| 9 | 9-Sep | Tue | 14:30 | $215 | NL Hold'em [4-max] | $400,000 |
I played this event similtaneously with the 100r.
My starting table was very soft so for the first 3 levels I was able to really run it over.....something which I have not been able to say for a while on Stars.
Anyway i felt like I played really well in this one and I had a top 100 chip stack as we approached the bubble.
Then some suernitty 19 year old comments on how he is just trying to hold on for the money and this starts up a bit of friendly banter between all 4 of us. The nit says "come on you guys must have known what it was like at one point", me and multitummen2 agree with him and say we are only joking, Grunter321 seems incapable of being anything but an arogant twat and disagrees. Up to this point I felt like multitummen2 was a bit of a LAG and had caused me one or two problems when I had opened up UTG but eventually i did get him in one pot that i got him to bluff twice at. Grunter321 had played very very oddly I must say. Judging by his profile pic, which was a standard live pose with chips and cards of some tourney victory, (which did hit me as APPT or some EPT event because of the shirt which I assumed was a Pokerstars one) I gave him some credit. But some of the odd plays, including floating alot of flops OOP but never applying any pressure on later street apart from the time he spiked his horrible 6 outer and even then he was lost.
Anyway to get back to the story; I remarked on The Nits comments by saying that I had been able to sympathise with him recently when I played the 10k$ event as I was sort of concerned with making the money first before I even thought about the win because I was pretty tired and getting beat up everytime I opened up light due to my horrific table position. In this scenario I had made it an aim to chip up but also concentrate on making the money as it would be a great feat for me because it equals my biggest cash on Stars (which we know isn't amazing) and add to my growing confidence that has been building over the last 2 months that I have been playing highERstakes poker.
multitummen2 asks me when I mention the 10k event, which I know may sound like a brag (lol that I played not won a tourney) but which was said because I found it amusing that I had been in a simillar situation to this kid, and I told him that I had sattelited in on Sunday.
Anyway Grunter being the fucking cocksucker that he is starting quizzing me on WHY had I played it and that I was a losing player on stars (which I think I am by 700$, a buyin FFS, in MTTs but which I am quickly rectifying these past weeks).
And it was funny because since playing more in the daily 100r and other events, as well as steps and 3-6 to 25-50 cash games I have not heard any of the Bullshit chat from any players that I was so used to on Crypto in the shitty little multis.
So I ask him if I am actually a losing player still and he and his even twatier railbird are giving it all the chat, all the LOLing, and I have Matt railing me who is quick witted (he is a pro in this type of chat, even when we started 3 years ago) keeping my corner.
Anyway without boring you with the details there arose 2 significant finds after all this Bullshit.
1. I was playing a volitaile 4-max format and completely lost my game even though I was trying to tell myself not to. I busted out 20 mins later: firstly trying to crack this arseholes AK with Q9 when he 3-bet shove and I called with like 5k-8k pot odds and secondly having 77 v KK in which i limp-raised allin B V B so kind of a cold deck. However whilst I was getting trashed by this prick and his rail buddy it was obvious that the other 2 players were quite rightly taking advantage of this situation and stealing our blinds, where as I was alot more passive with theirs. I should have been focused to regain my chip advantage after making a questionable call with Q9 against a guy who was not going allin against me without a hand....but still probs mathematically close.
2. This Grunter321 has the kind of results that you would not be ashamed of as a poker player.
Firstly he won the Aussie Leg of the APPT in December last year for 750,000$ which is a great score. And secondly since then he has around 150,000k in online tourney winnings which is a pretty standard score for any good "online tourney pro", a score which I would like at the end of the WCOOPs or as soon as possible, but then again wouldn't we all LOL!
http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/grunter321
So this guy has had one brilliant tournament....something most of us just dream about and wonder when ours is going to come.
So the question is: since he has had a good score and can consider himself a pro, is he an arsehole to still be commenting about people losing players and being an arrogant bastard for thinking just because he won an event that he has earn't the right to do this?
I'd tell him one thing, and that is the reason he did not play the 10k$ event is because he is actually more -EV then I am. Its funny these fuckers who have one good score and thus the bankroll/sponsorship to have repeated chances are actually just average playing Aussie Meatheads who are so fucking cocky they will never have good banter with anyone cos they are so stuck up there own fucking arse and therefore detatched from everyone else.
I hope that when I win my triple crown this season I do not become like this.
Apoligies for that rambling, I may have to edit it at some point as, like most my posts, I am writing on my laptop at late hours with no spell check.
Anyway my 2nd cash from what should be seen as a positive WCOOP.
I did make a questionable play 40 out the money in 100r today when I tried isolationg tilting shortstack (JJ) via cold 4betting out the UTG opener with A8dd!
Just one of those things that in theory was ok but in reality I just knew knew knew I was a. getting called and b. by AK so annoying "radar swtched on but do it anyway things" that we all do.
I have started 4-tabling 3-6$ in an attempt to start taking poker as a proffesion more seriously. I have dusted off my 12-16k$ (varying, spun up roll!) on Full Tilt Poker and seeing as they won't let me deposit for some reason I will not be playing the crazy 25-50$ cash games anymore on there.
So my main aims are to grind from now on and continue to improve my MTT game via studying videos and also analysing my own hands.
I have also realised that the WSOPE event 1# is on September 19th so I will be "hopefully" missing the 500r and 1000PLO WCOOPs if not more. It just shows how much of a 100% online freak I have become. The thought of sitting through all those hands in a casino is putting me off. Also because I have played live poker about 10 times this year which should really be like 50-100 if I am to improve the "live" aspects of my game.
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