Great Saturday, Lots of Poker

I woke up and went to my grandparents’ house for lunch. I then played some rummy and this game called “casino” with my grandma. I grew up playing a lot of different card games with her as well as a lot of pinochle with our extended family. Anyway, it was great to see my grandparents. They are always so thankful when I come over because, sadly, they do not do too much throughout the day.

After playing a few games with my grandma, I came home and played 6 tourneys. Here’s how they went:

$40 Cake poker satty that I freerolled into- Busted right before the first break.

$5 turbo on Stars- 4th out of 2206 for $661. This was a really good score for me. Sadly, I the chip lead with 4 left. I made what turned out to be a bad call with A10d in the bb after the button pushed all-in with AK. He held. I then was 4th in chips and I pushed with 7 10 and was called by KQ. He won. The $2300 for first would have been nice, but it didn’t happen. While I was focusing on this, I was grinding away at the early daily doubles on full tilt. Amazingly I was close to the money and I did not remember any previous hands.

$5 Daily double A- grinded into the money (216 get paid in each). Was down to 4.5 big blinds when the cutoff min raised. I pushed on the button with KJd and he of course called. He had 89 and the flop was 88X to knock me out. $9 was the payout.

$5 Daily double B- grinded into the money. I do not remember many hands but I patiently worked my way to a 13th place finish for $57. I received $13 for cashing in both after chopping 3% of the jackpot with the other double cashers. I was hoping to ship the best double finish for 2% of the jackpot for $385, but some guy finished 32nd and 67th for an average of 45th. I only averaged 70th.

$11 satty to the Sunday million on Stars- busted early.

$10 rebuy on Cake- I always join these Cake rebuys at the end of the first hour. I buy in and add on every time. So I received 4000 chips (close to average stack with around 25% of the entrants gone [lol at Cake players]) with the blinds at 75/150 for only $20. I have had a lot of success in the past doing this. Others use this strategy on Cake so I like to wait until there is a number divisible by 10 in entrants remaining before I register. This then puts me at a new table with only new entrants as well. So I am only going against guys with 4000 and 5500 (if they rebuy and add on) chips. I won this tourney in April using the same strategy. This strategy paid off once again. I ended up finishing 31st for $50.

I am playing some of the best tournament poker that I have ever played. It helps to have most of dominating hands hold up and to win a flips. So it looks like I invested $49.50 in buy-ins (excluding the fact that I had tourney chips on stars) and I cashed for $790 for a profit of $740. Great day online for me these days…and I wasn’t done with poker yet.

After going for a run and showering, I decided to ride the heater and go play a 10/20 game on one of the card rooms here in Billings. The same regulars were still there that played two years ago. They are all friendly as they asked me where I had been. I walked away after 3 hours up a nice $245. Needless to say, it was a great day of poker!

The USA plays China in basketball tomorrow. I’ll DVR it so I can go to church. They better not disappoint.