math
i'm feeling extremely sick, both literally (my throat is killing me) and figuratively (from the math), but if i don't write this now it's not gonna get written.
so thanks to everyone for comments on all my latest posts. i appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. i played the math tonight but with little sleep last night and another day of box reviewing ahead i figured it was a win/win if i got knocked out earlier or made it deep. however, i did not count on feeling so totally broken by the time it ended, and now i'm just wired enough to type this up before sleep. omg, i have to mention that buddydank radio is playing color me badd right now. i won tickets to see them and paula abdul from hot 97 when i was in 9th grade, and adina bricker and i totally rocked out. yeah, that's how cool i was. but i digress.
i doubled up early in math when someone limped w/ AT and i held AJ in either sb or bb. A flopped and despite overplaying my A rag it held up.
then it was kind of a crapshoot until i limped w/ AA (i always seem to get big pp utg) and got a raiser, who then played his bottom pair of 3s (w/ 43) like it was my hand.
i then got no cards. for a really long time. one QQ that everyone folded to. same w/ 88. two AJ, one of which i folded to a raise.
then i picked up AA in the bb and cardgrrl overplayed A3 (gutshot, i think on turn?) and i doubled up.
very next hand QQ and i get paid again.
and then card dead for a long while. picked up a few pots here and there w/ decent hands, but nothing premium. i did not get AK once the entire tournament! KK once, towards the end.
then everything turned to shit. i called a shortie raise to my bb w/ 76 and doubled him up w/ his A rag. along the way i doubled up kaja a couple times, one time w/ J8 (which was stupid on my part) and once w/ A8 sooooooted (on button). then i doubled up jamy when he raised w/ AQ and i thought my asian jew was good. um, it wasn't.
and then it got worse. i saw A9 on the button and tried to pick up the lone bb from julkeus. he called w/ A6 and river was a 6. throw up a little in mouth.
few hands later, TT in bb. jam by button. snailtrax has A3h. flop has two hearts, turn brick, river heart. puke.
i then had m of less than 2, and made what in hindsight was probably my final boneheaded play. i jammed utg+1 w/ K7o right into AT. i could have waited for something better utg, and at the very least defended my blind like a (wo)man and hoped to get lucky. patience may have paid off in this spot, but i'll never know. i was thinking, we're six handed, there's over 12k in each pot, and i have just over 20k, so maybe i can take one down right here. oh well. i did not hit miracle K and i'm out in 6th place after being chip leader for much of final table.
i know i made a few bad plays along the way, but i guess the consensus is correct, you have to have some luck and the ftp rng clearly had no interest in seeing me in toc. why would it really? thanks to the nice people who railed me at table and in girlie chat, i really appreciate it. also thanks to bayne for sending along screen shots to post cause i have no idea how to take them on my mac. i'm frustrated both for losing another good shot at the toc seat, and also for losing out on at the very least another place or two of cash, which would have gone a long way right now.
congrats to jamyhawk for taking it down.
so thanks to everyone for comments on all my latest posts. i appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. i played the math tonight but with little sleep last night and another day of box reviewing ahead i figured it was a win/win if i got knocked out earlier or made it deep. however, i did not count on feeling so totally broken by the time it ended, and now i'm just wired enough to type this up before sleep. omg, i have to mention that buddydank radio is playing color me badd right now. i won tickets to see them and paula abdul from hot 97 when i was in 9th grade, and adina bricker and i totally rocked out. yeah, that's how cool i was. but i digress.
i doubled up early in math when someone limped w/ AT and i held AJ in either sb or bb. A flopped and despite overplaying my A rag it held up.
then it was kind of a crapshoot until i limped w/ AA (i always seem to get big pp utg) and got a raiser, who then played his bottom pair of 3s (w/ 43) like it was my hand.
i then got no cards. for a really long time. one QQ that everyone folded to. same w/ 88. two AJ, one of which i folded to a raise.
then i picked up AA in the bb and cardgrrl overplayed A3 (gutshot, i think on turn?) and i doubled up.
very next hand QQ and i get paid again.
and then card dead for a long while. picked up a few pots here and there w/ decent hands, but nothing premium. i did not get AK once the entire tournament! KK once, towards the end.
then everything turned to shit. i called a shortie raise to my bb w/ 76 and doubled him up w/ his A rag. along the way i doubled up kaja a couple times, one time w/ J8 (which was stupid on my part) and once w/ A8 sooooooted (on button). then i doubled up jamy when he raised w/ AQ and i thought my asian jew was good. um, it wasn't.
and then it got worse. i saw A9 on the button and tried to pick up the lone bb from julkeus. he called w/ A6 and river was a 6. throw up a little in mouth.
few hands later, TT in bb. jam by button. snailtrax has A3h. flop has two hearts, turn brick, river heart. puke.
i then had m of less than 2, and made what in hindsight was probably my final boneheaded play. i jammed utg+1 w/ K7o right into AT. i could have waited for something better utg, and at the very least defended my blind like a (wo)man and hoped to get lucky. patience may have paid off in this spot, but i'll never know. i was thinking, we're six handed, there's over 12k in each pot, and i have just over 20k, so maybe i can take one down right here. oh well. i did not hit miracle K and i'm out in 6th place after being chip leader for much of final table.
i know i made a few bad plays along the way, but i guess the consensus is correct, you have to have some luck and the ftp rng clearly had no interest in seeing me in toc. why would it really? thanks to the nice people who railed me at table and in girlie chat, i really appreciate it. also thanks to bayne for sending along screen shots to post cause i have no idea how to take them on my mac. i'm frustrated both for losing another good shot at the toc seat, and also for losing out on at the very least another place or two of cash, which would have gone a long way right now.
congrats to jamyhawk for taking it down.
posted by lj at 12:09 AM
6 Comments:
I know it's probably frustrating, but a tournament like that, it's a total crapshoot and you just have to get lucky at the right times to have a shot at winning. That's why turbo tourneys are ghey.
Oh, and picking up QQ after AA is sick, especially at the final table, so thanks for that. :)
Great run last night LJ. I was sure you were going to take it down, Daisy. I was truly surprised when I check the results.
I think you were way too aggressive though. There were some jams that were unnecessary for sure. Espeically the one you raised me with J8o. I am in the BB and have scraps, of course I have to call with ATC there. And my ATC was QJo.
You're going to win one, I can feel it.
Great game and thanks for gging me when I went out. I've been in a complete funk lately, most of it nonpoker related and didn't chat at all last night.
You played...your beats reminded me of my 2nd place in the big game...you feel like you are on the way to a win and then BAM!
Keep it up...you are playing well...
Gross to watch at the end, but very well done!
Thanks for the shoutout, and Congrats to you. Great run for someone who is so down on themselves. I really thought you were going to take it when we hit the final table.
Keep final tabling and you will be in the TOC. I'll see you there.
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