Tuesday, July 18, 2006
6,066% ROI
So I decided to fire up pokerstars to play a few hands for the first time in awhile. I have some money on there and just felt like playing a tournament. The great thing about poker stars is there is always a tournament starting. So I saw a turbo $3 with rebuys satellite to their wsop super mega satellite on Saturday where the seats were $370 and there were 500+ people in it. So I was like cool there will be more then 10 seats and it won't cost me to just dick around. I had no intention of playing the wsop main event satellite as I am not 21 so I figured if I win it I will use the 370 bucs as my bankroll to try to get into some of the WCOOP tourneys coming up in a few months on pokerstars. For anyone that doesn't know what the WCOOP is: Click Here. My mission will to be to play at least two of the events and this blog will probably track that in the coming months, but back to the here and now.
So the tourney began and I really didn't care about it was I was watching TV, but still ended with about 4,000 in chips after the break. In pokerstars turbo satellitea you only start with only 1,000 chips and the blinds go up every 5 minutes which is like every 8 or so hands. Needless to say it is an insanely fast structure that requires 70% understanding math and the structure, 20% poker, and 10% your cards. In other words, its a complete crapshoot with alittle poker. In the middle to end stages you simply push when it folds around to you and you have some fold equity agaisnt the remaining stack sizes or you have a big hand. Everyone is playing so tight trying to make it to the seats fearlessness is the key in these things. In the end it all worked out as every time I got called I had the best hand. The key hand came when I had A8s in the cutoff, and the person before pushed for 40K with the blinds at 6K/12K and 50 or so people left and I 16 more chips then him. Well his range here is basically any two and I figured I will take my 60/40 here instead of getting hit by 20K+ in blinds and basically folding my way out of the tourney. It worked out as he had KJ and I hit and ace on the flop. From there I started bullying the table as the seats were getting really close and ended the tourney as one of the chip leaders with almost 250K (altough I know it doesn't matter how many chips I have as long as I make the top 16). I feel like I played the tourney perfectly from start to finish and my three big all-ins all held for me for once (thats running good to me atleast :-). It just shows me then when I have a little luck on my side I have a shot to win anything I put some effort into.
Here are some screenshot becuase I like screenshots and a funny story after.
This is a screenshot from the final two tables, and the funny story comes from the guy in the 2 seat named wilspeed. One away from the seats he is on the button with 30K somehow after just paying the 40K Big Blind and 20K Small Blind. There were at least 4 maybe more people who were going to be put all-in blind before he would be from the Big Blind. Well it folds around to him on the button with two guys about to be forced in blind the next hand and he calls all in. The SB calls and checks it down with the BB. Well the BB had a5 and the SB had a3 and an ace had hit on the turn. Well smart satellite player wilspeed had called all-in when he is 98% to get a seat by just folding the next few hands with 88 and was out bubble boy. Some people say that poker may be harder to make money at with so much information on how to get better out there already, but after seeing shit like this I say poker will always be profitable for semi-smart to smart players.
Other then that I have played a few live sessions, which I wrote about in my previous blog entry. Also, I played two more rounds of golf. The first one I think I lost over 10 balls as the course was hard and I was playing terrible. However, the second round was on a cheap public course that is only a par 60 with obviously a lot of short holes. I decided to play it with only my irons using my 3 for tee shots on the longer holes. Well I shot a 6 over 66 for probably the best round of golf of my life. I will post some pictures tomorrow but for now its 2:15am and Myia and I spent over 1:30 minutes writing these two blogs hope they were interesting.
