WCOOP Event #3

Two weeks ago I won a 215$ ticket for the WCOOP. I decided to play event #3 (9max NLHE) with $2M guaranteed.

It had 12066 entrants and a prize pool of 2,413,200$, with 361.98$ for ITM and up to ~335k for the first place.

It started  at 11pm localtime on Sunday here in Germany. Given that I got semesterbreak that wasn´t really a problem. 

The table I was seated at the beginning of the tournament was very loose and I could collect chips by staying tight and only play really good hands.


This was the first hand that gave me a good amount of chips:

Seat 1: killacam477 ($9,945)
Seat 2: WILLY_PKR_BR ($12,395)
Seat 3: jmw86 ($9,770)
Seat 4: baconAVACADO ($7,665)
Seat 5: Lambo798 ($12,115)
Seat 6: wilddog1951 ($10,393)

Dealer

Seat 7: Oli_Tess ($11,200)

Posts small blind $40

Seat 8: ando206 ($8,432)

Posts big blind $80

Seat 9: TaikiYa ($9,285) 

Dealt to TaikiYa
 

Preflop: (Pot: $120)

FOLD killacam477
RAISE WILLY_PKR_BR, to $255
FOLD jmw86
FOLD baconAVACADO
FOLD Lambo798
CALL wilddog1951, $255
FOLD Oli_Tess
CALL ando206, $215
CALL TaikiYa, $175 

Flop: (Pot: $1,020)

  
CHECK ando206
BET TaikiYa, $650
FOLD WILLY_PKR_BR
CALL wilddog1951, $650
CALL ando206, $650 

Turn: (Pot: $2,970)

   
CHECK ando206
BET TaikiYa, $1,850
FOLD wilddog1951
CALL ando206, $1,850 

River: (Pot: $6,670)

    
BET ando206, $400
CALL TaikiYa, $400 

Showdown:

SHOWS ando206
 
SHOWS TaikiYa
 
TaikiYa wins the pot of $7,470 with two pair, Kings and Queens 

After this hand my chips blinded away until I could win a pot with AQ that gave me a stack of about 15k.

Another interessing hand might be this:

Table info:

Seat 1: Bandek ($18,401)
Seat 2: WILLY_PKR_BR ($26,024)
Seat 3: jmw86 ($6,593)

Dealer

Seat 4: baconAVACADO ($12,587)

Posts small blind $125

Seat 5: Lambo798 ($20,703)

Posts big blind $250

Seat 6: wilddog1951 ($10,209)
Seat 7: Oli_Tess ($5,163)
Seat 8: H0ldnemHall ($8,540)
Seat 9: TaikiYa ($14,440) 

Dealt to TaikiYa
 

Preflop: (Pot: $645)

FOLD Oli_Tess
FOLD H0ldnemHall
RAISE TaikiYa, to $600
FOLD Bandek
FOLD WILLY_PKR_BR
FOLD jmw86
CALL baconAVACADO, $600
FOLD Lambo798
FOLD wilddog1951 

Flop: (Pot: $1,845)

  
BET TaikiYa, $1,000
CALL baconAVACADO, $1,000 

Turn: (Pot: $3,845)

   
BET TaikiYa, $2,000
CALL baconAVACADO, $2,000 

River: (Pot: $7,845)

    
CHECK TaikiYa
BET baconAVACADO, $1,000
CALL TaikiYa, $1,000 

Showdown:

SHOWS baconAVACADO
 
SHOWS TaikiYa
 
baconAVACADO wins the pot of $4,922 with three of a kind, Aces
TaikiYa wins the pot of $4,923 with three of a kind, Aces 

After this hand I got 3 hand I could win a lot of chips with:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5672550

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5672551

I got moved to another table before this hand which was full of good players.(They were 2 or 3 fishes too, but compared to the first table, this one now was very tough)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5672555

After this hand I lost a couple of small pots and blinded down to about 10BB.

I probably avoided some risky but +EV spots because I wanted to get into the money.(on a 11$ MTT for example I would have played them definitely)

After I got in the money I only had 7.5 big blinds left and the first hand I got was this one:

Table info:

Seat 1: ne2aces1 ($88,012)
Seat 2: esprit ($14,546)
Seat 3: GhettoHomie ($42,210)
Seat 4: sagedecarte ($186,704)
Seat 5: 0_WILLIAM_0 ($39,740)
Seat 6: WhyMeGeez ($109,187)

Dealer

Seat 7: TaikiYa ($15,095)

Posts small blind $1000

Seat 8: yogi147 ($24,039)

Posts big blind $2000

Seat 9: jeanckilly ($116,965) 

Dealt to TaikiYa
 

Preflop: (Pot: $5250)

FOLD ne2aces1
FOLD esprit
FOLD GhettoHomie
FOLD sagedecarte
RAISE 0_WILLIAM_0, to $5,200
FOLD WhyMeGeez
RAISE TaikiYa, to $14,845 and is ALL-IN
FOLD yogi147
FOLD jeanckilly
CALL 0_WILLIAM_0, $9,645 

Flop: (Pot: $34,940)

   

Turn: (Pot: $34,940)

    

River: (Pot: $34,940)

     

Showdown:

SHOWS 0_WILLIAM_0
 
SHOWS TaikiYa
 
0_WILLIAM_0 wins the pot of $34,940 with a straight, Eight to Queen 

I finished in 1520th place (1530th people were paid) and won about 360$ which gave me a significant bankroll push :)

WCOOP Extreme Satellite

Hey,

I played a 11$ WCOOP Extreme Satellite last monday (50 seats added) and won a 215$ ticket :D

I could collect a lot of chips  very fast at the beginning. In mid phase I didn´t had many hands and blinded down to 5BB but at the bubble, where my table was very very tight and nearly every hand was folded to the bigblind, that was enough. There were only a few hands with action. Here is one of those: 

Seat 1: TaikiYa ($14,035)
Seat 2: jAkDAriPAA ($18,819)
Seat 3: MUHoosh33 ($21,388)
Seat 4: Max14x ($22,416)
Seat 5: Picasso 2 ($15,769)
Seat 6: adventurier ($19,425)
Seat 7: BobbyVe ($27,840)

Dealer

Seat 8: R0MMMAN ($18,620)

Posts small blind $1250

Seat 9: Aussie-Titan ($17,319) 

Dealt to TaikiYa
 

FOLD jAkDAriPAA
FOLD MUHoosh33
FOLD Max14x
FOLD Picasso 2
FOLD adventurier
FOLD BobbyVe
FOLD R0MMMAN
RAISE Aussie-Titan, to $5,000
RAISE TaikiYa, to $13,785 and is ALL-IN
FOLD Aussie-Titan
RETURN TaikiYa, $8,785 

In the end there were plenty of extreme short stacks with less than a bigblind and with my 5-6 bigblinds, the bubble was an easy one and I could win one of the tickets.

I guess I´ll play WCOOP event #3 on sunday with my ticket. :D

Pokerstars Quiz, #tpoker and a 4th place in a 2.20$/180s

In the last 5 days I played 93 tournaments:

• 20x 2.20$/180s 
• 70x 3.25$/45s
• The #tpoker tournament
• Daily 40k on Sunday
• Sunday 1/4 million

Overall I lost about 36$ in these 93 Tournaments.

My recent Graph for Aug 19 (restart of blogging) to Aug 22:

In the #tpoker tournament I finished in 273th place with JTs vs AKs by pushing in the Smallblind. (256 people were paid)

In the two 11$ tournament I busted early against draws.

I also finished a 2.20$/180 in 3rd place. My final hand there was this one:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5635993

I´m not really sure if that push was good.

In the night Friday to Saturday I finished the PokerStars quiz after 4.5 hours with 97%, so I get a chance to win a WCOOP ticket in the qualifier tournament. :D

Semerster break

The last months I had no time to play poker (ok I played but not much :P) or blog here because of my internship, that consumed most of my time. But now I have finished my internship and got semester break. so for the next 5 weeks I got enough time for poker and I´ll be able to blog regularly about my progress in poker.

I had some big swings of 30% of my bankroll the last weeks, so I´ll first try to build up my bankroll with mtt-sngs and add some real mtts when I finally pushed my bankroll a bit.

I´ll focus on the 3.25$ sngs with 45 players and the 2.20$ sngs with 180 players. 

At the end of the year, on New Year's Eve, I´ll visit Las Vegas for the first time. There I´ll try to play some live tournaments (buyin depends on my bankroll at the end of the year) and celebrate New Year's Eve with my friends.

New Month - New Beginning

Hello,

I haven´t wrote a blog post for a long time but now I´m back. The last month I had much to do and not that much time for poker. This month will be better I hope. I plan to play about 20 sngs a day on the 3.25$ limit with 45 players. Probably I might add some 6.50$/45s each session, depending on my Bankroll.

Last month I was slightly up, but I played nearly everything. 18 and 45 player sngs, HU sngs, MTTs, NL SH Cashgame, PLO Cashgame.

This month I´ll try to play mostly the 45 player sngs and add (on weekends) some mtts if my bankroll allows that.