The clubs of death!

Vegas poker week is finally over. It was a good time. Met up a lot of friends, and did some heavy drinking. To be honest i was a bit tamer than i thought id be, due to the whole marriage coming up, plus i rested my body a day due to a nice mtt run.

The V 330 deepstack, started with 750 and at the beginning of it, my boy and i swapped 10%. Wouldnt u know heading into day two with 54 left, both of us were still in. 54th still didnt pay much, but i had a good stack and my buddy is a great mtt player and knows how to play a shortstack so i was pretty confident one of us would make it deep. I had some swings, avoided all ins like the plague, and just picked spots to keep my chips moving up.

With about 30 left my buddy busted out for about 1300. With me still in that basically meant id take 130 off the 10% id pay him after i took this down.

Some mtt's u just know ur just hanging on waiting for ur bustout hand. But some u just know ur going to win. This one felt like a winner. I was picking my spots, winning the key pots, and losing the marginal ones rather than the big ones. I had just busted somebody in 13th to take us to 12. Two, 6 handed tables. An orbit or so in i get Ac 8s and open to 2.5x utg on about a 25x stack. The bb, a swede who played like..... a swede calls. Flop is 9c 8c 3c and the swede leads into me for 2.75x. A lot of these types of players do this with pairs or air, and a repop normally gets u the pot. In this case i have middle pair and the NFD and decide i just want to ship it and maximize FE vs top pair hands, and if i get called im getting it in with good odds.  I ship and he snaps with Qc 7c, gg me.

So i came up short. The story of my life when running deep in big mtt's. I won some when playing nl cash games, and dumped that plus some of this tourney profit into bs 67s games. Next trip i will stay away from the 67s blood baths and play some nlhe with tourist and shit local players instead, as well as my normal mtt or two, chasing the big score.

My first day back on ftp, i played for an hour or so up 3 buy ins, wife called and make that half a buy in up. Then today up 3 buy ins with not much motivation to play and some errands to run and i called it a day.

Wife is coming to town on friday, and ill be with her all weekend. Then im going up there for the 4th and hopefully moving by end of july to sac. So its going to be a busy month or two and getting settled in/looking for secure work will surely take away from poker. Volume/blog posts will drop off, but i really enjoy writing this and will keep at it as much as i can.

Heres to not always being a damn bridesmaid in big mtt's

Mr. Shit