PokerStars Micro Millions

[matt_897]

Starts tomorrow morning, good luck all, feel free to post stories here. I'll play Event 3 tomorrow

 

[Theseventhhamster]

I played the tourney that started 12:30AM and fell asleep a bit before the bubble heavily drunk/baked and woke up still alive 2000 players later. I was down to 3 BB though and lost with A8.

 

[Glenno23]

Playing Event 18 which starts in 20

anyone else in for it?

 

[Theseventhhamster]

I'll probably go with #22, #23 and maybe 20.

 

[Goodo73]

Played #16 ($2.20 NLHE) earlier tonight.

 

[Glenno23]

I used some FPP and won a ticket into the 4 max event at 9:30 WA time

Bombed out in Event 18 witha couple of dumb plays. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Glenno23]

Out with this hand. Blind V Blind

PokerStars Hand #95636304898: Tournament #2013004019, $4.00+$0.40 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (125/250) - 2013/03/16 11:28:13 ET
Table '2013004019 365' 4-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Drewgle (9211 in chips)
Seat 2: ds329 (19716 in chips)
Seat 3: WHINNETOU (2010 in chips)
Seat 4: Evolved23 (4063 in chips)
Drewgle: posts the ante 30
ds329: posts the ante 30
WHINNETOU: posts the ante 30
Evolved23: posts the ante 30
Evolved23: posts small blind 125
Drewgle: posts big blind 250
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Evolved23 [9c 7d]
ds329: folds
WHINNETOU: folds
Evolved23: calls 125
Drewgle: checks
*** FLOP *** [8h Tc As]
Evolved23: checks
Drewgle: checks
*** TURN *** [8h Tc As] [Jd]
Evolved23: bets 385
Drewgle: raises 865 to 1250
Evolved23: raises 2533 to 3783 and is all-in
Drewgle: calls 2533
*** RIVER *** [8h Tc As Jd] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Evolved23: shows [9c 7d] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
Drewgle: shows [Qh 9d] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
Drewgle collected 8186 from pot
Evolved23 finished the tournament in 5853rd place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 8186 | Rake 0
Board [8h Tc As Jd 2s]
Seat 1: Drewgle (big blind) showed [Qh 9d] and won (8186) with a straight, Eight to Queen
Seat 2: ds329 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: WHINNETOU (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Evolved23 (small blind) showed [9c 7d] and lost with a straight, Seven to Jack

 

[Theseventhhamster]

Started playing #23 the $11 knockout after it had been running 90 minutes. Just got my first $5.25 knockout bounty correctly reading a bluff from a small stack. 30674 entries, 11562 left, 3960 players get paid.

 

[Glenno23]

Just finished 35th/ 10439 runners in Event 61

Not bad considering i was down to half a blind at the 3.5/7K level after my QQ was cracked by AJ, after i turned a set. He hit runner runner for the 4 card straight

Got unlucky with about 70 odd left with my 10 10 getting rivered by AK, woulda had over a mil if he didn't hit an A or K

 

[matt_897]

Main event tomorrow morning. About 6ish our time

 

[Happy Daze]

Playing the ME, halved my stack in my 3rd hand running into quads.

 

[Goodo73]

How many runners in the ME? I saw last night they already had over 8,000 registered.

 

[Happy Daze]

A tick over 68k.

Am chipped down, on a surprisingly tough table for one of these things.

 

[matt_897]

I busted out very quickly after late regging, AQhh < AKo.

 

[Happy Daze]

Almost ITM, played 13 hands since the break. Absurdly slow. Live would be faster. Still massively chipped down, around 10 BB; very hard at this pace.

 

[Happy Daze]

Got about 25BB, slightly above average, long way from treasure island.

 

[Happy Daze]

Got ~ 40 BB. Play is quite loose.

 

[Happy Daze]

About 200k below average with ~ 1 mill.

 

[Happy Daze]

Am out, AA crushed by QQ, AIPF, rivered a Q.

Would have put me top 30 in chips with ~ 300 players left.

 

[Happy Daze]

What made it worse was it was a Greek. As poker players I hate them.

 

[Happy Daze]

Railing the guy who busted me, has got it in behind numerous times and donked out. Was down to 2BB, now over 40 BB and well entrenched in the top 5. FML.

 

[matt_897]

Ouch, good effort to get that far. But that sort of result can be incredibly tilting

 

[Happy Daze]

I have a hand that I will post in the HH thread, just a question about.

 

[Happy Daze]

Ouch, good effort to get that far. But that sort of result can be incredibly tilting

Yeah, TBH I have had worse beats; I don't really play that many tournies, and I've never really had a "run like the sun" event in any of those majors. Variance is part of the game, and if you don't play that many tournies like myself you have to accept that its effect is going to be a lot larger because of the small sample size in terms of number of tournies played. In other words I've had some pretty sick bustouts at deepish/very deep stages of tournies but just don't play enough of them to overcome the bad luck that should even itself out over time.

Was an interesting tourney, by and large the play was pretty average overall.....a lot of players got caught up in 4 and 5 bet bluffing at early/mid stages of the tourney and it really doesn't mean much in a $22 BI event at those early pay jumps - I think more success to be had with it when the pay jumps are much larger and the money decently signficant. There were other things to note but yeah the "more active" players seemed to stack themselves out of deeper runs on the tables I was on.

 

[Goodo73]

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/micro-millions/

The 5th installment of this series will run from July 19-29 (AEST).

Event 98 is the $22 NLH Main Event, which has guarantees of a $1M prize pool and $150K+ to 1st. Of course it's early on a Monday morning here in the eastern states, so for those of us with regular day jobs, that's not ideal. Better work on my fake cough I guess.