Sunday, February 10, 2008

Hello, Future Self

Before I ever started this blog, I remember Ray Coburn mentioning to me that one of his favorite reasons for keeping a blog is so that someday you can go back and read your old entries. Fittingly, a quote on his blog which I believe is from Donnie Darko says, "If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories."

With the spirit of that in mind, here's an entry that probably no one will ever give two shits about other than myself in a year or so.

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I've got about six hours before the first of these kick off. But if you read the last entry, apparently pokering on little sleep isn't exactly my Achilles' heel.

I'm probably going to play something like:

11:45 am: Sunday Warm-Up ($215)
12:00 pm: FTP $75 6-Max
12:00 pm: Bodog $30k ($109)
1:00 pm: FTOPS VII Event #8 - $120 6-Max Knockout
2:30 pm: Stars Hundred Grand ($11)
3:00 pm: Stars $10 Rebuy
3:00 pm: Bodog $100k ($109)
3:30 pm: Sunday Million ($215)
5:00 pm: FTOPS VII Event #9 - $322 $1M Guaranteed
6:00 pm: Cake $100k ($162)

Ideally I'll have 3-4 tables open most of the day, so I might throw in some smallish rebuy events here or there to keep my attention on the monitor. If I decide I still care about catering to my narcissistic tastes in reading, I'll update this post with the day's results when it's over.

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I didn't play exactly what I mentioned, but pretty close.

I finished 530th out of 6,000 in the FTOPS 6-Max Bounty (AQs < T9s ...puke), yet somehow that wasn't an in-the-money finish. They only paid 492.

The only two cashes I had were in the Sunday Warm-Up and the Sunday Million. In the Million, I barely finished ITM and just won pocket change. But in the Warm-Up, I took it pretty deep and finished 23rd (~$2,500). I was chipleader, or close to it for much of the time from 700 players left down to 150ish players left.

With about 30 players left, I think I made a pretty significant mistake. A regular MTTer shoved 9 bbs from the hijack and I folded A9o from the big blind. Truthfully, I had just finished going to the bathroom and was walking back to the couch with the laptop in my hand. I did some quick math that said it was close, but a fold. Afterwards, I realized the shoving range I put him on was way too tight. In actuality, A9o was 50% against the range I should have put him on. The range I did put him on had A9o at 41%. I needed about 42.5% to make the call.

After that fold, I ran completely card and situation dead until finally sticking in five big blinds with a baby ace and losing to pocket fives.

It's hard to complain about finishing that deep in a major online tournament. Hopefully someday I take it a little deeper.

Thanks for reading.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

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February 14, 2008 at 10:06 PM  

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