Carnival and some poker

So two weeks ago we had what is called "Carnival" at Carnegie Mellon U. It's a shit show for 4-6 days where all you do is drink and party (I say 4-6 because carnival for me starts on Tuesday while the rest of CMU starts carnival on Thursday). Every party had a theme and every theme was awesome. Wednesday we had the 3rd annual Tom Selleck mustache bash (which was pre-themed by ribs and 40s), Thursday was a Luau, Friday started with us at the Pavillion all day (The pavillion is in a park where we killed about 20 kegs) and then went to Acapulco Nights where we had an ice luge which looked like the devil from Acapulco (Taking shots from this thing might have been one of the greatest experiences of my life). Saturday was our 3rd annual Alumni Golf outing followed by Boom Booms (a local bar). All and all it was a great time. It is nice whenever a big academic school like CMU can party like a state school.

Oh Poker...I won another tournament last weekend. It was one of the big daily doubles on Full Tilt. I happen to like all the daily doubles on FTP. The structures are very good and most of the people who play on them are not very good at all. They either play too fast the whole tournament or they play too conservative for too long and they get blinded out. It is hard to balance those two styles in order to get optimal play, but it is something that I have worked very hard on and it seems that my style is paying off in tournaments. On the flip side of that, I think that my cash game skills have deteriorated a bit from playing all these tournaments. Before I go to Vegas this summer, I am going to need to watch a lot of videos and read some NL cash books so I don't get destroyed in cash games at the RIO.

Well that's all for now. Hopefully I can post another win or two before I go back to Cali.

First Blogg EVER!!! Getting 2nd in the FTP Sunday Brawl

So yesterday I entered the Sunday Brawl on Full Tilt with just wanting to cash. I had bubbled a couple times in that tournament and the 750k guarantee on FT, so I was very focused on making the money for this tournament. Once I actually got to the bubble (162 cashed), I kept thinking about what Matt Matros kept saying in his videos, "To increase your EV, you have to keep playing." So without doing anything too reckless, I just kept playing. If I had AQo in the blinds and an obvious steal position player raised, I shoved with 15 BBs. If you don't just keep playing (whether it is the bubble or not), you lose the chance to go deep in the tournament.

So with that said, I ended up having about 10-15 BBs from 800 people left to about 40 people left. With about 40 people left, I went on a heater. Winning about two flips and holding up when i was a 3-2 favorite, 3-1 favorite and even when I was a 4-1 favorite, until I got heads up for the title with SkinnyRicky. He was a very good player and we went heads up for awhile and then I went bust when I shoved after a check raise with a straight draw and he called with top pair and 2nd nut kicker.

I missed and he won, but I took a lot out of this tournament. I have found many areas of my game that need to improve, especially my heads up play. Well that's it, but I hope that my first post wasn't too awful.

PEACE