been playing online MTTs.......

i been wanting to play more MTTs, so for the last 3 days i played online... been doing ok, made 4 final tables, but no big scores, but up about $2k in 3 days.

not much to brag about, but will be soon. lol

also WSOP, either Friday or Saturday, or both..... ME is also getting close.....

early bustout

busted at end of 1st level when KK ran into AA all in preflop.

i also got killed in cash games today. just ran shitty.

wsop

i didn't play today, wasn't feeling good and didn't get enough sleep. gonna go play cash for a few hours, and I'm gonna make sure i get plenty of sleep tonight so i will for sure play tomorrow's event.

the chop, and tomorrow....

the chop at the Bellagio... chopping is something i never ever like to do, and this was the 2nd time i have ever chopped.

we had 5 players left, the biggest stack had 151k, i had 149k, 3rd guy had like 135k, next dude had 100k, short guy had like 60k (i think).

under normal circumstances i never chop here, but blinds were 2000/4000, and the 2 big stacks were pretty good players and one was very loose aggressive. and the 2 shorter guys were playing to tight, so we were gonna have big pots with shorties waiting us out. i struggle with big stack verses real aggressive players. also, i used to not need the money, and now i do. i used to not need poker money to pay my bills and lately if it wasn't for poker, my mortgage would not be paid.

i still kind of regret chopping, because i think i could had won... but then i remind myself i needed the money and i just won like 3 coin flips, and i could easily lose the next 1 or 2 with the short stacks.

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as for tomorrow, i am almost positive i will be playing the $1500 WSOP event.

not sure if i will see him tomorrow, but thanks CC
for the updates and pictures, very awesome man.

wsop didnt work out so well. but good news.

i busted pretty quick at day 2, probably in about 20 minutes or so. i raised 1st in on the button, mueller was in the big blind and was threatening me while i was counting my chips "you already took to long". i still raised to about 11k with blinds 1500/3000 -500, with A9. small blind instantly reraised me for most of my stack (mueller folded and laughed "told you, you were taking to long"), he had over 100k, i had just over 40k. i felt i was priced in and put all my chips in the pot.

small blind had 33, flop came 838, GG me. was a big pot, and i win this flip, i am sitting nice... oh well.

afterwords, i grabbed some nachos from the poker kitchen, and waited for a few friends to come on over. me and ZaiGezunt sat in a 2/5nl game, which we both killed. we ran very hot, i took an extra $1400 off of table and he took about $1800 in about 2 or 3 hours.

we then decided to go play the bellagio $1k nightly. it was me, Zai, and Mag: they both donked out early. i got bad beat with about 13 players left to lose a big chunk of my stack JJ to A8 all in pre. then same guy open shoved a few hands later and i had AQ, so i shoved, dude behind me also shoved. open shover had KK and over shove/caller, had AQ as well. KK held, and i was crippled.

i stole blinds a few times, then i made the final table, and got UTG just as i paid the big blind last hand. so after i pay the extra blinds, i have maybe 4 big blinds at final table. 10 left and 9 pay. i played perfect SNG strategy, picked up blinds a few times real fast. and again the next round. then i won a coin flip with 5 big blinds... and won another, started catching some cards, next thing i knew i was in 2nd place with 146k and 5 players left. they offered a 5 way chop, which i accepted for almost $22k.

so all in all a fun and a nicely profitable day.