the 11 p.m. never steers me wrong....

well... i played about 200 hands or so at the .10/.25 NL 6 handed game and picked up around $20 bucks. i don't know if there are any real hands of merit in there... someone bluffed at me when i had trip jacks. that was the only big pot. i'm about 450 hands deep and am looking towards 5000 hands and evaluating.



now i decided to play two MTT's after getting home. i played a $5 500 person tournament which i finished 170th or so. i was able to build my stack a little over starting value and picked up QQ... there was a limper with a little less than me in chips and i shoved. at these levels people will call an allin after limping with fours or hands similar. he called off his entire stack with AT. unfortunately he spiked an ace and i was crippled. i'm not sure if this is the correct way to play or not with about 15 BB's. but a standard raise brings me down to 12BB's and i don't want to have to fold to any overcard on the flop if i get check pushed. what do you all think?

the 11 p.m. 10$ buyin was about 179 players. it ended around 3 a.m. i took down first for about $500 dollars. and to be honest i don't know how it happened up until about the final table. for the first time in my MTT career i went to the final table with chips... i was 2/9 but very close to the leader and there were 3 shorties at the table. i didn't manage to eliminate anyone until the 6th player. nothing special to note and that i really don't remember sucking out on anyone. i only made one play of significance where i smooth called a Cutoff raise from the button with KhQh. One of the blinds came along. The cutoff had stolen a lot and i figured i'd learn a little from yesterday and not commit too many chips before the flop. Flop came Ah6h4d. he bet 1/2 pot and i shoved. i really didn't think he had an ace and didn't want to commit his chips without it... and if he did, i at least had the nut flush draw as outs... he folded. the other major hand of note is a blind vs. blind cooler that i got the better of. one of the chip leaders was on my left and 3 bet me preflop 2 other times when i had legit hands. so with 16 people left and in the small blind i woke up with aces.... since he had reraised several times i figured i'd give him a chance to sink himself. he shoved all in over the top of my standard raise and i of course called. my hand held and propelled me to the final table. a few steals and such kept my stack at a good level... i had about 20% of the chips in play. when we got to three handed i got short stacked... i had about 40k in chips with 2k/4k blinds. I got widdled down to 25k and woke up with 99 on the button and won a race.... to get to about 60k... then i worked up to 80k. the player i beat was the shortie at 52k.... i had 99 again in the BB... he made it 12k on the button and i shoved... he snapcalled with aq and i won another race. when we got HU i did my usual HU thing... i worked up to 190k and he had about 60k and 2.5k/5k blinds... he limped on the button and i had Js4c. the flop came AsKs6s. i checked and he bet 11.2k. i thought he definitely would have raised any ace in position and that he maybe had a king or a little PP (pocket pair). i thought i could blow him off the hand so i check shoved. thinking he had to fold and if he didn't i had outs. he called with AJ and i hit my flush on the river.... GG me. First suckout of the day at the best time.