So I haven't been able to play much lately because I have a buddy of mine in from Arizona. It's been more of a booze filled week with late night food binges mixed in here and there. Since I haven't been able to get wrapped up in any tournaments due to the time commitment, I've been dabbling in the short handed cash games. I've been focusing on heads up play trying to improve that part of my game.
$1/$2 has been my pick of the litter and has been treating me quite well. I think I have found a glitch in my game that I am now slowly fixing. Take a look at these stats from these my shots at $1/$2 lately.
| Game | Total Hands | VPIP | Amount Won | BB/100 | PF Raise% | Total Agg. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hold'em NL($2) 6 Max | 1,751 | 25.01 | $1474.75 | 21.06 | 17.42% | 2.42 |
I think I've been playing well focusing solely on limited tables and specific players. I also think I've found something that I like in heads up cash game play and I hope in it the near future Stars will open tables that cater more to this.
So after all this I brought my bankroll to a little over 5K and was ecstatic with that progress. Then just last night I knew we (my buddies and I) were staying in for the night, so I decided to play in the 1:00am $109 30K guaranteed. It got around 400 players and paid out close to 10K for first place. I hadn't played a tourney in a while so right off the bat I was playing tighter than my ass hole and wasn't really picking up any cards to make moves. Then a hand came up where yes it was a questionable play but my thought process was to either double up and have some chips to work with or go home.
I was holding 67dd in the BB when it was raised 3x from early position with one caller. The blinds were at 75/150 and my stack was right around 3K. I made the call and flopped the diamond draw. Now normally I would hesitate to stick much more in this pot, but given the action I thought this was a good shot to either win a monster or bust. I checked and 3/4 pot size bet was made and called by the first and second player to act. So here is what we are looking at, 2750 in the pot they both have fold equity and I have the draw. I push on the pot and get called by a monster...a set of tens! Oh but a diamond come on the river and I ship a nice size pot and at that point had a top 20 stack. From there I was able to maneuver with ease picking up pot after pot. I played a great tourney and reached the final table about 4 hours into play. I was 8/9 going in, and the payouts were very top heavy so I was on my best behavior for the first few orbits. I had an action packed table and was able to make some moves to chip up to the middle of the pack. After all was said and done I got all my money in 4 handed with an A9 vs. JJ. I flopped my ace but he turned one of his remaining two jacks and I busted in 4th taking $3,200.
Not a bad day considering I had a great $1/$2 session netting around 2 buy in's earlier as well. Well now I have a pretty hefty roll of $8,700 and are quickly approaching the 10K mark!
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