UBOC Chop/30r win

Wed/Thurs of this past week marked some interesting events.....first off on Wednesday I shipped the 20r AP - yeh yeh, its not that much of a cash but shipping it completed the shippage of every AP daily I play during the day......so that includes the 50 FO at 3 est, 30r, 501r1a,50r,20r,20k,30k,30r, and the turbo 75.......not a huge deal but thought it would be cool to one day ship every tournament that I play in my daily schedule......Thurs was a pretty sick day - I started off things with winning the 30r FTP for 6600 - this was the first time I won it so glad to get that monkey off my back....ran like a god short handed - HU I hit everything, ran good, and just destroyed him HU - felt too easy........then the UBOC 320 came up - I never really cared to play these bigger events as the fields are larger and I havent had any success.....also it was getting late and I had very little motivation but decided to reg the 320 UBOC and the 66 deepstack on AP along with the 162 FTP at 8est and call it a night......the UBOC overall was very soft for a 320 - when we got to the final 100 or so players, everyone was pretty passive - little to no 3 betting, the 3 bets I made worked, and postflop play was passive..........when we got ITM at 45 players, I lost a flip, but then had QQ beat KK and continued chipping up.....then I got a double with two tables to go, AA over TT I believe.....I came into the final table with like 25 bbs so I didnt have a ton of hope and had to play pretty tight as I was carddead and 25 bbs isn't much room to manevuer.....I tossed in a nice 3 bet that worked and picked up KK and doubled up with it......6 handed I had the CL or near the CL and began raising a bunch of pots - the players seemed very passive and it definitely seems the money was affecting them.....eventually they started opening up and then I lost A9 to KQ and was short 5 handed......from there I got lucky as 5th and 4th busted bringing us 3 handed.....I had 10 bbs at this point but then doubled up and we decided to talk chopping #s.......3rd was 15,500 and 2nd was 22k - chip counts gave me 17 something but told them I needed another 1k - I ended up getting 18,866 and we played it out for 3k and the UBOC watch.....I busted 3rd the 2nd hand in and that was the end of it. Overall was real happy with how the day turned out and the UBOC wasnt expected whatsoever......its great too cause it gives me the confidence to go deep in the bigger majors and hopefully get a win under my belt.....looking forward to the WCOOP and hopefully a deep run

Strategy post - have a plan

Was talking to someone the other day and this came about.....when you're playing poker, especially tournament poker, always have a plan for a hand.....I use to make this mistake myself about a year ago where I'd make a play either betting or checking and end up in an awkward situation where I have no clue what to do. People need to think one step ahead and understand all possible outcomes before making their move......the great thing about this is it also makes your decisions alot easier in certain situations - alot of times I'll get to the river and decide to bet/fold - if I get raised its a no brainer fold, and if he calls Im getting some nice value.....you see alot of newer players not setup a plan for the hand and get lost postflop - understand all the variables that are presented and come to a conclusion. Also if you're plan isnt going exactly as you wanted, stick with it. Sometimes Ill plan on 3b/calling someone and their 4 bet sizing will be very scary for example - regardless once I 3b I must stick to my plan - their odd 4 bet sizing could be pretty balanced between monsters and trying to look scary with 99, so I have to go with the plan of action. I think if you always have an intelligent plan of attack, you will always do much better.

Theres my tidbit of info for today now on to the grind :)

continuing to crush stars

The past 3 weeks have been real sick - I hit my biggest score ever and popped off a couple more 5 figure scores.....anyways last Monday I ended up chopping the 129 KO on tilt for 9400, and the following day on my bday winning the 162 Stars 65k guarenteed for 14,300.........also on those days I won the 501r1a on AP back to back which was the first time I won a tournament back to back like that.......this past week I followed things up with chopping the 50r on Stars for 11.4k 3 handed......The sickest part of that was at one point 3 handed I had 2.2 mil in chips, and the other two guys had 500k combined....I then went on to lose 6 all ins, and before you knew it I had 700k, the CL had 1.1 mil, and the shorty had 300k, and blinds were something absurd like 20/40k.......I pushed for the deal as these players werent good but it had turned into a luckfest and the difference between 3rd and 1st was 6k.....I ended up getting slightly more than 2nd place which is fair and it worked out as I busted in 3rd.......

I also had a win in the 75 dollar 10k turbo on AP the night before for 3300....Its a very soft tournament that is basically a luckfest towards the end - I had gotten down to 3 bbs with like 40-50 left and jammed AA and everyone folded.......at this point I figured I had no chance but I just kept winning showdowns and before you knew it made it to the ft.......the table was ridiculously soft - no one had a clue how to play......it was nice getting a win in a turbo tournament - I dont play too many of them so it was cool to do that for once

alot of big online tournament series are going on now and I know people are pysched up for them but I could careless.......i dont see why people fall in love with these big field big buy ins - majority of poker players see the payouts rather than thinking about their ROI and think oh man I got a shot at winning 100k! meanwhile in the long run these are the players who dont make as much as the consistent grinders......Im not knocking these tournaments - Im sure my ROI is atleast 150% in an FTOPs over a standard tournament, but the extreme variance of these fields makes it less appealing.....Im glad I dont play Sundays as well - it could take years to ever even out with variance and Ill pass on playing with that.......if people took more interest in playing the more profitable least variance games then everyone would be making alot more money.