30 November 2009

What goes up, goes down, then back up (and then probably back down)

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday.  Variance is a fact of life in MTT play.  I don't like to stay down too long, and I will do things to mix up my mindset so that I can help turn things around.  For example, I had a couple of days running horribly, so I started playing some ring games to refocus - HU NL and PLO.  It really helped.  Had the following notable results:

-  Final tabled - 9th out of 162 in the PCA Freeroll Fantasy $1 Satellite on PokerStars to earn a seat to the PCA Freeroll Fantasy main event.
-  Final tabled - 4th out of 149 in $1NL MTT at Bodog.
-  Really mini-cashed in $.10NL MTT at PokerStars - 672 out of 3740

    -  Final tabled the UB CEREUS Twitter Freeroll - placed 8th out of 281.  Brutal beat at the end which would have made me chip leader:

    Table: 26 (Real Money) Seat #5 is the dealer
    Seat 5 - THEHIREDGUN (7,258 in chips)
    Seat 6 - GETS2U75 (64,989 in chips)
    Seat 7 - TYCOU (58,950 in chips)
    Seat 8 - SUITED59 (47,772 in chips)
    Seat 9 - GIJOEVALD111 (37,162 in chips)
    Seat 2 - ATLIEN09 (44,887 in chips)
    Seat 3 - PINGPONGSHOW (72,708 in chips)
    Seat 4 - DISSIDENT11 (61,139 in chips)
    ATLIEN09 - Ante 300
    PINGPONGSHOW - Ante 300
    DISSIDENT11 - Ante 300
    THEHIREDGUN - Ante 300
    GETS2U75 - Ante 300
    TYCOU - Ante 300
    SUITED59 - Ante 300
    GIJOEVALD111 - Ante 300
    GETS2U75 - Posts small blind 1,500
    TYCOU - Posts big blind 3,000
    *** POCKET CARDS ***
    Dealt to TYCOU [7c Ac]
    SUITED59 - Folds
    GIJOEVALD111 - Folds
    ATLIEN09 - Folds
    PINGPONGSHOW - Folds
    DISSIDENT11 - Folds(Blind disconnect)
    THEHIREDGUN - Folds
    GETS2U75 - Raises 7,500 to 9,000
    TYCOU - Calls 6,000
    *** FLOP *** [7s Kc 2c]
    GETS2U75 - Checks
    TYCOU - Bets 14,500
    GETS2U75 - Calls 14,500
    *** TURN *** [7s Kc 2c] [3c]
    GETS2U75 - Bets 18,000
    TYCOU - Calls 18,000
    *** RIVER *** [7s Kc 2c 3c] [Kh]
    GETS2U75 - All-In 23,189
    TYCOU - All-In 17,150
    GETS2U75 - returned (6,039) : not called
    *** SHOW DOWN ***
    GETS2U75 - Shows [2h 2d] (Full house, twos full of kings)
    TYCOU - Mucks
    GETS2U75 Collects 119,700 from main pot

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