Lucky 7

So this has been an exciting last couple of days. I have really been starting to get into the flow on mtt's, understanding specific levels and when to make appropriate moves against specific players.

I had dinner with the family back in the Chicago suburbs on Saturday and talked to my uncle for a while about work an then on to poker. Talked about how i'm going to be moving to vegas or so-cal to follow my love for poker. The conversation led to the fact that I am 24, no wife or house, pretty much nothing to stop me from taking a shot at poker full time. As I explained my mindset and how I have been playing poker to pay bills in the last couple of months it seems like an easy decision.

This is an exciting time, getting to a level where I consider myself a favorite in many of the games I play, except for the occasional "real" pro.(real as I mean makes a good living playing cards, not just getting by)

So back to this weekend, wake up early on Sunday morning to get on the train and back home to satellite in the Sunday million (210buyin)and also the Ftops Main event (500+50). Made it deep in the sunday million $8 rebuy satellite, got down to the final 300, 70 people get seats, 44 vs a7 with a stack of about 4m and he hit his ace. played in a 33 dollar sat to the Sunday Million, poor finish there as my internet lagged out for 15 minutes and i got blinded down in the turbo.

Also I could put money on to ftp and a good pro friend of mine I haven't talked to a while was my one source to put money on there, but no harm no foul, I 'm looking forward to depositing the 600 to get the 600 bonus.

Anyways to the fun stuff, played in my 2nd plo tourney, this one was a $15+1 with about 160 people. I played pretty well, the structure was good and the players were average i would say.(coming from my limited experience/knowledge of PLO)

I don't have much notes as I was multitabling at the time along with not having pokertracker-omaha. I was weilding my big stack pretty well and got down to the final table. Finished in 7th for a cool $62.15. Not bad from 1.95 left over from all the satellites that i put into a 1.75 horse 18man tourney sng and won that for 9.85. Then turned that 9.85 into 51 in $25 max, 6max plo. It was pretty cool as I was figureing out during this cash game what is was all about having positon on a fairly bad player and disguising hands and going for a big raise on the river and getting paid off, letting him keep firing and then catching something small on the river to lose against my flopped nuts.

So i'm sitting down Monday night, actually I ran home to get into the 3rebuy on stars I've finished in 60th place in that out of 3000 before for $60 bucks, first place got 12k it was pretty cool but it runs really long and is a crap shoot. Jumped into a bunch of tourney's- 90 man $12 turbo, $3rebuy, $22rebuy, and a $5rebuy with a $25 add-on at the break for 5k in chips. Internet went down so I had to leave my 63" dlp in my room to go play in the family room. Bust out of the 90 man 6 from the money, bust out of the rebuy after 3 buyins lose interest and heart in that tourney getting riverd twice. The $22 rebuy I got blinded down about 1/3 my stack and couldn't recover after the internet issue. But the $5 rebuy was pretty lively, bad players lot's of rebuy's and all in's preflop. The guy next to me pushed preflop a couple times in a row, so I did a rebuy to get to max stack, waited for him, and got busted with qq vs a4, rebought double so i'm in for 20. Take it easy couple of double ups and most of the time I'm about 1/2-2/3 average chip stacks. Then the break came with 300 players left from the starting 600.

204 players bought the $25 addon for 5k in chips. With how I was playing and how poorly the other players were playing I decided against buying the add-on, along with the fact i had no money in my stars account.(great br management**). Tourney started backup, played some more tag style and did pretty well, there were some loose chips after the add-on and I doubled up twice to 20k in chips, just around average with about 200 people left. Got my stack down to around 12k, found pocket jacks 3 times in the next 10 hands, took down to pots preflop with all in bets in mid position that were good size, then the 3rd time I got called.

Got down to the bubble of 90 players with a pretty healthy stack about 2x the average. Got down to 11 players with really tight play and pushing around my big stack pretty well. I got to short stacks all in and dropped them both with kk.

Hit the final table with 8 players after the break, i'm 2nd in chips with 700k with first place at 734,000. Ran into the big stack on the first hand, aj vs his raise of my bb. I called, we checked it down and I won with ajhigh vs his k10, now i have the chip lead. Another short stack get's busted out and were at 7, i'm 1st in chips again and picking up a lot of free pots preflop. The guy next to me a$$a$$in(my right) starts pushing 3 hands in a row. The 4th time it was my bb, he had 300k behind I had 725k behind. I sit there with aq and snap call, run into kk and no ace saves me. Get short, win a couple position all in's vs mid stacks. Make a couple of position raises against some good players with big stacks and fold a sb all in of my bb with k10, I should have snap called but I was waiting for a big hand. Later I raised on the button and the sb put me all in, I had kq with an m of about 5. Shouldve snap called there. Finally I get all in with a9s vs 22 and that is it for me 7th place and 612bucks for a 20 buyin.

I was mad as I slammed my notebook closed, roomated Jules Crew who has been watching most of the final two tables says "hey man, did you like your play?" I respond with yeah. Then you did great, no super mistakes besides tighting up way to much now with big k's with a short stack but that's something I have learned from and now I have some money to work on my game, looking to try some more sng's as that was my bread and butter during my ftp 8x table days.

Overall it's been a good couple of days even though I bubbled the sunday million sats the last 5 weeks. I'll try to write these soon after the tourney's and get more info for you guys.

Thanks,

KmOn