Certainly going to be a tl;dr
Be glad I'm up from tourneys? You say that as if I'm supposed to be down and not up even more money in MTTs. I'll give you a breakdown for how I busted in nearly every tourney with over 5 figures for 1st where I "had a chance".
Supernova quarterly freeroll: started as chip leader when we got to 2 tables with 18 player left, didn't get down to 15 players for ~6 blind levels, possible longer, don't remember exactly but it was definitely at least 90 minutes at 15 minute blind levels. Ran A
Q
into KK ~17bb deep (was one of the bigger stacks at that point... lol 17bb), flop comes 2
2
4
... I bricked out and out in 13th, guy who eventually went on to win it (was at other table) ended up winning 99 aipf 3 ways to triple up one "villain" had QQ, forget what the other guy had. My edge with the chip lead massively decreased because a bunch of nits just kept folding for a $250 pay jump from 18 - 16th place to 13 - 15th place, so positions didn't change much, only thing that changed was effective stack sizes being more than halfed so that everyone was incredibly shallow which made it a huge luck fest with not much skill involved at all. 13th for $4750, 1st was $150,000
Sunday million, busted in 48th place, make a post about some of the hands in the current SSBBV thread you are reading:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=12526
If you look at the stack sizes in my bust out hand you may be wondering to yourself why the BB has 3x as many chips as anyone else at the table... well that's because he got his TT aipf vs my KK (he 3b my raise then tanked down and called my shove) a few hands earlier, if you take a look at my stack size... It's pretty ****ing obvious I didn't win. 48th for $2793, 1st $246,424
Screwed real hard countless times in the daily 90g and nightly 70g on Stars, most recently I got in a really sick spot at I believe 2K/4K blinds (was approx 200K deep) where I had 88 and accidentally made slightly more than a min raise from UTG to 8.9K instead of the intended 9.8K, Idiot from the HJ shoves ~98K, big stack that has me covered just flats the shove in the BB which is for ~1/3 of his chips. Obv I fold my 8s since BB's range is very nutted, HJ has AT, moron that coldcalls the shove has AQ, flop comes 228, I puke. Same tourney:
Poker Stars $50+$5 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t2000/t4000 Blinds + t400 - 8 players
The Official
2+2 Hand Converter By
DeucesCracked Poker Videos
BB: t222186 M = 24.15
UTG: t70513 M = 7.66
UTG+1: t82854 M = 9.01
MP1: t154157 M = 16.76
Hero (MP2): t187341 M = 20.36
CO: t51412 M = 5.59
BTN: t261608 M = 28.44
SB: t292211 M = 31.76
Pre Flop: (t9200) Hero is MP2 with Q
Q
2 folds,
MP1 raises to t12000, Hero calls t12000,
4 folds
Flop: (t33200) 9
8
K
(2 players)
MP1 checks, Hero checks
Turn: (t33200) T
(2 players)
MP1 bets t16000, Hero calls t16000
River: (t65200) Q
(2 players)
MP1 bets t28000, Hero calls t28000
Final Pot: t121200
MP1 shows 3
A
(a flush, Ace high)
Hero mucks Q
Q
MP1 wins t121200
Top of my range, hard for him to show up with Jx that doesn't cbet the flop. Same tourney:
Poker Stars $50+$5 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t2500/t5000 Blinds + t500 - 7 players
The Official
2+2 Hand Converter By
DeucesCracked Poker Videos
UTG: t192890 M = 17.54
UTG+1: t46964 M = 4.27
MP: t73385 M = 6.67
CO: t144200 M = 13.11
BTN: t190160 M = 17.29
Hero (SB): t247602 M = 22.51
BB: t240289 M = 21.84
Pre Flop: (t11000) Hero is SB with Q
Q
5 folds,
Hero raises to t14000, BB calls t9000
Flop: (t31500) Q
J
A
(2 players)
Hero bets t17000, BB calls t17000
Turn: (t65500) T
(2 players)
Hero bets t20000, BB calls t20000
River: (t105500) 4
(2 players)
Hero checks, BB checks
Final Pot: t105500
Hero shows Q
Q
(three of a kind, Queens)
BB shows 8
9
(a straight, Eight to Queen)
BB wins t105500
Probably one of the sickest pseudoslowrolls ever, he checks behind and I'm sitting there fist pumping like sweet he didn't have a King, ship it... and then I see the bad news. Didn't even post the 4 or so other HH that happened with < 50 left where I lost decent chunks of chips losing hands like AJ aipf vs TJ. I Ended up busting in 14th for $565, 1st was $13,937.
Less than a week ago ended up losing AA vs 77 aipf for the chip lead with 25 left in the 50-50 on full tilt, busted soon after because I lost 90%+ of my chips in the AA hand, got $200 or something, first was somewhere between 9K and 10K, don't remember.
Did I run bad in the HU "battle" in a lot of MTTs where I finished 2nd but had enough Sklansky bucks to win the tournament 3 or 4 times? Yes, would the couple of players who have sweating/railed me at final tables agree I ran like ****? Yes.
I don't know why a bunch of you guys think I run ridiculously hot or something, there are maybe only a handful of players on PokerStars in 2010 (where the vast majority of my cash play was) who have run worse. Did I "lose" a substantial amount of money in the PokerStars PLO games this year? Yes, all you have to do is check PTR to confirm. Did I have major tilt Issues where I would routinely light money on fire by shoving stacks in after losing a bunch of pots in a row thus making my run bad effectively many times worse? Yes. Did I get coaching sessions for PLO because I was at my wits' end at why I would just consistently lose for practically the entire year no matter what my EV said I should be up? Yes I did, and after my first sweat session I was told "I really don't know why you aren't beating these games because you definitely should be, my best advice to you would be to just keep playing through your downswing and eventually it will turn around." (kinda dislike putting it in quotes because its not a direct quote and somewhat paraphrased, but did so to separate it from my text). Obviously I felt I learned a lot in the session and so booked another session, towards the end of the second sweat session I asked him what separates a winning player at 100PLO from a winner at 600 or 1K PLO and we discussed that for a bit. He then recommended that I actually start taking shots at higher stakes (1/2 - 2/4) because I would be able to beat the games and that the rake would be less of an issue, even though I was losing (real dollars) at 100PLO at the time. In case you were wondering how I did in terms of $ won (lost) over the 2 sweat sessions for around 1200 hands? I ended up losing ~$1350 at 100PLO while being sweated by one of the biggest winners in those games. I certainly think he is a great person and PLO coach and would recommend him to anyone looking to get coaching, but losing at like 50ptBB over the coaching sessions just made me wonder even more why I couldn't ever book winning sessions. And if you are sitting there wondering who I got coaching from because you are looking to book some sessions don't even worry about it, not going to be worth your money or his time because you are probably too dumb to learn anything if you can't deduce who it is
SeakingsNotes:
I don't run good at any form of poker.
You would have to be a moron to think I run good.
I tilted incredibly bad for all of 2010 after running bad and light money on fire quicker than a drunk JorgeArias.
Got PLO coaching, learned a lot, still ran like ****.
Even more Stars regs are complaining about running bad this year because they can't steal my EV because I don't play the games any more
.
Xr8ed is still a pussy and wont play me.
And about MTTs, obviously any MTT you final table or do really well in you ran incredibly hot, no way around that, if you play enough MTTs you will have big scores from time to time. I'm not sitting here saying I didn't run hot in the MTTs I took top 3 in because I did, but you can't ignore the other 1550 MTTs that I played and didn't. The long run is long...
btw Snort I think you are the last person who should say anything about me running good, I'm 99% sure you are the person who has run the most above EV vs me per hand played.
End of rant.
Good luck at the tables