GSOP Event 17 (Main Event)

There it is. My first Major win!

Two days after it still feels some kind of unreal. Although I play the Mid-High Stakes MTTs for about 4 months now, it was my biggest online tournament considering the Buy In so far.

I have improved my game significantly over the last 6 months and its not only luck that I have this awesome run since May.

But in the end you always the need the luck and yes, in this tourney I had it! 

I will post a review of the tourney here which changed my poker life a bit :-)

The tourney started really normal. Starting stack was 10.000 and I was down to about 8k when I won my first all in preflop with AQs against a 18bb repush with 67s.

Then carddead again until the first hand I got lucky. MP opens, I reshove AJo for 13bb and get called by the BTN with AQ. J comes. Up to 20k.

Then I went down to 16k because I lost AK in a 3bet pot against a LAG (Loose Aggressive). 

Now I had 20bb left and was in the BB with KQs. UTG+2 opens and BTN calls. I reshove and get called by AK. My FD appears on the flop and I hit again on the river. Weeee! Up to 32k

Now I won 2 pots with cbets and went up to 45k. After this I open with JJ form the CO and BTN pushes for 18bb. He holds KQo and I hit my J insta on the flop. Up to 63k

After this I defend my BB with AJo and call 2 streets on an Ace high Flop and win the pot. 80k.(BB 1,6k)

Winning 2 repushed against the LAG I went up to 110k. This is the point where I hang for a long time. 

Up to 120k, down to 80k and back again like 4 times. 

Now the BB is already 8k and I have 100k left in the BB. MP pushed with 91k and I have an easy call. He has TT and I hit on the flop.

Up to 206k. Now I made a really close play. Im in the BB with 190k and the SB with 104k minraises to 16k. Because he raise/folded in 2 spots before with a little bit more chips I thought I have enough FE here. and 87s is a great hand if he calls me. So its really close if I have enough FE here, against any other player it would have been an easy fold of course. He snapped with AQo and I hit..

Up to 309k Chips. BB 10k. After I won a pot on the turn with KQo, I opened AQ UTG+1. MP pushs with 12bb. I have to snap. He shows JJ and again I hit!

546k Chips. Already 3 hands later the next big hand. UTG opens, CO pushes his 16bb and I have JJ in the SB. Standard Spot. I go in, UTG folds and CO shows 99 and I hold. Chipleader now!

Now some resteals and small pots. I have 950k. Probably the most interesting hand here.

BTN minraises and I 3bet from the BB with 88. SB 4bets and I 5bet. He calls. Pot already 571k.

I have 700k behind and Villian 1,3kk.

Board of TKK. I bet 180k, he calls. Normally the hand is now lost and finished for me, but the dealer really liked me...

8 on the Turn. 4th nuts. I check, he pushes all in. I call, he shows QJs. Nh. 2kk Chips and CL.

From now on I can abuse the table seen on the fact that soon there will be the FT bubble and the big money.

I win a hand with turned straight against 2pair. KQ vs ATo. Running hot. Up to 2,6kk.

I eliminate another shortie with TT > T9s and we are at the final table. I have 35% of all chips (3,5kk) that are in play. Avg is 1kk.

I can make good pressure on the table and go up to 4kk. 

Then my first hand I lost for a long time. We are 6 left, HJ opens and I 3bet. Get the min 4bet from the BB and call with JTs. Flop comes A65 with FD for me. I go all in and he snaps his AK. He will fold any Pocket here and only call his A. I have FE and the FD. FD doesnt come and I´m down to 2kk.

I can win a flip with AQ against JJ and I´m back to 3,5kk. 5 left. The others bust each other and we are 3 handed all even stacked. 

Then I cant win a hand for the next 100 hands and I´m down to 1,5k. CL 7,5kk. 

I can make it back to 3,5kk and the CL busts the other. We are HU. Im behind 3k to 8k. 

I can win QQ vs ATo as he ships on my 4bet. Now Im in front with 8k. He makes it back to 6k/4k as the follwing had decides the tourney:

I open JTo, he calls. Flop JT4 rainbow. He donks, I minraise. He calls. Turn another 4. I bet 540k, he pushes all in, I snap. He shows KQo. OESD.

River 3. I hold. I WON!!!!

This awkward moment when you see his QK and the 3 on the river. AWESOME!!

Beside this I won a 5k tournament ticket for next sunday with another 500k gtd. Let´s win it again :-)

New Milestone

Hey guys,

it´s been a while since I updated this blog here. I am still having semester holidays (2 weeks left) and was grinding not too bad.



The "new milestone" i am talking about is that yesterday it was the first time I played all majors on all sites!
This is really a big step for an MTT player and I hope I can hold this up forever!

Why I achieved this? Read below!




The luck was also on my side in the important spots. This is the reason why I could finish September 2012 with a profit of 28k$. My best month ever so far.

Although I only got 15k$ for myself and the rest went into my longterm staking its awful.

Beside this, 180s are running not this good. Had the biggest down since I play them, but it is ok and this had to happen some time. 300 BI are the top I hope and now it will go on up again!

Live Poker related I played some small tourneys (<200€) in the Kings Casino but wasn´t running hot. Every tourney I finished pushing in AA or loosing with AA :P

Becasue I only can do this in the semester holidays and if someone joins me, I nearly take every opportunity to do it.

Furthermore I play 2 "big" Live Events the next 2 weeks. One is the Concord Million in Austria and (if I bust there before the finals) I play the GCOP in the Kings Casino.

Hope I dont brick both tournaments!

After this, holidays are over and university stars again. Looking forward to it, seen on the 3 months at home. Awaking at 11am or later everys is not that bad (:P) but you need some real work in your life.

At the end, here is my MTT graph of the last 2 months: