Well, it's been a complete 180 since my last post. Everything I lost from my downswing I got back + more. Final Tabling the $50 nightly 70k certainly helped out. I just can't seem t0 finish the job in this tournament. This is the 4th time i've final tabled it since august I think. I've finished 2nd, 4th, 8th, and just the other night, 5th. Kind of cooler hand to get knocked out, 6 handed utg SS shoved for 9 bbs, I rejammed on button for 22 bbs with AKsuit, and small blind picked up kings, pot was for 33% of chips but I couldn't hit, but did ship $3800.
Heads ups have also been a sick turnaround. I'm dealing with tilt a lot better, playing slower and smarter, and not 2 tabling as much, and also have more confidence. I'm also now in the top 1000 for yearly TLB. Also will probably be playing a bunch of mtts the rest of the month as i'm in 379th for February. Another sick turnaround has been my High Yield mutual fund. Since my last post its gone up 14 cents a share I think, i'll probably be buying more shares of that soon. Hopefully this little streak can last a little while. good luck
pomp
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
When it Rains it Pours
Up until last night, the title basically says it all. Seems like many things are going wrong lately. I have a mutual fund in trowe price, and the market has been doing awful. Over the last 3 weeks, I think it has gone down about a quarter a share. Having about 2400 shares, thats a decent amount of money. As for poker, I haven't been just running bad, i've been running insanely bad. Just non-stop normal running bad stuff in both mtts and hus. I am going to say something, and am going to try to hold my self to this. I will NEVER play the $102 heads up hyper turbo mtt. NEVER. I've lost so much in that tournament, and have never placed.
Yesterday though seemed like a turnaround in heads ups, I think I went 17-10 in 110s and 1-0 in 220s. MTTs have been the same stuff. I had about 24k at 400/800 right before the money in the nightly 100k. And called a guys all in for about 11500 with AA. He had AQos. Flop was bad to start. It came with all spades, and a queen. He had the ace of spades and I obviously had no spade. Turn blank, river spade. Would have had about 45BB stack going into money, racing for a 26k first prize. Gonna stay on the grind though. I also did make a final table in the $10 rebuy a few nights ago out of 2200 people. I only came in 9th though for about 700. Couldn't hit KJ vs A8. I'm in 1237th place on the yearly TLB, and 364th right now for the monthly TLB. I'm also really excited to play in the Sunday 4 Mil, should be an insanely huge field.
good luck
-pomp
Yesterday though seemed like a turnaround in heads ups, I think I went 17-10 in 110s and 1-0 in 220s. MTTs have been the same stuff. I had about 24k at 400/800 right before the money in the nightly 100k. And called a guys all in for about 11500 with AA. He had AQos. Flop was bad to start. It came with all spades, and a queen. He had the ace of spades and I obviously had no spade. Turn blank, river spade. Would have had about 45BB stack going into money, racing for a 26k first prize. Gonna stay on the grind though. I also did make a final table in the $10 rebuy a few nights ago out of 2200 people. I only came in 9th though for about 700. Couldn't hit KJ vs A8. I'm in 1237th place on the yearly TLB, and 364th right now for the monthly TLB. I'm also really excited to play in the Sunday 4 Mil, should be an insanely huge field.
good luck
-pomp
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Sunday
First I want to start out by saying R.I.P Aunt Catty. She passed away this weekend. Her kidneys were failing and it was just a matter of time. She really was one of the nicest old lady's you would ever meet. Everyone in her family loved her. She lived with her brother, since neither of them ever married anyone. There was a tradition that they had every Christmas Eve. I think it's been going on for 25years or so. Every Christmas eve a majority of her close family would come over and spend the evening. Exchange gifts, have dessert and coffee and catch up with family that we don't see that often. I'm not sure how long this tradition will continue now that she's gone, but I assume we will do it at least one more year in honor of her.
Superbowl sunday was fun. I did a bunch of props on the superbowl and think I came out a little ahead. Also had 100 on the saints so I won that too. My dad and I split a superbowl box that he hit for 200. And Thanks to the interception return for touchdown, and that Saints holding the Colts in the redzone, I won the final score box that I split with my Dad and hi friend, which paid a little under 2k, so i'll be getting about 600 for that.
As for poker, I didn't play as many tournaments as I usually do on Sundays because i wasn't in the mood to 10 table, and I wanted to be able to watch the game. I came in 9th in the $200 HU tourney, which paid about 700, but I made a deal with the guy I lost too, so I got an extra 300 out of it. I also made a very deep run in the $10 Sunday 1/4 Mil. I ended up finishing in 18th out of 33,000 players!! No matter the strength of the field, thats a tough number of people to get through, and it'll be hard to do that again. 18th paid a little under 600 I think, with winner taking 27k. Besides that, haven't really played much besides late last night. I started off playing some 110s and moved to 220s, and went through a short period of time where I 2 tabled 220s. I was making some dumb moves, and getting frustrated because I was running real cold, and losing to players I shouldn't. I regrouped and went back to one table. After starting off 1-3 vs. a fish, I ended up winning 5 in a row, which brought me to about even for the day. I was suprised at how many times he rematched, unfortunately he stopped, because I would have loved to play for hours. I'll probably easily make top 1000 TLB for the month(which earns a ticket to a freeroll), as I stand at 245th right now. I would really like to make top 100 though as I never have, but at least top 200 because that qualifies for an automatic cash prize. Good luck
-pomp
Superbowl sunday was fun. I did a bunch of props on the superbowl and think I came out a little ahead. Also had 100 on the saints so I won that too. My dad and I split a superbowl box that he hit for 200. And Thanks to the interception return for touchdown, and that Saints holding the Colts in the redzone, I won the final score box that I split with my Dad and hi friend, which paid a little under 2k, so i'll be getting about 600 for that.
As for poker, I didn't play as many tournaments as I usually do on Sundays because i wasn't in the mood to 10 table, and I wanted to be able to watch the game. I came in 9th in the $200 HU tourney, which paid about 700, but I made a deal with the guy I lost too, so I got an extra 300 out of it. I also made a very deep run in the $10 Sunday 1/4 Mil. I ended up finishing in 18th out of 33,000 players!! No matter the strength of the field, thats a tough number of people to get through, and it'll be hard to do that again. 18th paid a little under 600 I think, with winner taking 27k. Besides that, haven't really played much besides late last night. I started off playing some 110s and moved to 220s, and went through a short period of time where I 2 tabled 220s. I was making some dumb moves, and getting frustrated because I was running real cold, and losing to players I shouldn't. I regrouped and went back to one table. After starting off 1-3 vs. a fish, I ended up winning 5 in a row, which brought me to about even for the day. I was suprised at how many times he rematched, unfortunately he stopped, because I would have loved to play for hours. I'll probably easily make top 1000 TLB for the month(which earns a ticket to a freeroll), as I stand at 245th right now. I would really like to make top 100 though as I never have, but at least top 200 because that qualifies for an automatic cash prize. Good luck
-pomp
Friday, February 5, 2010
Update
The last 4-5 days have been really rough. I've been going through a bad downswing of variance. I've just been running insanely awful. I have to admit, I have not been playing my A game in heads ups, so I need to get that back on track, but that shouldn't take too long. A couple of my worst hands are these($12 180 mans):
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PompYouUp [Qd Qh]
tihon7777: folds
Brezi26 is disconnected
Brezi26 has timed out while disconnected
Brezi26: folds
Brezi26 is sitting out
GKrae: folds
T-Macha: folds
lol TRICKED: folds
gena 77: raises 750 to 1000
UHave_3_Outs: folds
PokerKidBd: folds
PompYouUp: raises 2885 to 3885 and is all-in
gena 77: calls 1710 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1175) returned to PompYouUp
*** FLOP *** [2s 6d Jh]
*** TURN *** [2s 6d Jh] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [2s 6d Jh 6c] [5c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PompYouUp: shows [Qd Qh] (two pair, Queens and Sixes)
gena 77: shows [3d 4h] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
gena 77 collected 5770 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
and this one at the final table with 8 left, would have had almost half the chips in play with 7 left:
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PompYouUp [Ks Kc]
cockaburr: folds
bagnus: folds
Bhzour: folds
PompYouUp: raises 5750 to 9750
L.A. Vale 60: folds
MBaracus82: folds
slystyle12: raises 40438 to 50188 and is all-in
spankmenow: folds
PompYouUp: calls 40438
*** FLOP *** [8d 5s 7s]
*** TURN *** [8d 5s 7s] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [8d 5s 7s 7c] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
slystyle12: shows [6h 9d] (a straight, Six to Ten)
PompYouUp: shows [Ks Kc] (two pair, Kings and Sevens)
PompYouUp said, "hahahahahahahaha"
slystyle12 collected 107576 from pot
Like, I can't even complain about him making that move, because im going to win a high percentage of the time. But it's just funny how bad some of these people are. Gonna keep grinding and hopefully this run doesn't last too long.
As for other things, not too excited for the snow we are about to get here in Jersey. Also, school at Stockton College is going okay so far. Pretty much a breeze right now. My intro to research class we have been working on this easy music assignment to date. My Financial Accounting class is very easy so far because it's at least half of the Principles of Accounting class I took last semester at OCC. But I have to take it because I didn't take Principles of Accounting 2 at OCC, and this class is a combination of both. I look really smart in the class because im answering a majority of the questions in class. Also, I was pretty excited to find out, that the top 3 people in the class at the end of the 3 exams, do NOT have to take the final. So now I have some motive to try a little harder. And I'm already at an advantage from what I mentioned before. My Marketing Principles class is a joke, my professor is some 75 year old dude who can barely stand, who just rambles on all period and constantly goes off on tangents. Half the people in the class don't even pay attention. 1 girl reads a novel, 2 girls just talk, 2 are on their phone the whole time, and I do sudokus. Pretty excited to see what the exams are going to be like, lol.
Back to poker, January was a good month, as my cashouts were a little over 6k. I beleive I'm on a decent pace right now for 300k vpps, but I think it's way to early to be doing calculations as to my avg vpp/day and how many I need per day on average. Hope everyone has had a good start to 2010. good luck
-pomp
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PompYouUp [Qd Qh]
tihon7777: folds
Brezi26 is disconnected
Brezi26 has timed out while disconnected
Brezi26: folds
Brezi26 is sitting out
GKrae: folds
T-Macha: folds
lol TRICKED: folds
gena 77: raises 750 to 1000
UHave_3_Outs: folds
PokerKidBd: folds
PompYouUp: raises 2885 to 3885 and is all-in
gena 77: calls 1710 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1175) returned to PompYouUp
*** FLOP *** [2s 6d Jh]
*** TURN *** [2s 6d Jh] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [2s 6d Jh 6c] [5c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PompYouUp: shows [Qd Qh] (two pair, Queens and Sixes)
gena 77: shows [3d 4h] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
gena 77 collected 5770 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
and this one at the final table with 8 left, would have had almost half the chips in play with 7 left:
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PompYouUp [Ks Kc]
cockaburr: folds
bagnus: folds
Bhzour: folds
PompYouUp: raises 5750 to 9750
L.A. Vale 60: folds
MBaracus82: folds
slystyle12: raises 40438 to 50188 and is all-in
spankmenow: folds
PompYouUp: calls 40438
*** FLOP *** [8d 5s 7s]
*** TURN *** [8d 5s 7s] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [8d 5s 7s 7c] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
slystyle12: shows [6h 9d] (a straight, Six to Ten)
PompYouUp: shows [Ks Kc] (two pair, Kings and Sevens)
PompYouUp said, "hahahahahahahaha"
slystyle12 collected 107576 from pot
Like, I can't even complain about him making that move, because im going to win a high percentage of the time. But it's just funny how bad some of these people are. Gonna keep grinding and hopefully this run doesn't last too long.
As for other things, not too excited for the snow we are about to get here in Jersey. Also, school at Stockton College is going okay so far. Pretty much a breeze right now. My intro to research class we have been working on this easy music assignment to date. My Financial Accounting class is very easy so far because it's at least half of the Principles of Accounting class I took last semester at OCC. But I have to take it because I didn't take Principles of Accounting 2 at OCC, and this class is a combination of both. I look really smart in the class because im answering a majority of the questions in class. Also, I was pretty excited to find out, that the top 3 people in the class at the end of the 3 exams, do NOT have to take the final. So now I have some motive to try a little harder. And I'm already at an advantage from what I mentioned before. My Marketing Principles class is a joke, my professor is some 75 year old dude who can barely stand, who just rambles on all period and constantly goes off on tangents. Half the people in the class don't even pay attention. 1 girl reads a novel, 2 girls just talk, 2 are on their phone the whole time, and I do sudokus. Pretty excited to see what the exams are going to be like, lol.
Back to poker, January was a good month, as my cashouts were a little over 6k. I beleive I'm on a decent pace right now for 300k vpps, but I think it's way to early to be doing calculations as to my avg vpp/day and how many I need per day on average. Hope everyone has had a good start to 2010. good luck
-pomp
Monday, February 1, 2010
Final Table Nightly 70k
A couple nights ago I final tabled the nighlty 70k, $50 buy in with 1500+ runners. Was getting a min of 1k, with 1st taking $13.5k. I came into the final table with 35 bbs or so. I was very happy with the way I had played up until this point. If I remember correctly, I was never all in for my tournament life the entire tournament until I was elimanated(and maybe the first hour of the tournament), and I never really won a huge pot being way behind. About 10 minutes into the final table, with 8 people left, I raise it to 2.5x with QQ utg+1, next guy insta jams for over 25 bbs, everyone folds, and I snap call, he has AQ and flopped an ace. I woulda had about 1.1 mil chips(25% of chips in play) and been chip leader. Couple hands later I was real short and got it all in with 22 vs JJ, i flopped a 2, turn jack, lol. :( Decent score of $1700. Other than that haven't really played many mtts, couldn't play any sunday because of work. But next sunday should be fun as i'll be playing a bunch of mtts, and watching the superbowl. Today and tomorrow i'm going to try to qualify for the super tuesday. If I don't, if i can go on a nice run in hu's I might buy in, with having some friends take some action. Today i've played maybe 6 heads up, and I guess you can say I ran pretty bad so I just stopped playing until after I get back from class tonight. Got 3 outered a bunch of times, and hit top pair or better maybe 6 times in couple hundred hands. So I just decided to call it quits. good luck
-pomp
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