First week of school and some poker

Well, the first week of school went fairly well. It is nice to have some new classes. Hopefully I will be interested in them for the whole semester instead of just the first couple of weeks like last semester. I like my schedule because I do not have any night classes and I don't have class until 1 pm on Fridays. So that is pretty nice.

Tonight I decided to play some poker. My roommate and I played in a $5 double stack, 90 person multi tourney on full tilt. I was 3 tabling 10/20 and 15/30 while playing that tourney. I was grinding away on the cash games when I reached the first break of the tourney. I then realized that I hadn't even won a hand yet. I was just under 2k in chips and we started at 3K. By the next break, I was chip leader in the tourney and had almost double the stack as the second place guy. I didn't even steal any blinds. I just played my big hands and got action from at least one or two guys on each. At this point, I was still just focusing on the cash games and just playing good hands in the tourney. All of a sudden, we were down to the final 15 players and I decided to close all my cash games except for one 10/20 HU game that was going well. As I was pwning this guy heads up 10/20, I played the final table. I knocked out 6 of the 7 players at the final table before getting HU with the last guy. I had a 4:1 chip advantage and not surprisingly, I blew it and took second. The main hand I remember was when we got it all in preflop when I had 200K and he had 50K. My 66 lost to his A9 on a XXXAX board. From there I just got pwned. Luckily we were only playing for like an extra $50. I ended up cashing in a nice $72.50 from my 2nd place finish and a good $1500 from the cash games (about $1000 of it came from this one guy heads up). So a pretty good night pokerwise for me.

Exciting note: My dad is driving down here for the week to watch three of my basketball games. He should be getting here sometime before my game this afternoon. It will be good to spend some time with him. Maybe I'll have him do some of my homework so he won't get bored staying here in Seward for a week :)

Tourney

I decided to play in a tourney tonight. It was the 30K guaranteed, $100+9 buy in, 6 person table deep stack tourney on Full Tilt. This was my first 6 person table tourney that I have ever played in and I really enjoyed it. I started off really strong when I was dealt AA in the bb. I ended up getting all in preflop against KK and doubled up. Another guy laid down QQ preflop that hand which is crazy, especially in a 6 handed game. I was in the top 10 in chips the whole first hour. Then I got nothing going in the second hour though I was chip leader at my table the whole time. I ended up busting near the end of the 3rd hour just outside the money. I probably spent only 20 minutes in the whole tourney not as the chip leader of my table. However, my last table had a bunch of big stacks and there was a ton of action. A few suspect plays by me lead to my losing of the chip lead, before I had to start pushing. I ended up 62nd out of 408 people, which is nothing to be proud of, but I thought I would write some poker stuff today.

I have two basketball practices today before we head to Sioux City, Iowa for a game on Saturday. Then school starts back up again on Monday. uggh!

Bad choice of words

I want to apologize for the choice of words in my last post. I shouldn't have used the word "freeroll." I just meant that it is nice to know for a fact that I will be in heaven after death and that I do not have to worry about that. However, I still have a lot to accomplish on earth as far as witnessing my faith to others and helping out people who are less fortunate than me. As a Christian, I try to do good things because God commands it, not to get to heaven. I can't say that I am a Christian and then not act like one. Anyway, I apologize for using the word "freeroll" because it sounds like I am just coasting through life, doing whatever (good or bad) I want to do. That is definitely incorrect.

I have been playing some cash games here and there since that last tourney. There have been a lot of ups and downs. I have been about even since the tourney.

I have a big game tonight against Hastings College that will hopefully go well. Wish me luck. Thanks.