First Win!
Well since the 31st of December I have been on tear like no other. I have made 7 final tables, and have cashed 11 times in MTT’s. To top it all off, I had my first MTT win ever. Don’t get me wrong I have made a bunch of final tables before this and have had numerous cashes but nothing like these past couple weeks. It was awesome to get my first win especially after hitting 2nd place twice and one 3rd place. I was almost feeling cursed that I could not hit number one. Only bad thing was that none of my FT were huge tournaments or large buy in's. Mostly $30 to $20 buy in’s with small fields. I did hit second on a $5 buy in with 400+ people.
At none of these FT was I the chip leader when the FT started. In most I was short or in the bottom 5. But in the one I won I was in 6th place when the FT started. Player on my immediate right was a super aggressive guy that like clock work when folded to him he would always raise on the button or SB. I got a good chunk out him when he did so at one point but I mostly let him steal (I was hoping to set him up in the future to take all of his chips). That is until the FT when he did it again when I was in the SB with pocket 66. At this point we had lost at least one person and I had chipped up some. He went all in on the button and it was for ½ of my stack but I had already hoped that it would fold to Mr. Clockwork because I knew he would go all in with anything and I didn’t mind going for a coin flip, so I insta called him. Obviously I won but he showed a stronger hand than what I expected with Kd-Jd. At that point I just wanted to take a chance to increase my stack. After that I mostly ran over the table. Almost every time pots odds dictated a call, I called no matter what I held and 90% of the time I won it (spiking a 7 vs. AQ all in pre-flop holding 87s as an example). The only time I didn’t make a call was when I was in the BB with 4-2o and I was getting 5:1 on my money. I just couldn’t do it. Unfortunately the flop came J-4-2 rainbow and I would have taken down a huge pot.
Any ways I am extremely happy with my play this month and hopefully I will be able to improve on it next month.
At none of these FT was I the chip leader when the FT started. In most I was short or in the bottom 5. But in the one I won I was in 6th place when the FT started. Player on my immediate right was a super aggressive guy that like clock work when folded to him he would always raise on the button or SB. I got a good chunk out him when he did so at one point but I mostly let him steal (I was hoping to set him up in the future to take all of his chips). That is until the FT when he did it again when I was in the SB with pocket 66. At this point we had lost at least one person and I had chipped up some. He went all in on the button and it was for ½ of my stack but I had already hoped that it would fold to Mr. Clockwork because I knew he would go all in with anything and I didn’t mind going for a coin flip, so I insta called him. Obviously I won but he showed a stronger hand than what I expected with Kd-Jd. At that point I just wanted to take a chance to increase my stack. After that I mostly ran over the table. Almost every time pots odds dictated a call, I called no matter what I held and 90% of the time I won it (spiking a 7 vs. AQ all in pre-flop holding 87s as an example). The only time I didn’t make a call was when I was in the BB with 4-2o and I was getting 5:1 on my money. I just couldn’t do it. Unfortunately the flop came J-4-2 rainbow and I would have taken down a huge pot.
Any ways I am extremely happy with my play this month and hopefully I will be able to improve on it next month.
posted by Acesfull at 3:46 PM
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