2009 HERE WE COME

So, as normal it has been a quiet week alter all the Christmas and New Year celebrations.

I have made myself a game plan and it is working well so far (only 11 days in).

New Years Eve.
I am not much of a party person on New Years Eve, in fact it is probably the only night of the year I do not care to much for.
I went to go and see my dog which brought me a lot of joy only something I think you will understand if you have a dog…… and decided I will see more of her in 2009 as she no longer lives with me.

I came home and sat in the mixed 8 game. 2-7 triple draw, holdem, Omaha 8, razz, stud and stud 8 (all limit games) also in the mix is no limit holdem and pot limit Omaha.
This is the best value on the net I think.
I play 2/4 3/6 10/20 whatever game is going.
My goal is $1,000 a week off the net so a few hundred one day is all I am looking for.
I managed to win about a couple of hundred in less than 1 hr and logged off, some friends came over and we had a fun night at home with the Wii…………………..

January.
Couldn’t move my arm after 4 days on the Wii I think I over did it as always. Got the Wii fit and I must say it is very addictive and about the only thing I have had so far apart from a personal trainer that I actually do and enjoy especially as I do not have to go out in the cold.
Sunday 4th Jan 2009
Sunday million day.
To be honest I didn’t have a good feeling about playing this today but I qualified for $8 so why not.
I started with the intention to play my big hands aggressive and hope they stood up. Well after having AA KK QQ and AK in the first level and not winning one of them I was lucky that I still had any chips left. Maybe I was not aggressive enough LOL.

I saw that there was a $50 about to start with 100K guaranteed and not many runners so there would have been good added $. By the time it started there were nearly 3000 players so the guarantee was meet but still $18K for first. This should be fun.
I was down and out and pissed away my last 900 chips in the million just as the $50 tourney started; Marvelous I didn’t want to play it now.
I was playing in 10/20 mixed games and showing my brother how bad they actually are as they call with anything all the way and when you go into hand history you can see there mucked hands.
I was up $1,000 after not even 30 min and we were now only 2 players left at the table. He didn’t want to play me anymore after I took most his money and told him he needs to pull up more or I would leave as there is a no limit game and a pot limit game involved.
The $50 comp.

I was off to a flyer people were giving there chips away I was in shock. I was in the top 20 within 20 min and stayed there pretty much trough out the event.
I took some time outs to go play Wii for a while and my bro would sit in and let me know my cards as I shouted FOLD every time to him. We had a discussion about AJ in 1 hand where a player with big chips had raised and it was me to speak.
I asked him what he would do and he said call, maybe raise. I said we would talk after the hand as we only had a few seconds to act but he has to fold. He did and then I explained why.
My computer managed to freeze on me and I was timed out, this is not good as you lose your time bank which sometimes is needed later on in the comp. the field was shortening rapidly and we were in the $ if you call $60 in the money after a few hours.
I had already looked to see how long this event normally takes and I knew I was in for a good 8 our stint.
Next thing I know we are down to 100, then 60, then 30 and I was still up there in the top 10. I had been playing well and wish this was the day I had filmed it.
Problem was the pay out. 16-18 $250 WTF then 14-16 $300 12- 14 $400 10-12 $600
9th $1000, 8th $2000, 7th $3000, 6th $4000, 5th $5000, 4th $7000, 3rd $10,000, 2nd $13,000, 1st $18,000.

So not a good night if not on final table. I was chip leader with 30 left and for some reason my pc froze again. This time nothing was happening it would not come back on I rebooted tried everything. I logged on through another pc but as I hadn’t signed out on mine I could not log on through the new one. What was this all about and why have they made it like that? It never used to be.
Anyway, 10 min passed, 20 min passed and I thought I was doomed I would have worked for 6 hours and then just been blinded out and maybe gat $200. Finally after 30 min I managed to get on using my other pc and had lost over 150,000 in chips and was back in 24th place out of the 26 left. I was not a happy boy but knew if I worked hard and focused for 2 hrs I could get at least $10K. This was now my target. It was now 04:30.
I managed to climb back up the leader board and fast I guess people thought I was gambling as I had been off line for a while. I thought all the bad players were out, apparently not.
After nearly 2 hours we reached the final table. I was 2nd in chips and suggested a deal 7K each that was 4th place money in fact was a little more as 4th was $6875 or something. Believe it or not only 1 player from the 9 wanted to deal. I was in shock; they all thought they should get more that 7K or that they were going to win it. So we played. The cocky ones were the first to go. I had to type something as I wiped them out, you were right glad I didn’t do a deal was obvious you would be 9th……. Lol lol was coming from the players. 1 down 7 to go. Before to long we were 5 handed. Here I also suggested a deal 10K each. There were 2 of us with big chips and 2 short stakes. I said if this is not fair then suggest a deal as it was now coming up to 07:00 and I had a meeting in 2 hours and needed some sleep.
Break ended and NO deal was made. 5th place feel and 4 handed I raised as I was doing a lot. This time it was against the chip leaders BB and I had AA. He re-raised me so I made a massive over raise and went all in. He called like a snap call with AJ I was in shock. So the normal Jack high flop he didn’t hit again and I now had over 4 million in chips.
I wrote again anyone want to do a deal???? No one, wow.
Finally we were 3 handed where I suggested 13K each and play for 2K extra. Nope the crazy fool didn’t want to.
We played 3 handed for about 30 min and the short stack managed to double up 4 times, 3 times though me which was sick but nothing I could do a raise with AJ and a call then 2 7 J flop it all went in, normal 3 handed play.
My final hand I flopped a straight and a flush draw as well as my live cards but A high managed to stand up and I was gone. I was happy though as I made $10K which really is 10 weeks work and I also took $1K in the cash games. A good night all round.

Monday morning. I was a mess, to be honest 1 nights missed sleep and I was a mess the whole week.

Off to Brighton to play the GUKPT next week so looking forward to that and a good result there as I feel my tourney poker has got a lot better.