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Yesterday, I woke up and decided to play some tourneys. The last two tries with tourneys, showed that I have hard time to focus in lower buyin tourneys because I am only interested in prices for the first few places. So I went to play some satellites for some bigger events.

I qualified for the Sunday Warm-up, bought in directly for the everest 100k Gtd and also registered for 20k Gtd 20+2 on PS and 8$rebuy . I tried one satellite for the PP 350k Gtd but busted and apparently this was the last satellite for the day.

So this was my second time that I played major Sunday tourney, the previous was more than an year ago and there I qualified for the Sunday million and busted one of the first hands with 200BB put on AA. However this time I decided to play my standard first levels loose and afterwords very tight game.

I busted early in the second hour of the 8Rebuy by running my AQ into an EP raiser with AA. Bad play me. I busted the 20k Gtd by using my running my AA into 99 for 20bb preflop and he hit. At this point I was left only with the Sunday warmup and the everest 100k. The everest game was much different than the PS, people are very tight and the gameplay was much slower. I succeeded to enter the money with only 5bb. And since the bubble was going hand to hand I played only like 5 hands on the bubble from MP w small stack that because of the hand-to-hand become even smaller once the blinds went up. I doubled up against a light pusher w A8s >>T7o and then I was just searching for my spots, until an EP shortstack pushed for 10bb and I called my 6bb w 99. He had KQs, but unfortunately the BB woke up w KK and I finished 47/861

The Sunday Warm-up, I played a standard game, doubled up trough some good tourney regulars that make a lot of moves against nits like me and then with 205 left from 3500 I overplayed an A2 from CO and BB woke up with AJ. Overall a nice experiment and winning ~1k from these two cashes certainly feels good. However, I am still beating my head, because I could have gotten away from A2 hand.

Anyways, I might do this again when I have some time in the weekends, I like the trill of this big tourneys.

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Played a small session today, I cannot belive som of the players out there.

I will post here the biggest and most interesting pots:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2898091 - First hand on this table, I flop the nuts for my hand and bet it twice, on the turn he coul have 87, but on the river I am sure he is weak. He called me down for 50bb with middle pair and some backdoor weak redraws. WTF?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2898110 - The villain from the previous hand left after the hand. I open a new table and he sits agaist me again. We play 3-4 small pots and then this comes up. Again brilliant top pair +backdoor flush draw +backdoor str8 draw for stacks.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2898123 - Villain in this hand lost two stacks for 10 minutes with some crazy maniakish plays. On the turn I honestly didin’t see the QJ str8 and figured he cannot have J7 and any str8 he should reraise with the two flush draws. The bet on river didin;t make much sense but i trusted my read and was wrong.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2898136 - Bluff raise gone wrong. This opponent was playing maniakishly, so he cbets his entire range. Hence I decide I can get him off good portion of it and I have soem backdoor redwaws if I am behind. He had a very strong draw but i hold

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Yesterday, I learned that, in PLO, you can go all in preflop with AAxx and still have only 10% equity.

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June is over and this is good because in absolute terms it is my first losing month. For most of the hands for the month I took a shot at 400NL that was not good. Afterwords I recovered a bit on 200NL and together with moving to PLO200 and having my first successful PLO month I almost reached break-even

In July I will put more hours and look very seriously into my game,so that I could take another shot next month. I feel like I can beat the game and all I need is a bit more discipline of folding when I am beat…

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The only thing better than winning a 4way PLO pot worth 72BB with overpair is winning a 4way 3bet pot with second pair, 5 minutes later.

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