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Hi Guys,

Sorry for the couple weeks of between posts. I took some time off from poker because I was just not feeling it. I was so burnt out that I was spewing money, so I needed a break. Couple that with the start of football season and some hectic things around the house, and I just forgot about poker for a while.

Anyway, I played last night. Heres the recap:

I played poker last night for the first time in a week. realllly wasn't feeling it, shit away some sngs on full tilt to start, and thought that the break needed to continue.

Then fired up stars, played the 11pm 30 freezeout (1500 chips), the 11pm 100 freezeout (3000 chips), and a 2000fpp rebuy to wcoop 14.

11pm 30 freeze i entered midnight break with 4600, then lost on first hand after break. utg limps, I 4x AA in mid pos. UTG calls. Flop Q46, he leads out 400, I shove, he calls AQ, finds a Q on the turn.

11pm 100 freeze i entered midnight break with 4200. around 12:45 i'm sitting on 5700 and i limp utg with AA. 4 callers @ 100 200, gets to button who makes it 800. BB calls (stack of 7500), I reraised to 2200. folds to button, he folds, BB calls. Flop KQJhhh, I have Ah. He checks, I shove, he calls. Kx10h for him. Turns a 9 gg.

So fish that I lose two tourneys in a row with AA. It's like the reverse bluechip corollary.
Guess I should explain that- the bluechip corollary is when you'find an opponents AA to lose greater than 50% of your tournaments over a given sample size.

11:15pm 2000 fpps rebuy turbo wcoop sat. I have 20,000 fpps by the way. I rebuy for 4000 to start. It plays really tight, and we start with 1k chips. I stack a guy with 33 on a 348 flop vs his JJ to double. Then 1 min before break, I find KK utg. I open shove at 100 200 for 4600. 4 callers. Peal a K to quad up. I addon at the last second of break to try to get the total seats up to 3 (didn't get there). After break I nit around and make it to final two tables. Blinds are now obscene, 500/1000 avg stack 8000. I get to final table short. I somehow survive to final 6. We play 6 way for on unheard of 1 hour with avg stacks ~12000 and 1500/3000 blinds. Then we lose 2 on one hand when JJ open shoves, AK calls button, A10 suited calls bb as big stack and sees a board of A24410 to ellim two. 4 way big stack is horribly bad, he is my small blind and folds the blinds to me each time without ever challenging. Occasionally he limp folds to my shove. We get three way and me and other guy both have 17000, big stack has 40000. We play 3 way for 30 minutes. My position is amazing- big stack keeps folding to me, and the bb is so tight that I can steal his blind fairly quickly. Other short stack finally shoves on big stack. QK < A9, so I won the seat. OMFG I can't believe I won a tournament. Too bad it was a zero buy in, but hey still got the seat. Now here's the bankroll management question: what to do with the $1040 W dollars. I can exchange them at cashmanbrian.com for $832, and try to build my roll on stars back from $1000. Conversely, I can play the 1000 buy in wcoop event. I'm leaning towards playing the event and possibly cashing, maybe even ft'ing, and slight chance of winning. I think I gotta go for it now. Also, I might try to win this same tournament every night this week, since it is so fish. If I win it a 2nd time I'm deffinetly playing.

Alright that is all for today. I'm back to the blog scene so keep reading, tell all your college friends who are learning poker about the site, and if you live in new england and have a live game going post it in the comments section.

Pat