Whenever I can, I work as an extra in movies,TV Shows and commercials. The payments for these jobs can take up to 4/6 weeks but for one of my jobs, its been about 3 months. This sucks MAJOR balls! I'm running out of money so I decided to withdraw $200 from my PS account.
As soon as I withdrew, I had about $40 left! and 4 tabling $0.01/$0.02 with max buy ins ($20). I had half of my bankroll on the table! That is such bad bankroll management and I do not recommend it but screw it, I didn't have much choice unless I wanted to play less tables. I played my usual game and now my PS bankroll currently sits at $85.
PokerStars MicroMillions Tournaments
March was also a great month for micro stakes tournament grinders. Pokerstars hosted a series of (100) tournaments with small buy-ins but with huge guaranteed prizes. I choose to play in a number of these tournaments even though I hadn't played many tournaments recently.
Prior to the Micromillions (MM), my biggest score in a poker tournament was $20 in a razz tournament (7th) and my highest finish was 3rd in a PLO tournament. These were both on FTP about 2 years ago and were both freerolls. The razz tournament was a WSOP special freeroll and the PLO tournament was a regular freeroll with 7,500 participants.
I initially wanted to play in 57 of these events but ended up playing in only 5. This is because the tournaments I wanted to play in (mostly non-NLH) were running at such awkward times and for the most part, I was sleeping through them!
Micromillions -01: $0.11+R NL Hold'em [6-Max, Turbo, Rebuy Madness], $25K Gtd
I busted out in 1,931 out of 71,420. It was a pretty deep finish. Unfortunately with the extremely tiny buy-in, the payout wasn't as much as I wanted. I received $8.07 for my 1931st place finish! Its pretty terrible for 3-4 hours of playing but hey, its still about 8000% of the buy in.
I think I played pretty solid until my final hand. I had AJo in early position and made my usual 2.5xBB raise. SB 3-Bet me (which he did often). I thought about it for awhile and I wanted to fold but because I hadn't 4-Bet before, I thought that I would get more credit for having a big hand. With this read-dependent fold equity and the fact that we were about even stacks. I decided to 4-Bet to about x2.25~ of their 3-Bet amount. It didn't work, they tanked and decided to shove. I was pot committed and called. They tabled AKo and Bam! Just like that, I was out and had a huge dislike for AJo.
Micromillions -02 $1+R NL Hold'em [3xTurbo]. $75K Gtd (30,372/44,741)
Micromillions -12 $1+R NL Hold'em [3xTurbo]. $75K Gtd (16,511/2,8185)
I'll group these 2 tournaments together because well.... to be honest, I didn't cash and I only remember what happened in one of them although I'm not sure which one.
This hyper aggressive omega class super fish was open shoving every hand! When he busted, he just re-brought and kept re-shoving. This is so hard to play against when you don't pick up any hands. So I waited for a premium hand and for them to give me their stack. I picked up AKo in early position, I made my standard raise and them, like clockwork shoved for 3000 in a pot containing ~100 chips. I instantly called and they showed 59s. They hit a 5 on the river without me hitting anything and just like that, I was out, I was annoyed but hey, its poker and if the fish don't win once in awhile then there wouldn't be any ;)
Micromillions -04 $3.30+R PL Omaha [6xMax]. $25K Gtd (4,433/6,936)
This is the only Omaha tournament I played in. I think I played well... apparently, not well enough. All in all, final hand. I got most of my chips in the pot with AAJ4s and had less than a pot size bet on the flop of T73 rainbow. I shoved and they called with KKQTs, they called and hit a Q on the turn.
Micromillions -34 $5.50 NL Hold'em [Knockout, Turbo, Pro Special]. $25K Gtd (4,875/26,439)
I had a free ticket for this tournament for a small deposit on PS. I think the amount was something like $30 and you get a free ticket for a $5.50 tournament. You received $1 for everybody you knockout except Pros for which you received $50. I never had any pros at my table but I did manage to bust one person. That's it really. I had about 4M on the button with JQo, it was folded around to me so I shoved all in on the SB and BB who both had similar stacks to me. BB Picked up a real hand and called with AKo. Nothing hit, Out. But I was happy with my play.
Micromillions 50K Gtd Freeroll
I didn't realise I qualified for this tournament, heck I didn't even remember they had this promotion. But I got an E-mail from PS and because I had played in at least 5 MM tournaments I got a free ticket to enter this tournament.
I think I played awesome and of course with tournaments, getting lucky in the right spots. I finished in 228/26,500 for a win of $20.50! my highest in any poker tournament! :D
Theres not much to say about the final hand. I lost a coin flip (66>AQo) all in preflop on the previous hand and had about 2BB left. I got it in with A6o and lost to QQ. Not much of a bad beat but it would have been nice if I could've sucked out.
The March Grind
Anyway, back to March. It has been one of the most swing-est months while playing poker. It was pretty sick but I stayed focused and concentrated on the hands. Heres a graph of March
PS also launched Zoom poker. This is similar to FTP's Rush poker. I was kinda addicted to Rush poker, I remember once I lost $50 while trying to get enough Full Tilt Points to achieve their Rush week's silver $50 cash bonus haha..I did manage to persevere though and I did get my money back. Anyway, back to March's winnings.
So now comes the April grind!
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