Thursday, January 10, 2008

Recap January 2008

1/1/08
2/90 ITM
The curse lives on.
I have had an long-standing goal of winning a 45 person MTT online. I have 12 second and thirds (one each just last week). Tonight I played a 90 person MTT and made it to heads up. I really thought I would start the new year off right. I run 66 into AA to get crippled (I always get unlucky heads up), but I battle back to nearly even. I bust when my trip 5s lose to J7o on the river(straight).

Busted out of 2 MTTs. Definitely need to stop multi-tabling.

1/2/08
2/9 ITM
4/9 bubble

1/7/08
2/18 ITM
60/180 TT ran into JJ & AQ, board KTJ, pokerstars is a joke.

1/8/08
9/18 ran 66 into AA

1/9/09
4/45 ITM down to 4 my son wakes up ill. as he races to the bathroom I shove 57o into 44 and flop x57 to double up. with my son in anguish, I prepare to walk away and the very next hand I shove AQo into 89o and OP flops x89 so I bust.

1/15/08
2/45 ITM of course the curse lives on. run JJ into QQ heads up and bust. of course OP gives me no action on my KK earlier. seems like i'm destined to finish 2nd at best.

1/16/08
6/45 ITM played more passively than I normally play. Had I called AI with A8o in one spot, I would have tripled up.

1/17/08
0-fer-5 suffered some horrible bad beats by some horrible players. glad to see things are back to normal. this is what they mean by variance i suppose. i was running good but then wham.

1/19/08
0-fer-5 again. i am really running cold into some massive hands and getting bad beats. one i recall down to 13/45 i run QQ into AT board xTxAx to bust.

1/21/08
3/45 ITM but busted 4 other tourneys. bad beats are back, one hurt badly. not playing great right now either. falling to wired overpairs when flop TPTK
(AJ flop 37J for example).

1/29/08 maybe multi-tabling isn't so bad after all.
1/18 ITM nice win here, battled back heads up from a 2:1 disadvantage and took it down.
11/180 ITM
in 6th place down to 50 but took a bad beat on the river to cripple me. But I take the lead briefly with this:


currently in 8/14th place. we'll see where i end up.

well i ran 99 into AQ and lost. on life support...

A8s beats QTo OP flops Q but I turn A.

KQs falls to 44 and I'm out in 11th.

1/31/08
I finish the month busting two tourneys on what seems to be bad beats. I'm soliciting advice to see if I bet each street right. Feel free to comment.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2029813
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2029816
but I take 1/18 ITM to end up for the night.

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