Revisiting the Sunday Million on Riverstars...

In broad strokes, I’ve blown through the earlier resistance level I mentioned in my last post, and am now sitting about $800 above that point. Not bad for a week’s worth of work. Most notably, the first 12 sessions since starting the analysis I referred to in that prior post were positive EV. I ran extremely poorly one day, with an actual result that was more than five buy-ins below EV… but that’s going to happen. You can only control what you can control.

I also cashed in my second Sunday Million ever, although it was a pretty strange affair. During the early stages of the tournament, with everyone still holding a full stack of around $10K, some clown in early position literally open-shoved his entire stack… and there I am sitting behind with pocket cowboys. I mean, wtf?

I thought to myself, there’s no way anybody is going to open-shove with pocket aces while everybody still has an M of over 30. So I called. And yes, he had pocket aces. Fortunately, I spiked a king on the flop. In the immortal words of Forrest Gump, that’s all there is to say about that.

I played fairly conservatively until the bubble, getting myself comfortably in the money after knocking out some Brazilian pro with AKs vs. her AQ. Thereafter, I ran pretty card dead, stealing a few pots when necessary but ultimately beginning to succumb to the increasing blind levels. My best opportunity to make a stand came when I held 88 in the cutoff, but I folded in light of an early position raise to $15K from a short stack that should have pushed (I’m pretty sure he wanted action, and I didn’t want to oblige a premium pair). Fortunately, I was able to push shortly thereafter with pocket 7s, and was called by AQ. The flop was ugly, coming AQx – but I spiked a 7 on the river to put my stack back over $100K. A few hands later, I found pocket aces in early position, raised to $15K and was met with a $50K shove from pocket ducks. He spiked a 2 on the river, putting me back in trouble territory. A few hands later, I pushed with AT and was called by a shorter stack with K5, and yes… he spiked a 5 on the river. Then on life support, I pushed my remaining $18K with pocket tens, and was called by the big blind with pocket kings. I spiked a ten on the flop; he then spiked a king on the turn. Keep in mind, these hands were all played in a span of about 5 minutes. Yeah, I’m not a conspiracy theorist; I can’t be because I win money… but there really is a reason the site is sometimes affectionately referred to as Riverstars lol…

Current Bankroll: $16,671.06
Month To Date: 78,215 hands; up $1,309.05; 1.67 bb/100
Year to Date: 213,737 hands; up $3,500.30; 1.64 bb/100