I like U2, so don't judge me or the title, and get your head out of the gutter. So Sunday and Monday were poker days for me, big tourneys, big fields, big prize pools, and a bigger the usual bankroll.
I have been trying to get into the Sunday million for the last two months, as I would never buy in to the $210 event as it would eat up most of my br. After probably $150 in satellites that I bought into and probably re bought a few times, and bubbled more times then I have fingers on one hand. I made it after this close spot.
I'm in a $36 turbo tourney there's about 400 players in there with 68 seats available to the sunday million. I play pretty well, tag is my usual tourney style. Get down close the the end, and we hit the break, i'm doing fairly well in chips 45 out of 80, but the blinds are about to go up to 600/1200 with 10nte and my stack is around 4800. after an orbit and no hands I am left with 2000 on the big blind, it's a10 and i'm committed with 6 people to go to the bubble. It's suited and the sb goes for a steal, I call and my ace high holds up. Getting down to the nit and gritty I have 2000 chips again with 2 places until we get our seats i'm in cut-off +2 with qq, I have to decided if I should risk bubbling with a pretty strong hand that will be called most times and maybe be 3 way action, there were 4 people below me in chips and I didn't know if they were in the blinds or not. After hitting time and thinking about should I go for it now or try to wait out two hands and hopefully these0 a guys get knocked out. I decided to go for the fold and prey that the bubble boy was ready to pop. I was right and when that hand was over I had made the Sunday Million for the first time and a chance to win over 200k for first place.
Besides that I played in a lot of $5-$16 mtt's. I've started cashing in a fair amount of them maybe 1/3, but the problem is I'm usually short stacked or with about 4-10 bb when i hit the bubble. I can usually outlast all the money maniacs who push with any ace or any pp once they get into the money. But I have had a problem in getting my way to the good money, I have been placing enough to make double or triple my money, but I need to start getting into more final tables and maybe win one in a while.
Besides that I'm happy with my play overall. I have learned a lot this weekend about some of my strengths and weaknesses, Ran pretty bad in PLO playing $50 max and $100 max. Couldn't get any action when I made a hand and missed every draw that was ever possible.
Got a couple books on the way, i'll be doing some reviews soon.
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