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Santino67:
Played my usual $22 game at 11.15 last night after having a night off on Wednesday and things seem to be going a similar way. Didn"t pick up much in early levels and table waqs extremely aggro so didn"t get involved much till i got soem info from the hands that were being flipped over. With blinds at 40/80 and not much more than my starting stack of 1500 I run into one of the aggros when he raised in EP and called my re-raise when I had :as: js on the button.
This guy"s range is pretty wide, I"ve watched him for about 40 mins now play similar ways with A6, Q10, KJ etc so think I"m ahead. Flop comes 2/2/3 rainbow and he insta shoves for the rest of my stack, putting all my info together I still think I"m ahead so call. He flips A8 and all"s good till the 8 hits on river FML. Can"t even buy a split pot just now and out another tourney after making the right play.
Had been chatting a short while before to Debbie Kimm and realised I"ve missed the cash games from Betfair (pre merge), so decided to play a wee cash game to get rid of the cobwebs and played a single 15c/30c game. Glad to say this went better and I ended after 2 hours with over treble my starting stack and cashed out $92. May focus on this for a while as it used to be a regular part of my game and I particularly enjoy the social side of it, having some good chat with opposition and not moving table every 15 minutes. In last night"s game I came across MLudlow who suggested he had notes on me, claiming a took him down a number of times with "Mad Hands" :D. I obviously disagreed with him, only to pick up 3/5 very next hand and raise in cut off with 2 callers behind. Hit a 5 on flop, check check, bet and got 1 caller. Blank on turn checked to me again, bet 2/3 pot get a call again. 3 on river and same story check, bet, call. Took down a nice wee pot and got the "I told you so" speech from Mr Ludlow ;D
Maybe I"m taking MTT games too seriously and focus more on preserving my stack, there"s never that fear of being donked out in cash games as my bankroll takes that away. Maybe I"m just riding a wave of tournament suck outs and bad luck that"s making me feel negative at the moment. One things for sure, when I get outdrawn in a cash game and lose a fairly big pot I don"t get upset, i just re-load. When it happens in MTTs it often leads to being busted out the tourney and leaves a sour taste.
Anyone any thoughts on this?
Santino67:
Well changed my mind again and decided to play the regular $22 11.15pm game again. 154 runners tonight and I"m running good, at 3rd break sitting chip leader at FT with 66k :). Updates to follow
Update is pretty ugly :D. First level after break saw 2 shorties busted, then at 800/1600 it all went severely pear shaped. Next shortie on list shoved 5BBs into my my BB with AJ, I call with A9 and no help. Same player very next hand does same with A9 and I re-shove on SB with JJ, he hit 99 on flop! 2 hands later I ran 10/10 into KK, get flopped an open end but no more help and lights out for me with $98 in 8th place after all that hard work :"(
promising night that ended up very disappointing, sigh.
Quasar:
unlucky Grant. Better luck tonight.
Going to practice some of the things we chatted about. See if it can improve my game. Can"t make it any worse ;D
Santino67:
Great performance Debs, very well done. Hope it lifts the confidence again, just what you needed I reckon :)
Quasar:
--- Quote from: Santino67 on March 14, 2011, 01:11:27 AM ---
Great performance Debs, very well done. Hope it lifts the confidence again, just what you needed I reckon :)
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Thanks Grant, for the tips and the railing. What a brilliant night lol ;D
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