Update

Although I'm getting tired of this snow, I cannot complain too much, because on thursday it enabled me to enter some MTTs during the day because school was closed, and I had success. Made the final table of the $10 rebuy with 2700 runners. I came into the FT as chip leader. Just like most final tables play was tight at first, but then since it was a 10 minute level tournament, players started to get knocked out quickly, and one guy hit a heater and took over CL. He was a good player, 3 betting, raising a lot, doing the normal things a big stack should do. With 4 left. I raised on button with 1010, big stack shoved from big blind and I snap called. Hand is as follows:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PompYouUp [Ts Th]
Sheriff_20: folds
PompYouUp: raises 172500 to 322500
zmeyga: folds
jackellwood: raises 7356948 to 7679448 and is all-in
PompYouUp: calls 3229370 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (4127578) returned to jackellwood
*** FLOP *** [Kh Qc 7d]
*** TURN *** [Kh Qc 7d] [Ah]
*** RIVER *** [Kh Qc 7d Ah] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jackellwood: shows [8s As] (a pair of Aces)
PompYouUp: shows [Ts Th] (a pair of Tens)
jackellwood collected 7238740 from pot

:( Unfortunately it couldn't hold for almost 50% of the chips in play. GG me in 4th place. for $5k. Other than that have really done much. Ran pretty bad sunday, didn't play a ton of tournaments, and went 0 for. Quads were hit on me 3 times, maybe 4. Wasn't a fun day.

Going backwards now, I played in a live $150 buy in on Saturday, starting with 56 people. I have some funny stories/hands for you guys. Blinds 300 600, couple limpers and 2 people in blinds, so 2400 in the pot.(one of the limpers is VERY tight, if he shoves all in pre-flop, he has monster, post flop he has good hand). Flop comes A Q 4 with all hearts. Tight player just jams for 10,500. Guy thinks and calls, other 2 fold. Tight player says I have a set and flips over 44, guy that called goes "I have a set too", and flips over 1010, LOL. That's not a set buddy. I didn't misunderstand him, because the other people right around me thought he said the same thing.

Blinds 400/800, I raise to 2400 with AKsuit UTG. Small blind and big blind call. Flop comes 7 5 2 rainbow. Both check I bet 4k, small blind who was donk/aggro (same guy as "set with 1010") min raises to 8k, other guy folds and it comes back around to me. I only have about 10,700 behind, and I was pretty convinced that this guy didn't really have anything, like just overs. Not even a pair because he would prob call with that since he would have odds, based on his history. So I jam for another 10,500 and he snap calls, I say, ahhh I have nothing, he says "I have nothing either and flips over 63os for a gutshot, haha. Turn comes ace and takes away his lives and river brick I double.

Blinds 500/1000, I have about 50k I think, from a 16k starting stack. Couple limpers, I bump it up to 4500 with AQ, small blind calls, everyone else folds. Flop comes Q 8 5, with 2 hearts. Guy open jams for 36k!!! I think for a little bit. This was the same guy that 3rd hand of tournament. Bet a J 8 5 flop, and over-jammed the turn which was a 4 I think. He went to muck his hand and it was accidently flipped, and he had KQ, no draws. So I call even though I only have 4500 invested, and he has just J9 for a gutshot, lol. He bricked and I scoop the pot.

There was this one player, which it seemed like it was his first time playing poker. He was to my left when we were down to final 2 tables. blinds 3/6k, he has 23k total. He limps for 6k, some guy makes it 18k, guy in the blinds calls, limper with 23k JUST CALLS leaves himself with 5k(kinda like a Frank move for those of you who know him, without the same plan on the flop, lol) So anyway, flop comes w.e idr. he checks, guy who raised preflop jams, other guy folds, and guy with 5k left FOLDS!!!! Also i can't remember if it was after he doubled twice or before the hand i just explained, but he was in BB for 6k with 4k behind, and folded to a button raise. Not bad IMO. I ended up min cashing for $500, while jeff owned and won the tournament.

Switching topics, school is still going well, got a 95 on my first accounting exam. Ship. 2 other classes are a breeze so far. Loaded another 6k into my mutual funds, and thats been going up lately. Hopefully it can keep it up, and I can keep final tabling mtts. Hope everyone is off to a strong start this year
Good luck

-pomp