ALOHOLLA- DEEP RUN BLUES

 

I took the day off on Tuesday to clear my head and give myself time to concentrate on school. Obviously I didn’t neglect poker entirely I 2 hours in the morning dedicated to improving my short stack play, specifically with 5-15BBs  as I feel like this is my weakest part of my game. I watched several PXF videos on this topic and did some self-assessments of my own past HHs. I felt like I learned a lot and could use this improved knowledge to help my game in these spots.

 

Fast-forward to Yesterday, in the morning I woke up made breakfast, went to 24 hour fitness spent 15 minutes on the bike, 30 minutes lifting, and an hour playing basketball. I shot around for 20 minutes then played 2 games of 3-on-3 to 15pts. after that I showered up and got myself ready to play.

 

I played the $11 20k, $11 1r1a, the $109 25k on Pokerstars as well as the $75 35k on FTP. I made it to the second hour in all of the tournaments before getting coolered in the 20k, 1r1a and suffering a AK loss to AQ in the 35k. As for the 25k I played great imo. I rocked the shortstack with extreme confidence and effectiveness. After losing AK to AA for half 2/3 stack in the 1st hour I managed to come back to a respectable stack size but still short all the way through the third hour. At which point I tripled up with AA then chipped up very nicely without a showdown catapulting myself into a top 3 stack with 50 remaining. At which point I went absolutely card dead and my 45bb stack dissipated into a 10bb stack approaching the final 2 tables. ( I didn’t just blind down I lost a 20k pot bvb w/ A7 vs 8T on a 228A8 board, when I paid off a 2/3ps river bet and also lost a 20k pot aipf when I shoved the bb who had 8bbs w/ TJs and he snapped w/ K3. also I blinded down a bit ) with 16 players remaining, I’m in the sb w/ 9ish BBs and I look down at QQ. It gets folded around to the button who raises to 3x and I instantly reship my stack in his face, the BB shoves over the top an additional 8bbs and the button snap calls. The button holds KK, the BB holds 99 and my QQ is DOMINATED. The flop hits the BB right in the face as his 9 instantly falls, neither myself nor the button catch up and the BB triples up on a HUGE suckout.  GG me. What an unavoidable cooler which seems to be the trend for me recently.

 

 I’ve managed to make the Final 2 tables like 15 times in the past 2 months and every time I get coolered or unlucky and can’t muster anything better then an 8th place finish in any tournament of value. I mean I did get a 3rd place in an $11 10 min levels for like $1600 but that wasn’t significant at all as the buy in dictates. I just want to breakthrough that hump in the $100 buy ins. I have an 2 6th place finishes, an 8th and COUNTLESS 10-18th place finishes. It’s starting to get very frustrating. I’m breaking the drought this week, believe that! MAHOLLA!

 

On a similar positive note my boy Moh, aka Chicagocards1, aka sms9231 took down that same $109 25k on pokerstars that I took 16th in for nearly 12k. He’s also made deep runs in the 65k and 22r in the past 3 days. Needless to say it was well deserved and long overdue congrats Moh you’re a fucking BEAST keep up the good work man. On a side note, pocketfives.com needs to RANK CHICAGOCARDS1 already.

 

MAHOLLA