Largest online win ever!!
I decided to try and parlay my cash in the 17.5k and registered for the 40k guarantee on bodog. I couldnt resist the overlay. There were ~258 players with a buyin of $100+9 which left a $14.2k overlay.
I was feeling really confident in my game since the cash the day before. I decided that once we got ITM I was not going to participate in any coin flips, and make moves when I had the oppurtunity.
I think the tourney payed 27 places once ITM the bottom tier was ~$200. It seemed like as soon as we hit the $ the shortstacks were ready to gamble, and pushing all-in with some crap cards. I avoided all that nonsense. I think the second tier started at 18 players paying out ~$400. I woke up a couple times with good cards and before I knew it I was the chip leader. Not much later we were to the final table. I was no longer the chip leader and had the chip leader to my immediate left.
As soon as we were at the final table I was dealt KK on the button. The blinds + antes were ~8k, so I opened pot when it was folded around to me for $18k. The chip leader asked me if I was going to make a habit of that. He and the bb folded. Another player whom I had put abeat on earlier chimed in and said I had been doing it regularly. I thought it was funny b/c I only stole blinds a few times. however I had only show my monster hands 2 times entire tournament when opponent folded. One time was agiant this player when I had AA, I was trying to show him that I wasnt targetting his blinds, and the other time was deep in a hand where I had the nut fullhouse and my opponent laid it down, I think he had a a big hand and made a good lay down. anyway to continue at the FT.
my final hand:
The blinds were high I had ~50k in chips and was dealt TT UTG+1, pot was ~15k with blinds and antes. We were six handed. Big stacks were ~160-190k there was one short stack ~30k, and bb had ~90k. I pushed PF big stack called AQo, caught Q on turn... gg me
I could have held out and waited for someone else to bust and picked up a little more $, but I was playing to win and would make same move again. I was extremly happy with my play overall.
I cashed out for $1800!!!!!!!!!!! hella fucking sweet for me.
It really helped me boost my bankroll. I cashed out $750 to appease my wife. Basically we are using $550 toward a car payment, and I told her to go shopping adn buy herself or whomever what ever she wanted with it. I think this will make her a little more accepting of my poker playing. Whenever I have played home games and won, I always give her my winnings. The payouts in those is never anything enourmaous (usually $100-$300) and she is usually more than willing to allow me to go out.
Anyway so as it stood now my bankroll on bodog was $1900 and some change. I only wanted to withdrawl $1k and leave the rest in there. Bodog sent me an email stating that if I withdrew that the would keep my original deposit bonus of $100. I thought that was kinda crappy. I decided to try and clear the bonus playing soem .5/1 NL. I was doing fairly well, staying even :-p then this supperaggressive donkey got into a pot with me. He raised in late poisition, I was bb and had AKo. I reraised his bet 3x. I think at this point my bet was ~$15. I flopped 2pair, but the were spades. I bet out the pot he called. Turn was a blank. At this point the pot had ~$90 in it so I pushed the rest of my stack ~$130 and the idiot called, he had 5s7s and caught a s on the river..... So I lost $200 playing NL, I also lost ~$300 when I sat down at a 20/40 limit game. I thought man if i can hit one good hand It will be gravy. I didnt have any reads on anyone of course and had a LP calling station suck out on me 2 times in a row. After 2 rotations I left that game. I didnt want to risk it.
I had a friend transfer me $300 on fulltilt while I was waiting for my withdrawal to clear. The guy was only an aquinatance on pokerfox really, but I had talked to him several times over IM, and felt that he would trust me. He did and I greatly appreciated it. So I played some on FT while I was waiting on my $ to show.
On FT I had a bad session at 2/4 6 max limit. I was down ~20bb when I had to go to bed on thursday night. I played some on friday and had more of the same luck. I went back down to .25/.5 and won ~$20 hardly a dent in what I had lost but somewhat of a confidence booster. I also tried my hand at a couple STT & MTT satellites on FT. Nothing ever happened for me on those and I decided to backoff.
My withdrawl cleared and after withdrawling the $750 and my losses it left me with $500. I owed my friend $300, so that left me with $200. I decided to transfer that to stars. I want to try my luck at satelliteing into the $500k soon. I wont be able to play this week b/c the Colts are playing their first playoff game against Pittsburgh, and we are having friends and family over to watch the game.
So yesterday I registered for the $3r sat. to $500k. I ended up paying 7 buyins including addon at end of first hour. After rebuy period I had $6k in chips and kne wthat was plenty to work with. I ended up waiting for good times to make moves and doubled up 3 tiems within an hour. I was in the top 3 for chips counts.
Adrienne was getting mouthy with me while I was playing and kinda started to mess up my game. So much for my theory of appeasing her by paying her off.... I ended up losing a couple consequtive hands an was down to about 28th. We still had 100 people left and only top 26 got seats. I ended up not making it and busted out in 85th. Dissapointing but if I played much longer I might have been beat wit ha broomstick by the wife.
Adreinne wasnt feeling well so I ran to the grocery to get some things for dinner, I made us dinner and afterwards checked to see if stars was running anymore sats. I noticed a $39+3 limit sat to a $215 event. One entry for every 6 players. I wasnt sure that I wanted to try that since limit tourneys tend to be crap shots as the blinds encrease at the end. Once the tourney started they allowed late seating and there were 48 players, I decided since almost he enitre FT got seats I would give it a shot. I didnt play any hands first 2 rotations and decided to just watch the play. It was unreal how terrible these guys were, one guy jamemd the pot for EP with A8o. un-fucking-real... It was obvious these people watched too much tv. There was only one player there who seemed like a solid player.
I caught KK in LP and double my stack. Later I was dealt JJ in LP and the jaming began when the board showed rainbow 10 high. On the turn I caught a J and it was 4 bet around agian with 4 players. the river was a 7. It was checked, bet, raised, and I reraised. The first player called, the second reraised. I thought surely this guy doesnt have 89, the only hand that could beat me. and called. I dont know what first player had, second had J7, and next player had TT. I took down a 6-7k pot and was pretty confident that I would make the prize pool.
I did alot of coasting after that and we were down to ~13 players. I got involved in a pot when I had AKs, and missed it by the turn I let it go. I was down to ~4k in chips, about 8th place. We had 13 players left with 9 getting seats, one getting $9. I was beginnign to get concerned I wasnt going to make any risky plays and just waited and hoped for a good hand. Blind were high ~800 and antes were 75. Before I knew it i was on bubble.
I saw the third place person go down like a comet. I couldnt believe he ws getting involved in hands with his marginal holding. Before long we were at the bubble. I was in 9th place but not by much. The CL had been stealing all my blinds and I decided to make a stand with AQ and reraised him. He called. to me this meant that he did not have apremium hand. the flop came A rag rag rainbow. He bet into me , I called. turn was a blank. He bet into me, I called. River was a Queen, he bet into me I called. he showed 58s. I won pot and almost immediately the other short stack had busted and I made it into sat.
I unregistered and took the T$. I plan on using them to play the $500k soon. I might try to sat in again and give myself a few more tourney credits. I have had luck satilliting in before but never had the confidence in my game to play. I dont thin kthat is goig to be a problem this time and am looking foward to giving it 100%.
I am going to reevalute my goals, and how I want to reach my 25k target by the end of the year. MTT's can definetly be more profitable than grinding out low limit games. But I am not sure what is the best thing for me to do. I will definetly continue to play limit games, but maybe focus on playing some big tourneys too. I want to take a casino trip and I will definetly be playing limit at a casino unless I hit some kind of crazy monster tourney win.
We'll see but until then this is where me bankroll stands: cash - $169, T$-$215, I am also still waiting on some rakeback. So even though I took a monster (for me) MTT win I am only slightly ahead of where I was last week. I am not going to consider the $750 a part of my goal to withdrawl $4k either, b/c that is intended on being used for a family vacation.
Bankroll = $384
