Not Going Well

So I have failed to cash in any of the MM events I have played so far, which blows. In almost every event I play I manage to build up a great stack and I mean 200-300bb's early on then either go completely card dead or hit a huge cooler vs another big stack. It is really frustrating because the field is just so damn soft. It is soooo easy to chip up it's not even funny and I have consistently proven that. Now I have done my fair share of sucking out and maybe it's just Karma lol. For example today I have 56dd and open in LP to 300 (blinds 50/100) and the BTN makes it 700. I flat and flop comes 56K rainbow. I c/r blah blah gii on the flop and hold vs his AK. Anyways the common occurrence is just hitting a cooler like set over set for tourney life or a weirdly played pot by a fish who rivers me for half stack, shit like that. I thought I had it under control today but the same thing happened over a few hands. I'll post some in the re-player tomorrow cuz it's kinda late. Playing the Main Event for sure and hope to smash that. I know I can do it because I have been consistent so far.

I also joined tiltbook.com which seems okish. Once more people join I think it can go far. Check it out sometime. GL at the tables!

Sunday Poker

I played the Sunday Storm and the Bigger $11 yesterday. I busted out of the storm as per usual, but I was running like god in the Bigger $11. I was also super focused and making lots of good reads. It also helped that I had AA 4 times and they held each time. Then this hand happened. I stayed around 150bb's the whole tourney which is impressive in itself. I think I played the hand well. Everything went the way I wanted it to, I read his hand correctly it just didn't work out.





So that hand sucked and I couldn't get anything going. The table broke and the first 2 hands were disastrous at the new table. Pretty standard obv, but it still sucked. Was hoping for a really deep run. Here's the hand analysis post from 2+2




Then the very next hand:




If I can have a run like that in one of the Micro-Millions that would be awesome, minus the bad beats of course :P

MicroMillions

So micro millions is starting up again on the 14th. I plan on playing a good number of them, right around $100 in buy-ins. I'm hoping that I can run good in a couple, that would be nice. Not cashing for so long has been taking a mental toll on me. I know I'm not the greatest player around but I also know I'm good enough to beat these soft fields. So here is the tentative lineup:

14th- $75k GTD Zoom - $5.50
         $25k GTD - $3.30
16th- $75k GTD Super KO - $11.00
         $15k GTD - $2.20
17th- $300k GTD Sunday Storm - $11.00
18th- $50k GTD - $5.50
19th- $30k GTD - $5.50
20th- $50k GTD - $8.80
21st- $30k GTD - $5.50
23rd- $50k GTD - $8.80
24th- $300k GTD Sunday Storm - $11.00
         $1M GTD Main Event - $22.00

So we'll see how they go, I hope well. Also me and my father are going to start playing live at the local legion. I just learned they run a tourney on friday's the attract about 40-60 players. I assume most will be of the older sort so I should have a good edge against this field. The structure is okish:

Buyin- $20
1R or 1A - $20
Stack- 4,000, RB or AO worth 4,000
Blinds 30mins for 1st hr then 15mins for the remainder. Blinds start at 25/50

We will be going starting next Friday. Anyways, see you on the tables!

WPT Montreal 2013

So I have a big goal for the end of this year. I plan on playing in the WPT Montreal Main Event. The info is as follows:

Nov.29-Dec.5, 2013.
Playground Poker Club
$3500+$350, Re-Entry
60 min blinds
30,000 Starting Stack
Blinds start at 50/100

I've been to Playground Poker before and it really is a great poker room. I'm really excited to play this event for a few reasons. One being, of course, that it's my first major live tournament. The other reason being that my dad also wants to come and play it as well. So some good company for the trip up there. Should be lots of fun.

I have a ton of work to do to prep for this event. Once I leave for the field season I will be focusing exclusively on my poker game. I would like to be able to pay for the buy-in from poker winnings from the summer rather than my own money. Now, I had a similar goal to this last year, which was to make $10k by the time the season was over. Instead I played World of Tanks and didn't stick to my plan. That is going to change this year. I am super motivated to be good enough to just win my way into the tourney. So that's that for now and we will see how it goes. I am trying to Sat into the 7th Anniversary Sunday Mill tomorrow. I hope I can at least Sat in that would be nice but they are expecting about 20k ppl in this sat with 1k seats GTD. I'll try to keep this blog updated this time and not just let it die off like I did last year.

February Review

So how did it go? Well I didn't stick to my BR management like I said I was going to. I played more tourneys than I should have and hit a bad streak of not cashing. There was some run bad but I was also calling down light in some spots which caused me to have to gamble in marginal situations. I had a few coolers but that's to be expected.


Cash:

Tourneys:

So time to reset again. It sucks playing with a small roll but I con't afford a bigger roll until later on. When I do get my roll I am definitely getting some coaching. So sick of losing all the time. I know I'm capable of being a consistent winning player, I just need help spotting my big leaks.