Swing up

Gee an upswing feels good! Poker’s such a brutal game. When you’re running bad you wonder if it’s even possible to win, just cashing seems like a massive battle. And when your running well you think you’re the best player in the world and its just the easiest game.

Anyway after a week of not winning an all in preflop I wasn’t exactly looking foward to Monday. I definately didn’t expect to final table two majors. I came 2nd in the Titan main weekly tourney for 31k. It’s not a particularly good structure when it gets deep in this tourney so I had to run very well to get there. I found myself heads up with about a 2:1 chip lead. The guy I was up against wasn’t particularly good but didn’t make less than two pair a hand and I eventually lost when I got it in on a 932 flop with 96 vs QQ. I was pretty frustrated because I have a record of 2nd’s in big tourneys (that my friends like to remind me of) and there was a 25k difference between 1st and 2nd. Can’t complain though.

I stopped adding at 10am with the FTOPS main event and at about 3pm I was doin well in that tourney, the Second Chance on and the Sunday 500 both on stars.   I lost back to back races to go out of the second chance and withered away in the Main Event but I went on an insane rush of 20 hands in the Sunday 500 which included QQ>10s blind vs blind followed by to blind steals with JJ/AK, followed by A10>AK blind on blind and then AQ>10s and all of a sudden I was chip leader with about 30 left. I swung up and down a bit from there and came into the final table with 25bbs. I hung around for a bit before running AA into KK and KQ (thats standard isn’t it?) to almost triple. From there I had a running battle with one of the players with him getting the edge over me. Then 4way i raised the button with 55 and he defended from the BB. Flop came down 9cl 6cl 5. He checked I bet, he reraised, I shoved and he called with Q9 drawing semi dead. This took me to chipleader by a decent margin and I was in good position, opening almost every pot and dominating. Then two of the player got it all in and one of them was reduced to 1bb. The 1bb player then proceeded to double and then double again. Now, I couldn’t really open as many pots since he had about 10bb’s and was on my left. Shortly after it folded to me in the SB and I shoved on him with 75 and he snapped with A6 and left me drawing dead on the flop. I folded some more and blinds went up and now I was somehow down to 13bb. It folded to me on the button and I shove 109s and the same guy made the call with 7s from the small blind. I bricked and came 4th for 43k.

I went through my usual ritual of mouse smashing and chair throwing before comming to the realisation that I had to get very lucky to get to that situation and that I probably ran better than 95% of players to get the results I did for the day.

Anyway all’s well that ends well and hopefully I can keep this rush going for a while

Kochan

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