Time for a MTT

Today I played 7 sngs, mostly being satellites, and I finished ITM in 6 of them. I got first in a 5.50 razz sng, hah. Anyways, I have a $24+2 token left over, and decide to use it in the 25K GTD. Promptly at 8 pm we started, all with 1500 in chips, a prizepool of $36,048, and 1,502 players in the field, including one red pro - my arch nemesis Lee Watkinson, hopefully we would get seated together at some point in the tournament so I could bust his bitch ass. First hand I played was an a9o, which I raised from folded mp, the button called and all else folded. I checked when I missed the flop and he checked behind. The turn was a small card, the board now showing two clubs and two spades. I bet here to try to pick up the pot, even though I was fairly certain he hit the flop, and when he called I check folded the river when it came up blank. Lots of folding after this, and then it was lvl 2. ATo from mp again, I raise the pot as it was folded to me, the sb completes and the rest fold. I fold when the board shows 5qk and the sb bet about 1/2 the pot. Down to 1,045 in chips. In the big blind in the 25-50 level, I'm dealt tjo. when the short stack from the other hand calls the sb completes and were 3 handed seeing a flop. the flop comes t76. sb leads out 100, i raise to 300, short stack limper goes all in, sb calls, and I'm forced to fold leaving myself with 600 or so chips, the sb had a set of 7s and drew a full house to knock out the short stack who flopped a straight. A few hands later I see aqo in lp, so I push with lots of limpers, and sb isolates by repushing for like 2.4k. Rest fold and he shows aqo. We both river 5 hi straights and split the pot, giving me a few extra chips. After the blinds go around I'm somewhere around mp-lp and I see KK. Hurrah. The guy right before me raises to some dumb fucking amount and after I push behind him everyone folds except for the initial donkey who calls with aj. Board bricks and I'm at 1280, up to 20 bbs, and back in this thing. While folding my life away, I wrote a haiku!

folding is so fun
i enjoy it all the time
why cant I get hands?

Anyways, I fold some more, and when I am on the button I see that the blinds are at 50-100 and I'm in push fold mode, I wonder if I can win a coinflip tonight? So I get a9o from mp, and probably not one of my best pushes, but its folded to me, and perhaps after that KK hand I have some respect at this table? Well, too late to find out because soon I was moved to another table. And one hand after I was moved there was a break so it was off to highland market for some liquid fuel (dr. pepper to go with the pizza I ordered). I made it back with a whole minute to spare. We started with blinds at 60-120 and I have 1,060 in chips. In the co, I get a9o, lp limps to me, I push, folded back to him and he calls with 77. I flop a 9, but he got a 7 also, and he won knocking me out in 650th place.

There wasn't much I could do in this tournament. Maybe I should not have pushed after he limped at the end there, but I had a decent shot of winning when the cards were flipped, and I was so low in chips, I'd say it was a good move.

Degen

After the disgusting bubble in the 75 token game, I - again - lost my fucking mind and played cash games and sit n goes so aggressively that I was essentially giving money away.

BR: $16
Tokens: 0

Another 75 token race!

So with my token that I earned last night, it was time to donk it off in a 75 token race. With big hands early on, KK knocking out a donkey with q7, and stealing blinds with qq and other big aces, I was off to a great start and hopefully a token finish. A win tonight would be fantastic because IT IS FUCKING COLD ALL OF A SUDDEN. Literally cold enough to freeze my balls off today, I need to invest in some long johns or something... Anyways, I'm trucking along in the sng, and then this happens :(

Full Tilt Poker Game #1327178375: Tier Two $24+$2 Sit & Go (9314267), Table 2 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:07:18 ET - 2006/11/29
Seat 1: goldyvfl (2,795)
Seat 2: MrHank50 (1,160)
Seat 3: cdogg131 (3,015)
Seat 5: markbos (1,330)
Seat 6: jepas (2,170)
Seat 7: nmu94 (925)
markbos posts the small blind of 40
jepas posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to cdogg131 [Ad Qh]
nmu94 has 15 seconds left to act
nmu94 raises to 160
goldyvfl folds
MrHank50 folds
cdogg131 raises to 600
markbos folds
jepas folds
nmu94 raises to 925, and is all in
cdogg131 calls 325
nmu94 shows [Qc Kh]
cdogg131 shows [Ad Qh]
*** FLOP *** [9c Jd 3d]
*** TURN *** [9c Jd 3d] [6h]
*** RIVER *** [9c Jd 3d 6h] [Ks]
nmu94 shows a pair of Kings
cdogg131 shows Ace King high
nmu94 wins the pot (1,970) with a pair of Kings
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1,970 Rake 0
Board: [9c Jd 3d 6h Ks]
Seat 1: goldyvfl didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: MrHank50 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: cdogg131 (button) showed [Ad Qh] and lost with Ace King high
Seat 5: markbos (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: jepas (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: nmu94 showed [Qc Kh] and won (1,970) with a pair of Kings

Oh well, he'll go out if he keeps playing like that.

SURPRISE! Although it wasn't a poor move at all, I knocked his bitch ass the fuck out a little later with jj, he pushed my pot size raise, so I had to call about 300 more. He shows aqs, so we were off to the races. The flop comes
A (mother fucker) 3 (sigh) J (HOLY SHIT YES!) turn and river bricked the fuck out and he was done.

Later, with 99 on the button, 10 playaz left, I raise the pot and get pushed by the small stack in the sb. I call and he shows ato. Flop is A (doh) 3 (damnit man) 9 (AGAIN?! OH HELL YEAH! PAY BACK FOR ALL MY MISSED FLOPS WITH SMALL PPS!) Again the last 2 brick and its time for the final table.

At this point I decided to play only aks, aa, kk and qq. So a few hands later when I see qq utg, I pot raise and its folded around, at which point I show and go back to posting and folding with the chip lead.

This is taking forever, all the wrong people (short stacks) are winning their races :(.

About 20 minutes later we still have 9 left, and the blinds are HUUUUUGE.

The blinds get bigger much later with 8 left, and I'm now the third shortest stack...

Later, I'm swapping last place with the ss when the blinds come around, and I've gone from first to last. I see 55 utg and I push, its folded to the bb who calls with ajo. I of course can not win this coinflip, and get knocked out 7th, on the mother fucking bubble. Good game.

BR: 73.09
Tokens: 0

Back to token sngs

Being well rested, and having had a chance to calm down was very nice. I also think I got higher than an 86% on my econ test today, securing my A in the class. So it was time to try a turbo sng before soccer. For this sng I decided to try to be more aggressive, utilizing my skill in post flop play rather than pushing or folding the entire sng. When raising 9to from lp with 1 limper, the button and the limper called. The flop came 338, 2 clubs, so when the limper checked I bet about 2/3 and the button folded, and the limper called. The turn brought my money card, a 9, unless he limped an overpair preflop or is playing some sort of 3, I had the best hand. I pushed all of my chips and he called with 44. He did not improve and I was up and could relax for a few hands until the turbo blinds put me all in in about 4 minutes. Later with the short stack of about 600 chips on the button and me in the bb with kk, its folded to him who limps, sb folds and I raise, he re raises and I put him all he, he turns over aces, no improvement. I get called a donkey. Donkey indeed. Later I see 99 in the bb, and push into the utg+1 pot raiser who calls with ako. He doesn't improve, and I win yet another coinflip! At this point I have the big stack with only 10 left. Now it is time for me to wait and let the pawns kill themselves to give me my token. And just as I hoped after folding pretty decent hands like aqo etc, I got my token.

BR: $73.09
Tokens: 1 $24+2

10 + 1

Fuming over the terrible terrible occurence in the last sng, I decided to try a cash sng, seeing as how the tokens are simply not working out. Early on I have qko, I raise it and get called. Flop comes j52, I cbet after he checks, the sb calls, turn is a q, he bets and I push, and the fucking dick head folds. Next hand I get kk. So what do I do utg, I raise the pot. I get called by two idiots, and the flop is aq7. I fold after checking to their retarded bet. A few hands later with kts, I raise from lp, and get re raised. At this point I know I'm way behind, and am probably hoping for a flush. I call anyway and when the board gives me a ten I raise his pot size bet and he goes all in. I knew I was behind the whole way but I call anyways and he shows his fucking queens. I did not improve, and went out 6th out of 6. What a good game that was.

BR: 81.79
Tokens: 0.

24 + 2, 18 max

Immediately after winning the token, I put it to good use with my new found luck in an 18 max $24+2, $75 token race. Being used to the quick pace of a turbo, it was a wierd feeling to play more than 3 hands, but a welcome one. So playing the boring old SUPER tight strategy, I made it to the final table as a very short stack. Luckily, I got some big hands - which I don't think is too much to ask out of 60 hands, for one of them to be push worthy.
On the first bubble I was on the button with 99, the shortstack with 2 bets utg pushed, so I repushed when it was folded to me, and big stack mc dumbfuck calls my bet from the bb. The shorty shows a2s in clubs, the big stack with aqo. So the flop falls k52 rainbow, and I can taste the second bubble. But of course, the turn is an ace, killing me and giving both of them better hands. River brought a ten and I am knocked out in 8th place.

Good fucking game.

BR: 92.79
Tokens: 0. Again.

18 max, 8.70

After my econ review tonight, I got some panda express with courtney. I decided to play poker tonight after my fortune read "luck is in your favor, proceed in your endeavors" or some shit like that, so maybe I can win a coinflip tonight. Seated in LP, perhaps my luck was changing... But, approaching level 6 with only 1 person out, I knew I was in for another crapshoot, so we would soon find out what exactly was happening with my luck tonight.
Yes, it happened. My luck is back. I LOVE THE CHINESE AND THEIR FORTUNES!
Heres the gem that showed me that my luck is back:

Full Tilt Poker Game #1316348428: Tier One $8+$0.70 (Turbo) (9223680), Table 2 - 120/240 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:33:54 ET - 2006/11/27
Seat 4: UNC Tarheels 05 (4,620)
Seat 5: cincykid70 (4,435)
Seat 6: Roy L Shaft (2,400)
Seat 7: cdogg131 (1,950)
Seat 9: 530jack (965)
UNC Tarheels 05 posts the small blind of 120
cincykid70 posts the big blind of 240
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to cdogg131 [Kc As]
Roy L Shaft calls 240
cdogg131 raises to 1,950, and is all in
530jack folds
UNC Tarheels 05 folds
cincykid70 folds
Roy L Shaft calls 1,710
cdogg131 shows [Kc As]
Roy L Shaft shows [Ah Kh]
*** FLOP *** [Kd 6c Ac]
*** TURN *** [Kd 6c Ac] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 6c Ac 7c] [Jc]
cdogg131 shows a flush, Ace high
Roy L Shaft shows two pair, Aces and Kings
cdogg131 wins the pot (4,260) with a flush, Ace high

And when I saw the cards I thought he was going to make a flush, hah!

Finally at the final table with blinds of 300-600, I push from the button with tt, and get called by the bb who has a9, board bricks and I take the pot, and can post and fold to victory.
After a grueling 15 minutes, 6th went out with kj vs qq, and I won my token.

BR: 92.79
Tokens: 1 $24+2 token