By DeuceSeven on February 23rd, 2008 (more posts by author)

I'm making this entry about 48 hours after I took 4/560ish runners in the stars $33/5k. This cash gave was my biggest, $1270. I had a $500 coin flip when I got it in preflop vs a 15bb stack that I had well covered with AQ vs 88. I flopped trips, he hit the 8 on the river. I then tried a resteal and follow up cbet that didn't work. I ended up going out with about 17bbs when I shoved over the maniac buttons perfunctory raise with a perfect resteal hand 89s, he happened to have a hand ATs and he flopped trips and I was drawing dead on the turn. I changed up my strategy instead of playing a lag small ball style I decided to play power poker with an m <= 10 from the last 30 people in.

It worked very well. I don't know how many times I pushed, it was alot, I got called in three spots. JJ>TT, AK>AJ, AQ>88. I went from being 11/14 to being 2/8 until I lost my AQ vs 88 4 handed. I ran really bad at the final table, I had AQ 2x that saw a flop, folded once, and had to call with tp vs trips for a decent pot. I had 99 2x and had to fold when a tight player called then led into me and when I got called by 2 players and saw an Aqx flop.

This score is HUGE for me. I now have a very solid 3k roll. I started that day with a 1.8k roll which meant I was a couple weeks of running really bad to having to move down to playing nothing higher then $11 mtts. I've scraped my $550 staking myself experiment since I hit this nice score. I'm just going to stick with buy ins up to $33 and maybe play one or two $55 mtts.