I’ve finally won back all my losses from the June swoon. I had lost all my profits from playing $25NL when I moved up to $50NL.
Now I’m just about even at +$168. It took a little adjustment in $50NL but I’m comfortable playing at this level now. I just hope I can keep it up.
That being said, I’ve neglected my original $1k challenge on Pokerstars. I started this last year and I haven’t played much on Pokerstars ever since I joined FullTilt. So I decided that I was going to go back and re-start my challenge (which was the original idea for this blog).
I played in a .50 cent MTT on Pokerstars. I haven’t played a MTT in a long time (over 3 months according to my records). In order to “re-acquaint” myself to MTTs, I decided to play the micros. This is how I started to build my bankroll on Pokerstars by playing the FFP freerolls and winning enough money to play the micro MTTs and I slowly built my bankroll to over $130 doing this. It took a long time but it was a challenge that I put myself up to until I got sidetracked by joining Fulltilt.
I finished 31st out of 1,881 in this tournament and earned a robust $1.76 for my efforts. I know it isn’t much and could win way more playing cash but I just wanted to play MTTs again. I feel that if I can score a big cash in one of the MTTs I play in, I’ll be set.
This was the hand that did me in:
PokerStars Game #18877690110: Tournament #95822237, $0.50+$0.00 Hold’em No Limit – Level XVI (1500/3000) – 2008/07/17 – 00:17:31 (ET)
Table ‘95822237 48′ 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: MIG-Hardtekk (189875 in chips)
Seat 2: lerv3000 (89484 in chips)
Seat 3: ntrlpkr (41740 in chips)
Seat 5: brascoebawlz (50584 in chips)
Seat 6: CARLITO13005 (51851 in chips)
Seat 7: TzyKy23 (43166 in chips)
Seat 8: kawriverken (56414 in chips)
Seat 9: Big Master Q (37213 in chips)
MIG-Hardtekk: posts the ante 300
lerv3000: posts the ante 300
ntrlpkr: posts the ante 300
brascoebawlz: posts the ante 300
CARLITO13005: posts the ante 300
TzyKy23: posts the ante 300
kawriverken: posts the ante 300
Big Master Q: posts the ante 300
Big Master Q: posts small blind 1500
MIG-Hardtekk: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Big Master Q [Ts 3s]
lerv3000: folds
ntrlpkr: folds
brascoebawlz: calls 3000
MIG-Hardtekk said, “its 6:17 am over here ^^”
CARLITO13005: folds
TzyKy23: folds
kawriverken: calls 3000
Big Master Q: calls 1500
MIG-Hardtekk: checks
*** FLOP *** [As 5s 6h]
Big Master Q: checks
MIG-Hardtekk: checks
brascoebawlz: checks
kawriverken: bets 9000
Big Master Q: calls 9000
MIG-Hardtekk: folds
brascoebawlz: folds
*** TURN *** [As 5s 6h] [2s]
Big Master Q: bets 24913 and is all-in
kawriverken: calls 24913
*** RIVER *** [As 5s 6h 2s] [2h]
brascoebawlz said, “only midnight here”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Big Master Q: shows [Ts 3s] (a flush, Ace high)
kawriverken: shows [5c 5d] (a full house, Fives full of Deuces)
Big Master Q said, “nh”
MIG-Hardtekk said, “gg”
kawriverken collected 82226 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 82226 | Rake 0
Board [As 5s 6h 2s 2h]
Seat 1: MIG-Hardtekk (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: lerv3000 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: ntrlpkr folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 5: brascoebawlz folded on the Flop
Seat 6: CARLITO13005 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: TzyKy23 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: kawriverken (button) showed [5c 5d] and won (82226) with a full house, Fives full of Deuces
Seat 9: Big Master Q (small blind) showed [Ts 3s] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Too bad. I could’ve been real healthy if I had won that pot. Oh well there’s always next time. I think I’m going to stick with playing MTTs for the next few weeks to see how it goes. I’m hoping to score a big cash and then move onto the bigger buy-ins. For now I’m going to stick with the micros and then work my way up to the higher buy-ins. This was my original goal for my $1k challenge and I’m going to give it another try.
I’ll still play cash but I’ll mix it in with some MTTs on Pokerstars.
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