PokerStars スーパー Stingy Challenge! Day 1 Part 2

Dec. 31st, 2007:

12:45 I enter another SNG (300+20). One person immediately sits out and seeing this type of strategy makes me furious even though I know it works since these tournaments don't last more than 30-45 minutes. Maybe I'll try it for shits later.

1:25: I won the SNG with the sit-outer in 2nd place for ~1500 chips. I'm now up to 7227

I plan to start 2000+110 SNGs as soon as I can afford them (about 40000 chips) For now, it's time for some ring games.

1:30 Sit down at a 5/10 NL table with 1000 chips. pay the BB and get A5, and check to the river where I bet out 60 in a 4 person pot and pick up with 7s and 5s. Good start

1:48 Raise 10x BB from early position with QdQc and get three callers and a reraiser. Hoping to throw some of them off I reraise all-in, but every single person calls. Great; the flop is 5d3d2d, checked to the turn where its Ks, and the river is Qs!! Nobody has the flush and I win the pot with my only near competition being a large stack holding K7!! So I pick up 5400 chips, which is nice. Not being one to overstay my welcome, I make off with my winnings and a new chipcount of 11272.

I also take the time to register for a freeroll satellite; it's Razz, which is my best poker game (I'm a card counter) - 30-40% of my Tournament Leader Board points from last year were from Razz, and I don't even play it that often.

2:45ish: The Razz tournament starts. I quickly take a dip but in no time I'm up to 1700 in the first level, which is good. My strategy for razz is to only play live hands with three cards under 7; that's a bit tight but if the cards i need aren't represented more often than not I dont even have to pay attention to the hand and I'll win, especially against some of these players who are literally drawing dead and dont realize it.

3:30 After 45 minutes at a table with only one other person playing and having to act first 6/8 times, I finally get moved to another table after keeping the stacks about even at 4k.

4:00 After a dip because of a few reckless players I'm up to ~10000, ranked 67 out of 2806. All I'm doing is playing basic Razz and trying to keep from frustration when I get bad beats (Razz is all about drawing). Since the initial sit-outers are nearly all gone and only about half the field remains, it's time to get it into gear and really only play 6 and under hands, maybe a 7 if it looks live. I'm moved to another table to the left of a stack of 15000 and a 11000 stack! Since Razz strategy isn't exactly passed around like Hold 'Em knowledge, my tight poker policy should pay off and I even have room for a couple of gambles.

4:30 I got moved again to a room where a guy was complaining about being drawn out (It's razz!!!) but my chip stack is still at 10000. I'm still above average though. I keep getting hands like (A2)3-Q-Q-Q.

5:00 I've made no hand but picked up 2000 from blind stealing. I'm a little bit over average stack but I'm in the top 3rd of the field. In that 30 minutes I didnt have a single hand with 3 cards under 8.

5:30: I'm out of the tournament after losing a 6542A to a 6532A T_T

That's about it for today. I might play some tonight but I'm going out for New Years!