

This was my busto hand HeadsUp at the end of the Cardschat 6max MTT on Fri.Mar.12th. Lead out with a pot bet on the flop to which I got a call, ez call here on turn obv.
Put in a bunch of hours working (mostly painting) and was really worn out from it. Decided to take Sunday off & had plans to play a bunch of tournaments with highlight being the MiniFtops#10 ($33 buyin I satellited into for $1).
First hour was going well, picking up a few smaller pots, losing a few chips here & there with speculative hands, maintaining my stack size slightly above starting stack (~5,500 chips). Had AA one time with a Utg raise, I 3-bet in MP & got no action (on a table that had players coldcalling raises a ton.... lots of rookies with terrible stats., playing all kinds of marginal garbage hands).
After 1st break I was looking to exploit a few of them and opened a few pots with decent pp's (99, QQ, & JJ)... all of which I had to let go of on the turn.
Woke up with AKo in BB, MP had raised (they NEVER raised... only limping & calling... 'alot')..and a 27bb stack 3bet pretty big in CO. Now at 40bb's I didn't want to flat & didn't want to commit 65% of my stack by iso-shoving and was afraid that the Ls.CallingStation MP raiser might have a big hand (as in real big). So.. I make the uber nitty fold. MP calls & flop comes A88 w 2diamonds. MP bets out POT, CO reraises allin... MP calls with 10d-9d, a 10hi flush draw.. CO has AK and wins a decent pot... (sigh). Hindsight... just get it in there.
Very next hand, still hanging onto my decision from hand prior, I wake up w QQ in SB. Btn (a real over-aggress., over-valuing, wide-calling spewy donk who'd had one big MTT cash to his record) open raises from Btn for 4x, sitting with ~40bb's in SB I over-shove allin (thinking I'm perhaps getting hu with btn.... or maybe 'not thinking' properly.. hindsite... should've 3bet to ~1,200, leaving enough behind for a Pot-sized shove on the flop). BB 'flats' my shove, Btn folds. BB has 'KK' which holds ftw.. and out I go in fairly early levels (actually reminds me ALOT of the last MTT buyin I played at $26 & up, over-shoving w QQ to an eMP raise, getting called by AK & losing.... at least I got it in good then but again should've just 3-bet,...so what if players are flatting most 3-bets after open-raising & you're on a table of loose calling donks).
More painting & repairs lined up for this week so my play will be very limited (again). Taking a crack at a $1,000 freeroll today on Titan (Cardschat)... hoping it'll be a small field and I get a decent payout. If so, I will use most of it for a shot at a bigger buyin on Titan (ie. $50& up).


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