Ack, I just realized I haven't written up my weekly poker summaries (not that any of you probably care, hehe). Here's a quick two-for-one covering the past couple games, both of which were awesome!
Last week: I ended up placing 2nd of 13 with a pretty basic "fold to the money" strategy. I had a couple ups and downs but didn't really get going until we were 5-handed. At that point I managed to win a couple nice pots. The first was a 33% stack increase with trips and the second was a call of the short-stack's all-in with pocket queens that held up that nearly doubled me up.
By the time we were three-handed I was the short stack with about 25% of the chips in play. Fortunately, the two big stacks kept going after each other and I sat back and watched patiently. They eventually had an all-in moment and the shorter stack of the two was eliminated in 3rd place.
I was now at a chip disadvantage but a single double-up would get me even with him. Rather than doubling up through an all-in I did it by winning several modest pots instead. Ultimately, it didn't matter much as I ended up pushing all-in on a flush draw when he had top pair. His hand held up and that was all she wrote.
This week: I managed to take 1st place of 12 this week, which makes me tied for 1st place overall in our league with only three weeks left in the season! This game went much much different. I got huge early and stayed huge the whole game.
If someone had a flush, my flush was better. If someone had two-pair, my two-pair was better. If someone had a straight, I had a flush. If someone had trips, I had a straight. I literally came out ahead in 90% of the pots I played and when you're on that kind of roll, you're unstoppable.
The sickest hand of the night? The BB goes all-in blind for 2,700 at 400/800 blinds, which technically isn't allowed but we let it slide. I called with A-10 suited and three other callers came along. The flop comes A-10-10, which gave me a monster! I check, the guy to my left goes all-in for 26,000, the next guy folds, the last guy calls and has about 30k back.
Here's where I made an error. In my pant-peeing excitement, I instantly pushed all-in, which put him all-in. His face dropped, he gave me a suspicious look, which I can only expect revealed my glee, and he folded.
The initial guy had nothing, the flop pusher had Q-10, and the guy I pushed out had A-Q. What came on the turn? A queen. If I had just called on the flop and checked the turn I think the other guy would have shipped it and I would have won all his money too. Oh well, I still won an 85k pot there and had almost half the chips in play.
When I got to heads up, my opponent was up about 40k in chips (140k to my 100k) but over the next 25 minutes of patient play with small ups and downs I managed to cripple him with a straight. I put him all-in for 25k with J-8 offsuit against his pocket 4s and hit another straight to win it.
So, with 3 weeks left in this season I am tied for 1st place with 44.5k points (points convert to chips in the main event game). The 3rd place person is sitting 10k behind us at 34k, so we have a very nice lead. My main goal now is to outgrind my co-leader and earn my second straight 1st place season finish.
The prize? A huge stack for the main event game and a free buy-in. Woot.
Week 1: 3rd place of 12 ($15 profit / 6,500 points)
Week 2: 9th place of 12 ($15 loss / 1,000 points)
Week 3: 7th place of 13 ($15 loss / 2,000 points)
Week 4: 3rd place of 13 ($15 profit / 6,500 points)
Week 5: 1st place of 12 ($75 profit / 10,000 points)
Week 6: 11th place of 11 ($15 loss / 500 points)
Week 7: 2nd place of 13 ($50 profit / 8,000 points)
Week 8: 1st place of 12 ($85 profit / 10,000 points)
Total profit: $195
Total points: 44,500
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