So, a friend of mine on ub sent pokerstars customer support an email (motivated by the bad beats he receives consistently on that site- i sympathize 100%) stating:
"Dear Stars: ....i'm getting married in 3 weeks...how about letting me run good for a while as a weedding gift?" Pokerstars customer support actually replies "......can't make promises, but see if we can pull some strings and we'll keep his fingers crossed." Hilarious. gg stars. Genius customer support. Not to mention sounds shady, but sure it was all in good fun.
Monday, I came in 1st in $7500 7:30pm bounty on UB. Its not a big tournament, cashed for 2200$ approximately, but it was the fact that I have not won that tournament in 5 months and I've played it at least 20x since then, if not more. It felt really good to cash. I am excited, tonight I am in the 100k on stars, and same tournament on Ub, and 32k guar on FT...will let you know the results. Also as update, my per diem work unexpectedly picked up last week and this week, so I have been unable to commit to volume that I was doing the week before but that's ok. I am happy with how things are going.
Lastly, a friend of mine from UB who has experienced a tremendous amount of success lately brought up an interesting hand last night for discussion. She is a very good player, and is experimenting, I think, with different plays, to find out what works and what doesn't. The hand played out as follows.
9p.m. 20k guar on UB. She is in middle pos with As9s. Blinds are 30/60, she has approx 3000 chips in her stack. She limps, folds to sb who completes, bb checks. Flop is K x x, with two spades. SB bets minimum (60), bb calls, aand our player raises to 300- because of weak bet and she feels she has 12 outs, if in fact, one of them has K. The sb calls the 300, and bb shoves for a total of 800. Our player just calls the 800, which is 500 on top of her bet. Now the sb reshoves his stack, which after 800 is in, is another 1400 to our player. Our player, after calls 800, has 2200 left in her stack. So if she calls 1400 and loses, she has 800 left, but is severely short stacked. Can she fold? How can this hand be played differently? Thoughts? Opinions? Consequently, our player called and was against a smaller flush draw, and kq for top pair. She missed and was left with 700 something chips. In my opinion, she got crazy odded into this hand and got all caught up, which happens to the best of us. However, I think that it is unecessary to raise with flush draw at this point in tourney, so early. But, some people's tournament strategy is to get big stack right away and those players will play flush draw aggro early. Another thought is sb is one with kq. when there is a raise and call of all in, he really should let go of top pair, and if that happens, now our player wins a big pot with Ace hi. Interesting hand. Let me know what you think.
Lastly, playing two $340 at Borgata this weekend, hopefully I come back with some good results.
More later.
Good money and peace,
Lucky C, and her sidekick Ace. (whose picture i still must publish on here).
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