Successful Day

I played poker for around 8 hours today... MTT for 6 hours and cash for 2 hours. Nutedawg talked me into playing the WCOOP Event #26, which is a $320 buyin MTT 6 max event. He was right... the players were brutal, so I'm somewhat happy that I played in it.

But I really dispise MTTs because it always seems like you play for so long, play so well, all to just get screwed in the late stages. I ended up getting 308th place and making a profit of around $200... I don't know how MTT pros make enough money to live off of but I guess some of them do. But every time I play an MTT and suffer through it, I'm reminded of how lucky I am to be able to beat cash games... I don't think I could be a professional MTT or SNG player, even though I have the skills for it. It's just so frustrating because it seems like you have a lot less control over your fate as compared to cash games.

Of course I got busted out when I got it in as a huge favorite with AK vs AQ all in pre-flop. The situation was just dumb as I 3-bet this guy's UTG raise and was OBVIOUSLY pot committed as I had put in 1/3 of my stack... yet he ships in AQ on me (obviously I should be happy he did) but he binks a Q and I'm out of the tourny and have no shot at the $150k first prize (there was $1 million in prize money total in the tournament).




The sad thing is, is the guy that busted me is actually supposed to be a good MTT player. He has won $200k career from MTTs and writes articles for Cardplayer magazine... but he's still an idiot! Just goes to show how clueless most MTT pros are. I don't even consider MTT tournament poker actually "true poker." It's more like a form of poker that people can play if they don't have a clue of what to do... and they still have a chance to win. You throw most of these players that were playing this tourney into a 6 max cash game and I bet the majority of them can't beat 25NL, which is pitiful.

I did really well in my two hours of cash play though. I ended up making about $2k from that while playing on Cake.

Here's a pretty funny hand from my cash session:

I don't know if my shove is any good or not.. It probably isn't terrible since I'm get getting called by JT, 9T, QJ maybe, and some other hands. But it's hilarious that he folded the best hand and confidently showed it!


It feels nice to have a day where I crush pretty decently. I think switching sites really messes me up, because the game flow is so different. I'm going to try and stick to the same site for a decent period of time from now on and not keep switching around so often.