Thursday, June 19, 2008

Starting Over in Micro-land

Well I had about 5$ in my BR when I signed up for the 45 person 1.20$ SNG. I played this mainly because 2nl is almost a crap shoot and my cash game play is bad enough I doubt I'd get anywhere in that sea of fish. Anyways I played this the same way I play a 5$-20$ 45 person SNG, aggressively! I really was fortunate to be catching cards also.

Although I almost learned a costly lesson when I made a play/bluff that usually at higher limits players would respect and fold, but not this micro playing pro lol. I had position on the guy and the pot was raised preflop he raised and I called with 9 10 suited. Flop came and he checked so I pushed to take a nice pot since blinds were high, and then he thought about it and took time. Well I put him on AK before I pushed and that's what made me make the play since I know that AK wouldn't call on a nothing flop.....well he did but it was AQ and I need to hit a 10 or a 9 or a inside straight draw, but I hit the 9 on the river and from there I was in 1st place and grew from there. I took about 60% of the final table and when it came down to HU I had about 43K to his 20K.

At this point I knew for sure I was going to win.......actually I was this sure at the start of the final table....wait actually before the sng even started lol! But I ended up making a sick call with bottom pair against his high cards and I ended up winning 14$ for my efforts and a huge boost to my very low BR!

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So now I had 17$ in my BR and my good friend Icemonkey9 logs onto aim and we discuss possibly playing a 3$ 18 man SNG. So we get in one and away we go. OF course we both make it ITM which the top 4 get paid, and I really wasn't surprised we made it because, well first of all we are from CC and 2nd of all Icemonkey is also a solid player cash or mtt wise. Well I was 2nd in chips when it came down to the last 4 but I ended up making a raise in the SB to steal and got called. I hit bottom pair and the inside straight draw so i pushed and was called by 2 pair instantly, no help and I was out in 4th.

icemonkey9 3:03
what the hell did you just do

kingcurtis 3:03
one of the stupidest things ever

icemonkey9 3:04
agreed

kingcurtis 3:04
i could say i thought he was bluffing but thats not good enough

So after that Ice monkey took care of the 3rd place guy and was in 1st but only by about 3K. Then he was all in PF with A 6 against AJ if I am correct, they both hit A but no 6 to save Ice. So he struggled to stay alive and eventually went out in 2nd for about 16$ but still a really nice finish and I am proud we both cashed! So now I am going to do what I used to do for a while and post my BR and a new feature which is a goal for the week or next couple days!

Current BR: $19.00
BR Goal for 6/21/08: $25.00

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah last night's SNG was a lot of fun. You're exit was beyond a brain shortage. Stacking vs someone with bottom pair. Yeah my A hand sucked, I did my best through and was satisfied with the 2nd place result. We'll kill it next time.

dakota-xx said...

Good job on the first place win. Now you have today left to get to $25. Good luck with it! You should try that Carbon freeroll next week. The field is not huge and I like the payout structure.

SavagePenguin said...

Good job. Manage your roll wisely and you can build it up to something significant.

You gonna hit the $5.50 $100 added on Sunday, or are you going to stick to proper management and built it up from lower stakes games?

Regd87 said...

hey, looks like youre still going pretty strong. If your interested, I've started up my blog again, check it out, and if you ever decide to play on titan, let me know :) lots of fish.

Anonymous said...

hopes it will be not the last win :) GL