I Did Ok in My First BIG MTT

Well I haven't played a whole bunch of poker lately. I think I'm a bit tilted on the down swing I've been having. I knew it was going to come, and I figured it would come hard. My winrate was super high and I new I couldn't keep something like that going for to much longer. I've been playing in some of the free rolls lately. I've missed a couple of the CC freerolls but hopefully I'll start making the time for them.

I played in on of the "Hubble's NL" freerolls. There are like 9000 guys to start with and only 72 get advanced to the next round. I was doing really good. I made a couple right plays and the biggest thing that set me up; I picked up AA when three other people pushed in.



That set me up really good. It gave me great opportunites to steal some blinds and just push people around. I made it all the way down to like 256 people. I though I was golden. I knew that this was going to be the toughest part of the freeroll, but I thought I was playing pretty damn good. I look down and see two cowboys sitting there. I was like great! I just need to not see and ace on the flop and I'm set. Here's the hand history for that hand:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 0 Tournament, 600/1200 Blinds 100 Ante (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com



SB (t100272)

BB (t20885)

UTG (t5452)

UTG+1 (t34116)

MP1 (t48849)

MP2 (t103945)

Hero (MP3) (t105784)

CO (t13350)

Button (t32814)



Hero's M: 39.18



Preflop: Hero is MP3 with K, K

UTG calls t1200, 2 folds, MP2 calls t1200, Hero bets t5000, 2 folds, SB calls t4400, 1 fold, UTG raises to t5352 (All-In), MP2 calls t4152, Hero calls t352, SB calls t352



Flop: (t23508) 9, 3, Q (4 players, 1 all-in)

SB checks, MP2 bets t3600, Hero raises to t23000, 1 fold, MP2 calls t19400



Turn: (t69508) J (3 players, 1 all-in)

MP2 checks, Hero bets t77332 (All-In), MP2 calls t75493 (All-In)



River: (t220494) 4 (3 players, 3 all-in)



Total pot: t220494


Needless to say, I was extremely pissed. Part of it was my fault. The guy that pushed in with the AJo had to small of a stack to make a proper bet, so I couldn't reraise. If i would have noticed that (which I should have) I could have raised a little less so that some one could have reraised. If I could have shoved, the guy with Q9o wouldn't have called. Either way it is way passed my bedtime and I need to get some sleep tonight. Hopefully my luck will start to turn around a little bit and I can shake off some of these losses. Good luck at the tables.

More Good Luck With Technology

Well my fantastic luck with computers continues. After only a couple months of owning my new laptop, it decided to crap out. I need to take it in to gateway and see what they are going to do. I'm pretty sure I can salvage the hard drive, if nothing else. I hope so because I'm just about done with restarting my poker Databases.

Well any way, I started to play a bit of poker today and that did not go very well at all. I was expecting a bit of a downswing (I've been running at a winrate of about 35ptBB/100). I didn't think I could hold that winrate for too much longer. Well here is just an example of how I was running:

On the turn I was a 95% favorite to win this hand. As you can see, the river brought one of the two cards that he needed. I also ran into AK

I don't know if you noticed, but that is a Holdem Manager screen. While my other computer is down, I figured I'd go ahead and download the trial of HM. So far it's ok, It will take a bit of getting used to but I'll let you know how it was when my trial is up.