I'm making this entry about 48 hours after I took 4/560ish runners in the stars $33/5k. This cash gave was my biggest, $1270. I had a $500 coin flip when I got it in preflop vs a 15bb stack that I had well covered with AQ vs 88. I flopped trips, he hit the 8 on the river. I then tried a resteal and follow up cbet that didn't work. I ended up going out with about 17bbs when I shoved over the maniac buttons perfunctory raise with a perfect resteal hand 89s, he happened to have a hand ATs and he flopped trips and I was drawing dead on the turn. I changed up my strategy instead of playing a lag small ball style I decided to play power poker with an m <= 10 from the last 30 people in.

It worked very well. I don't know how many times I pushed, it was alot, I got called in three spots. JJ>TT, AK>AJ, AQ>88. I went from being 11/14 to being 2/8 until I lost my AQ vs 88 4 handed. I ran really bad at the final table, I had AQ 2x that saw a flop, folded once, and had to call with tp vs trips for a decent pot. I had 99 2x and had to fold when a tight player called then led into me and when I got called by 2 players and saw an Aqx flop.

This score is HUGE for me. I now have a very solid 3k roll. I started that day with a 1.8k roll which meant I was a couple weeks of running really bad to having to move down to playing nothing higher then $11 mtts. I've scraped my $550 staking myself experiment since I hit this nice score. I'm just going to stick with buy ins up to $33 and maybe play one or two $55 mtts.

I played 8 mtts last night. I cashed in 3 of them, I was so close to a 4 digit score. I finished 60th in the ftp 24/24 for $69, 160/1179 of the stars 50/50 for $83, 17/1013 of the ftp 50/50 for $355. I essentially busted from the ftp 50/50 when I raised AQ 2.5x with 14bbs in mp. I got called by a donkey who kept calling me and I'd have to lay down when my AQ, KQ didn't connect in 2 other pots. The flop was J8x. I over bet the pot ai as vs this guy it was goin in whether he knew it pf or not. The guy calls with JTs. I don't mind his flop call as my hand screams my 2 big cards missed, I just don't understand calling a 2.5x raise with JTs with 13bbs.

One of my friends said I shove with an M of around 10 around the final table, I'm going to rethink my position on this as I like to make standard raises until I get to 12/13 bbs. Maybe it's not so bad if I have a couple of idiots that will call me light. All in all I'm pretty happy with my play, it's so sick that in the ftp 50/50 there were about 9 good opr players and only a few made the final table. Once we got down to 30 players in the ftp 50k I took a stab from the blinds 2x on flops and had to fold, raised KQ, AQ and missed them both, cbet one of the hands had to fold them both. I only won hands that didn't see a flop or I was short and shoved pf.

I made a deal with myself, I'd take $550 of money from out of my roll and use that to pay for half of a $55. My roll is around 2k, so basically it gives me a chance to play 20 of these donk filled 50ks and a shot at a very nice score. Out of 5 50/50s I've cashed in 3, and I finished 13th and 17th in 2 that I cashed. I'm just in need of a bit more luck to make the ft in one of these. Even a 2k score would be a really huge shot to my bank roll.