Finally won a donkament!!!
by DeuceSeven on 04/06/08
So far this month has been decent. My 2nd session of the month saw me have a pretty disappointing but slightly profitable day. I finished 27-729 in a stars $3 triple shoot out for a measly $10. I bubbled the final table of a ftp $11 finishing 13-162 for $20. I final tabled 1 of the 2 mtts I wanted to final table. I entered a stars $16.50 5/9, pretty excited as I felt I was playing my best, that feeling didn't last too long. With 18bbs utg+1 I raised KK to 2.5bb got 3 bet, I shoved and AK had me drawing dead on the turn for a disapointing 8th place finish for $220.I have to give kudos to full tilt poker, they eliminated their 8/180s that never filled up. $8 mtts are a little lower then what I like to play but it's much better then $5 mtts. What they did was create regular scheduled $8 mtts. I'll get to those later. I feel like I've played my best poker each and every month, aside from one hand I love how I played Friday. I ended up bubbling the money in the ftp $26/32k. I managed to last over 3 hours. After the first hour and a half the best Ace hand I had was AT and the biggest pair I had was 55. Somehow I managed to push bot my way to just out of the money, granted I got it in bad 2x and sucked out.
I managed to make 2 final tables in the aforementioned $8 mtts. One of them had 108 runners and I came to the final table as the 2nd biggest stack with 50bbs. Alot of that came when I raised kq utg+1 at the ft bubble 6 handed (I had been super active) this same guy reraised me all in which was a bit of an over shove, I felt his range was AJ+, 88+, I called mostly because I was getting tired of this asshole 3 betting me pf, so I called and crushed his stack when I hit a Q on the river vs his AK.
At the final table about 7 hands in a player with 70bbs limped in mp, I raise QQ to 4xbbs, player behind me makes it 16bbs and limper cold calls 15bbs cold lol. I of course shove, 3 better calls and cl folds. I lose vs JJ for a 100bb pot when a J hits the flop. I ended up finishing 5th for $65. And finally I took down the 2nd mtt for $330. I managed to take some nasty beats and kept recovering. I got heads up with 10bbs and out chipped about 5 to 1. The very first hand villain limps on the button, I shove 22, hit the 2 on the river to beat his KK. From there on out I think he won maybe 3 pots as I owned his soul and took it down.
Although I had no major cashes, it does wonders to my psyche to win a mtt. I've went over a year since my last victory which was a ub 5.50 for $350. Since then I've made about 12 final tables with 2 seconds, a 4th, and the rest a smattering of 6th-9ths mixed in with some disappointing ft bubbles in some 5 figure guarantee mtts.
I hope I can hit a 4 figure score, I feel a couple of those coming.
