Feeling good

So I’ve been playing quite abit and i just feel like i’m getting better everyday. I feel really confident in the early stages of the tournament and feel I can really accumulate chips. I’m getting good reads on people when I think they’re trying to steal from me. I’ve also really started just playing poker when I play MTT’s. The only distraction I might have is hockey but I only play one tourney when hockey is on so I still have some kind of idea how my table is.

Last few night I went pretty deep in the 27$ tourney at 8pm. Last night I was chipleader from about the end of the first hour up until we were down to maybe 50 peoples. I maybe played a hand a little too aggressive. I raised to steal blinds with 7 6 in middle position (been pretty much running over the table). The SB calls and BB folds. Flop came 6 5 2. He checked, I bet 10K, he raised me to 30K. I just really thought this guy had like K Q and was trying to take it from me because he thought I missed the flop. So I put him all in for 45K more. He had 80K at the start of the hand and I had 130K. He timebanked and finally called with 99. I guess it was an interesting way to play 99. Kinda wished I would have flat called the flop if the turn was the same, turn was A. And I’m pretty sure I would have put him in if he checked and knowing what I know now, he would have folded. I ended up finishing 27th. Went out against that same guy, he raised and I shoved with AK. He had KK, gg. He also took a huge pot early in the tourney, I had 60K and was big chip leader and he had 20K. I was on the button and raised with A 10 suited, and he re raise in SB, I put him in for 14.5K more and he called with 88. 10 on flop 8 on turn … would have been at 80K and 2nd in chips was at 30K. The worst part is, I was back to like 75K in no time. At one point I was at 132K and 2nd was at 90K. Rough way to end it but I’ll be back.

For live games, I played one session this week and finished up 780$. I missed one big draw when I had Ks 3s and the flop was 8s 5s 3h. I just check called all the way because I thought the players were pretty confident with their hands. I thought I could hit my K or 3 or spade to win, and I was right, player had JJ. He would really have hurt me if I went crazy with the hand.

Theres a couple interesting hands, but I’m just lazy today. I must say that theres some bad bluffs that worked that day. I never got caught, but it was a game where I could really get away with bluffing because players gave me a lot of respect and a lot of pretty tight players that won’t call down a big bet with just top pair.

Bad bluff, I limp with Qc 8c in cut off, button raises to 25 total. 2 peoples called and I called. Flop comes Ah Jh 8s. Checked around to button, he bets 40$, everyone folds to me and I call. Turn comes Ac, I bet out 65$ to find out if he has anything, but I was thinking he had some kind of PP. This is where this is bad, he would most likely expect me to bet if I had an Ace on the flop, but I checked called. He was thinking of raising, he took out chips, but decided to fold his Q’s. We saw the river, river was a Q.