Friday, August 13, 2010

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.

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