Won 30r - still grinding sngs

So the 30r was interesting today...it was the 10k gtd on saturdays - during rebuy period I had busted my stack and was going to call it a day, but since I had the auto rebuy checked I already got 1500 in chips back so figured id rebuy again and get back on track......funny how many times I was close to giving up good things happened....anyways I had chipped up to roughly 10-11k when I flopped a set of 6s in a 3 handed pot on a board of J65 rainbow - went check check guy fired out, I called, other guy calls and turn brought a 5......I believe at this point I checked 2nd guy fired out 3rd called, I just flatted again...river came a J which obviously killed everything....at this point I was pretty screwed in the hand - I checked, 2nd guy fired around pot for like 10k, 3rd guy goes all in, I fold - 2nd guy shows a bluff, other guy showing AJ.....funny thing is if I push the flop or turn I m probably going busto.....not really a tough fold on the river there just a shitty situation....after that I ended up cracking KK with A4 after shoving like 17 bbs from button....Later on I believe I won 2 coinflips with about 5 left....3 or 4 handed I pick up QQ to RSaleh's 7s which brought me to about 180k going into HU, while the other guy had 400k.....HU was quite interesting - he was making large raises/reraises pre and postflop.....I remember a couple hands at 1200/2400 I raise to 5400 preflop, he pops it straight to 200k - interesting to say the least...anyways I ended up picking up 7s raising pre - he repopped it to something ridiculous like 60 bbs more so I got it in - he had 57o off and I held....he definitely handed me the 1st so ill take some free handouts....

sngs went so so - broke even but I was fine with that.....my goal was to just play my game and let the money go where it may......Im looking forward to the end of the race so I can relax a little and plan some vacation time....

biggest day in online poker thus far

so first of all if you play mtts dont read this, as the number will be laughable, but ended up making 6900 from playing/bonus money today.........Ive had bigger weeks then this but a single day previous record was like 5500, so I was happy........roughly 4500 of it came from SNGs, with the rest coming from a 3rd or 4th place in 20k ( I forget).....the only issue I had was my donking out of the 20k......seems like when Im shorthanded I tend to overshove bvb type situations, which leads to my busting when its not necessary...I had something like 50-60 bbs in the BB vs an sb who opened to 6 bbs - I had 88 and reraised to like 70k commiting me.....the problem with this whole situation is I basically turned my hand into a bluff - 22-77 prob fold out, alot of weaker aces fold - the worst part was this guy was semi tight and hadnt shown anything crazy he would have to give alot of credit to my reraise.....anyways he shoved, i called, he had aces.....I think the best line would be to flat here - granted the flop was 10-8-2 so I might be going broke anyways, but the ridiculous reshove was terrible by me....wish I would think twice before getting 60 bbs in preflop....outside of that hand though I thought I played well - made a couple 3 bet bluffs here and there, some value bet bluffs, etc......Im definitely making a point to not make retard shoves anymore in MTTs - I tend to not think enough when I have alot of SNGs going as well, so these plays are definitely costing me some money.....

as for the rake race, things are going well.....I believe im in 8th right now and have been turning up the heat this month.....50 hours a week for the rest of this race is my goal, so hopefully I can move up to 5th or 6th and pocket around 16k.....gl me

Running like God

For the past month or so I've been on a godlike run mainly in SNGs.....it wasn't so much the start of race cards but the past 2 weeks I've really been tearing it up....Last month I made around 20k with about 7k in bonuses, so 13k in actual play, and this month I gotta be up another 6k or so in playing/reloads....I guess this was due after my year of running bad in SNGs thus far - I think this run is equivelant or better than my run in July when I also ran like god...Ill get exact figures once the race ends as I dont feel like calculating total profits right now....As for race cards Im behind pace in terms of where I thought I would be.....I figured by now I'd be top 6 or top 7 at the very least, but Im stuck in 9th. My goal for the rest of the cards is to do 50+ hour weeks and get atleast top 5 (16k).........Id still be happy with my +40k off this whole race, but considering how good ive ran Im sure it will be more than that. On the staking front, my stakee has been doing real well - he took 2nd in the 20k gtd last week for 3200, and a couple cashes here and there......I played the 535 FTOPs shootout tonight but busted after losing two races....I don't know why SNG players think these shootouts are extremely +ev to them - granted the first table is pretty much like a SNG and theres not too much postflop play, but the 2nd table is pretty deepstacked and theres alot of good postflop players in these things...I remember the last FTOPs shootout I did was a 6 max - I won my first table and came to my 2nd table with 40-50 bbs and a ton of aggressive players....So really a high stakes sucessful MTT player would be much more +ev than any SNG player IMO in these things....Granted you could nit it up but I chose to 4 bet AQ for 35 bbs into AK :(.... oh well....

Anyways Im off to play video games.....I dont know if Ill post till the end of race cards as Im going to wait till then update the exact money figures....stay tuned