Strange weekend…

Didn’t get to play any long stretches of poker except for Saturday morning, when I played the $24 tourney at 5am eastern, and I busted out with AA vs. QQ AIPF in the middle of the pack. Played a few Sats with no luck, and a few SNGs and was about even.

For some reason, I found myself played heads-up SNGs, played a few $2s to get my feet wet, and then played the $6 turbo heads up games for a while. I found one opponent at the $6 level that just wanted to push all-in every hand. Once I figured this out (about 3 hands into our first SNG) my calling range became a lot wider. He literally was pushing every hand. I ended up taking 5 of 7 SNGs, funny enough, the 2 that I lost were the best hands I called with, when my KK < his AT, and my JJ < K8. The 5 that I won I called with AT, KJ, KT, QJ and 44 and won all of those to essentially cripple him every time, and then finish him off a couple of hands later.

The bad thing about this is that my wife wanted to watch a movie on TV, and I started playing these, and 5 minutes later, she was calling me into the living room to watch a movie. This guy and I played 7 SNGs in less than 5 minutes, as they were usually over in 3-4 hands, 3 of them on the first hand. I should have kept playing this guy as long as possible, but alas, I could not.

After blowing $100 on MTTs last week, after my rakeback payment, I sit with a $495 bankroll. Not great, but all right. Gotta get a big score in to keep going.

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Anyone watch the final table of the $2500 2-day event on FT? Amazing stuff. I watched the last FTOPS $2500 final table a few months ago and thought it was one of the best final tables I have ever watched. This one wasn’t as good, but was still pretty awesome. The most amazing hand I remember was the 2 chipleaders going at it, SB vs. BB. BB was the chipleader with 1,500,000 in chips, SB had about 1,050,000. Folds to them, SB raises to 50k, blinds are 10k/20k, BB raises to 150k, SB calls. Flop is JT9, 2 spades, SB bets 200k, BB raises to 500k, they get it all in, SB has a set of 9s, BB has the nut flush draw. SB hits a boat on the turn, and the hand is over. Biggest of the tournament to that point for sure.

2 hands later, the once chipleader gets it in with AK vs. 66 and hits a K on the river to survive and cripple of the other guy. With a 350k difference in payout when they were 5-handed to the winner, the balls it takes to play like that, I thought it was incredible. I would be $hitting my pants for sure.

Either way, good luck at the tables everyone, will blog later on in the week.

Ryan