Decent Sunday: Deep in $750k, Top 8 in $3k HU.

I satt'd into the $750k again yesterday. Its horrible bankroll management to play a $216 major event on a $3k roll but I try to justify that by saying that the satellite that I played in did fit under proper bankroll management rules.

Last week, I played the $750k and I turned my $14 satellite seat into a ~99th finish and $900 dollars. This week, as the tournament was seating, I told my roommate that the odds of running deep on consecutive weekends were sick and that I wasn't expecting much.

Of course after saying that I promptly run my 3k Starting Stack to 12k by the first break. I've never stacked so many people in my life. Sets crushed pairs. Hell, I'd even somehow manage to get middle pairs to stick it in versus me. It was nice.

I went card-dead around the bubble and was probably playing a bit too tight in my opinion because I just wasn't ever getting any action when I did decide to riase. I made some nice 3-bet shoves to stay affloat and was pretty happy with the way I managed my stack deep in the event whenever I had under 25BBs.

Actually, I take that back, because I busted with a 25BB stack.

I had AKo UTG and had already raised the previous hands and took down the blinds. This time though I get 3bet from someone in MP. (Later I find out its a 2+2er) So, after much much deliberation, I decide to shove it in. He snapcalls with AA and I can't catch up. I made $500 bucks.

I think this hand finally made me understand the difference between +cEV (positive chip expected value) and +$EV (positive money expected value). My 4bet might be the correct play there, but when you factor in that just 200 people separate me and life-changing money, I actually think that makes this AK a fold rather than the 4-bet shove I decided to go with. Interesting concept.

Anyways, it was a decent Sunday. Actually got 2 seats to the $750k so I have an extra $216 TDs waiting for me to use. I may break them up to use in my regular weekday tournaments or I may just save it and use it for the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). Speaking of the FTOPS, I already qualified for Event #1, which is sometime in early November. I may use the $216 TDs I have now for other Event #19 which I believe is also $216.

Yesterday I also played in a fun $3k Gtd HU Shoot-Out. It was a $24 buy-in and since I'm trying to put in as much volume as possible per day, I decided to play it. I generally am horrible HU but I'm really proud of how I played. I won my first 4 matches and made it into the round of 8, where I finally was eliminated and took $200-something for me efforts. I had a lot of fun playing it though so I think I'm gonna start mixing in more of those.

So all in all I think I made like a few hundo yesterday. Meh. I'll take that for a Sunday.

I read a post by Bond18 about grinding and it really inspired me to just play as much as possible. Yeah, playing 8 tables can get really frustrating, but as a poker player I've just gotta step my game up and get that done. I have to be able to just grind out dozens of tournaments per week.

Anyways, this got a lot longer than I'd meant for it to be. Thanks for reading.