow.

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Haiti

It's pretty devistating to see what's happening over in Haiti, them being a poor country obviously isn't helping. So far i've donated $50. Hopefully I can escape this bad run i'm on and donate a little more. I'm also going to look through all my clothes and see what I don't need any more and donate some clothes too. I just started school at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey last week, and it seems okay so far. As for poker i've been running pretty awful in both mtts and hu sngs, more in MTTs though. Just the standard non stop riv 2 outers, coolers etc, hoping this run doesn't last too long. I just bought a new laptop and its pretty sweet. It's an Asus Intel Core with i3 processor or some other. Really needed a new one, as my other one was old/falling apart. I am probably going to try to register for the WBCOOP, but will only be able to play in 1 or 2 because of school. That's it for now, good luck everyone

Bahamas

Although I bricked pretty hard at PCA, the trip was fun. The 1k freezeout, I couldn't really get anything going at was down to 10 bbs at 150/300, and within about 30 minutes I got my stack up to roughly 11,500. I raised it up with AK utg+1 to 2.5x. An aggro donk bumped it up to 3500 in mid position, it came back around to me and and I took about 5 seconds before shoving and he snap called with 99. I would have loved to win this pot to put me at 60-65 bbs at a pretty weak table, but unfortunately I couldn't win the flip. Myself, Jeff, and Tylor were all knocked out within 30 minutes, so we went back to our room took a nap. Later that night we went to the sportsbar, played some beerpong and did a bunch of shots. We headed over to the Atlantis and went to the nightclub Aura. We were there for a bit, we added a Long Island to our system and we were pretty drunk by now. We went over to roulette for a little, i started with $100 bucks ended up some money after a couple spins. Jeff asked me for $100 because he didn't have any cash on him so I gave it to him. He put it all on "17". He said, "if it comes out 17, i'm sprinting." I had to put $5 on 17 also. The spin comes, and what do you know 17 hits, and jeff just books. We were all so stoked. $100 into $3500 in 1 spin. And in addition i had $5 on it for $175. He didn't even bet anymore to push his luck. He had a pretty good reason to bet on 17 if you ask me. Someone asked, why did you bet 17? He goes "Well my favorite numbers are 7 and 13, so i bet 17." Good logic IMO, lol. The next day I don't even remember what we did, I think we just chilled and recouped from the night before. The next day i played in the $1K hu live event. Each round was a best of 3. I wasn't VERY unhappy with the way I had played in the first round, but I could have played better, but I was still fortunate to win 2-1. First match of the next HU, I made a pretty loose check raise shove after 3 betting from the BB with JJ, with a queen flopping. He called with a queen. I turned straight and flush draw outs, and I hit the river and went up 1-0. The 2nd match was kinda even till this hand. At 75/150 i got it all in preflop with KK to 88, and he rivered an 8, it would have put me into round 3 as I had him covered by very little. The rubber match I just couldn't get anything going. I never really hit a hand, and he never gave me credit, calling down with ace high a couple times. Not really sure if he started to become a station or if I had tells. I ended up getting it in on a flip and lost, gg me. The next day was the $650 bounty, and it was GG me in 3 hands. I flopped a set of 9s on a A98 board, I bet, got 1 caller, turn was a 2, ended up getting it all in vs. A2, and river ace, awesome. Not referring to any of the hands I have talked about, but I had expected the players to be a tad better then what I had noticed hey were. For instance in the $200 turbo. blinds a 100 200 I have about 4500, there's 1 limper, I look down at JJ, bump it up to 750, this kid in he small blind, who literally had not played 1 hand in about an hour, bumps it up to 2500, leaves himself with about 2300. I can never fold here with 18 bbs behind in a TURBO so I put the rest of my stack in and he calls, he has a strong hand known as KQ, lol. I lose gg me. I mean after not playing 1 hand in hour, KQ is apparently the nuts. I could list so many other hands but it's pointless. But I'm glad I was able to get some live experience under my belt, especially before the WSOP. Overall the trip was great and we had a lot of fun. I will definitely be going back next year. All pictures from the trip are up on facebook if you're interested. Tomorrow I'll be back to the online poker grind. lets do this.

P.S. My posts will almost never be this long again.

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Bahamas

Bahamas is pretty good so far aside from the weather. It's either been windy or cloudy just about every day except 1. We went swimming with the dolphins which was awesome, a lot better then what I did in Punta Cana years ago. Also went on the water slides at the Atlantis and they were pretty cool. We've taken a ton of pictures and i'm sure they will be up on facebook soon. The girls leave 2morrow afternoon and that's when a majority of our poker starts. Myself, jeff, and tylor are playing in the $1k freezeout 2morrow. Hopefully we can ship. I played the $200 turbo Monday night but bricked. Also played a couple $120 SNG's, lost the first, and won the next for $500. Pretty soft sngs IMO. I'll try to post updates each night from here on out, but not sure if i'll be able to do that. GL me tomorrow

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Good start to 2010

Off to a pretty good start. Finished 3rd in the $25+2.50 freeze out for roughly $3500. Good start to both a nice profit, and my quest for Yearly top 100 TLB(Tournament Leaderboard). I had my hand history e-mailed to me and i reviewed the hands and overall was pretty satisfied with the way I played. Believe it or not, during the course of the tournament, I was NEVER at risk for my tournament life, until we were 6-7 handed at the final table. I have 2 prop bets with this kid beaver032. First bet is $200 on who profits more in MTT's and SNG's(using sharkscope) in 2010. The next is, I have $100 that he will NOT profit $100k in SNG's and MTT(sharkscope also) 2010. Other than that I really haven't played much the last few days with new years and getting ready for Bahamas. I can't wait and I"m leaving in a few hours. I'll update as much as possible while i'm there. Good luck

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