The awesome poker run I experienced last week continued slightly into this week. Yesterday I was thinking of driving to Kansas Star Casino to play in their 120.00 Sunday tournament. I had helped load my Sister and Brother In Law's U-Haul on Saturday and helped them move a deep freeze from the basement Sunday morning. I also helped my son mow a neighbor's yard on Saturday.
My back was hurting again for the third weekend in a row, so I decided to stay home and take it easy. I didn't think I could sit in a poker chair for hours.
Instead I decided to take some shots at some online tournaments. My first tournament was a 11.00 Satellite to the Sunday 215.00 game. I made it fairly deep and had an average stack with 20 players left to go out to reach the tickets. The blinds were increasing rapidly and I needed 1 more win to get my ticket. I was dealt AA in the big blind and had 1 person go all in for half my stack. I called and he drew out a flush on me. The very next hand I was dealt AJd and went all in when nobody played before me. The big blind had 10 10 and called. I went out short of getting a ticket.
I loaded up the 2.20 Sunday game to play until the other Sunday tournaments took off. I was running well in it with a top 5 stack by the time the other tournaments took off. I also got in the 11.00 Sunday game, another 11.00 game, the 33.00 Sunday game and another 33.00 game.
I couldn't get anything going in the Sunday 11.00 game or the other 33.00 game. I did continue to improve in the 2.20 game and the 33.00 Sunday games. I went out in the 11.00 Sunday game before the 3 hour re buy period was over so I bought back in. I went right back out and did not buy in again.
I was down to 4 tables. I was top 10 in the 2.20 and 33.00 games and was just starting to make a move in the other 2 games when I lost both of them with pocket 10's to Ax almost simultaneously.
As I got down to 2 tables left the play on both got really aggressive and I folded hands that I probably shouldn't have. I would raise with AK, JJ, etc. and get pushed all in. I was still winning a smaller pot here and there to maintain my stack but it was not growing. I would raise with AA and everybody would fold. No re-raise when I have AA? Soon I was looking at 400,000 and 600,000 chip stacks compared to my 80,000 chip stack going into the final 3 tables. With the blinds as high as they were a couple of double ups and I would be in contention for a final table.
In the 33.00 game I made a move with QQ and was instantly called by the big stack on the button with 82o. He caught 2 2 for the takeout. Ouch! Pay was almost triple my buy in so it was not too upsetting. Would have loved to take it down for 3500.00. A final table run would have been pretty exciting.
In the 2.20 game I was losing chips fast to the blinds and pushed all in with K 10 on a 10 high flop. The other player that called me had 10 10. Oops! We were about even on chips so I knew when he called I was probably beat.
I then played quite a few 5.50 super turbo SNG's with mediocre to no success. It was not my night for those as I kept losing flips, and getting outdrawn. I played a .25 .50 NL game heads up against a player for 50.00 that thought he was all that. I showed him 2 bluffs and he was dead set on getting me. I finally took him for the entire 50 when my 67o flopped a 8 9 10 rainbow. I bet, he raised and I re-popped him all in. He called in disgust when his pair of 10's were no good. He did not want to reload another 50.00. I'm not sure where he lives but I thought I heard him screaming and crushing his keyboard. I love heads up play. You really get to know the other player's style and tendencies.
As the smoke cleared that evening I pulled up the cashier to see what the damages were. I was up 25.00 for the day. I have not played stakes like that in quite a while. My online roll is way short of funds to do that every day. It was a fun change of pace. As little as I get to play a whole day like this, I might as well take a shot when I do get the chance.
If I would have busted all of my tournaments I would have only been out the 120.00 that I would have risked at the casino. The casino tournament would have been fun as well. They cap it at 70 players, but have good starting chip counts and blind levels.
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