Mookie

Last night was a fun time. Took down the $10 Mookie blogger for my 2nd win in the Blogger Aussie Millions Freeroll....Challenge? Think that's the full name. Either way, lots of cool people Ive met along the way.

To start off, a few things. Jax something and I got in a little scuff last night. Just so everyone knows, Im roughly 6-15 deep by the time 11PM rolls around. How big of a douchebag I am depends on what Im 6-15 deep in at the time. He made a couple questionable shoves, I made a couple calls and we had a bit of an e-scuffle. Lucky for him, cuz Im pretty badass in real life (not really). No hard feelings. Either way, Im always down for HU for lives.

Moving on. I think most bloggers hate me. Understandable. I haven't played in these things before the Aussie freeroll so Im sure people feel like Lucko is bringing in his ringer friends to do his dirty work (get lots of seats filled). That's really not the case. I've had a ~blog for around 2 years now. The problem with my ~blogs is that they never last long. I have a super short attention span for poker. I'll start a cash game blog where I blog about 5/10-10/20 NL. I'll give that a ride for a bit, go on a bad downswing and then get sick of cash games. Delete that blog, move on to tourney blog. Rinse and repeat. This is probably my 6th blog or so. Ive been a blogger for a long time now, just havent really gotten into it as much as Sucko who everyone adores for his obvious dashing good looks and witty charm.

Last night started with me at a table with a bunch of unknowns. As Im sure everyone who has played against me knows, I really can't find anything but the raise button most of the time. I blame this on alcohol and a rough childhood. Regardless, it's fun and Im pretty good at it I must say. I lost about half my stack maybe 20 minutes into the thing, mostly from betting out on missed flops and getting min raised and then having to fold. For those that don't know me, I have a rule in tourneys that I absolutely live by 100%. If you at any point in a tourney raise me 3 times, we are getting all in, I don't give a fuck what I have. SO, anyone who wants my chips, bluff me twice then have the nuts the third time, you will get my stack (barring the 74% chance that I suckout). So anyway, can't remember his name right now, but the guy min raised me twice on a flop, once when he had position and once when he c/r me. The entire table seemed to follow suit, so I started getting a little quieter than I normally like. The third time said min raiser did this I decided to shove my A high on him with a 9 8 Q flop or something. I had AT. He had a set of 8's. Im a fav here. I of course hit my 87% shot on the turn and the table goes ballistic. One guy was evidently rubbing his eyes in disbelief. Im not 100% sure about this, but he said it in the chatbox and I don't have any reason to suspect he may be lying.

Well, I built up my stack after this from just raw aggression. The thing about my aggression tho, is that I always seem to have a hand at the right time when things are working well. Of course not every tourney works out perfectly, but it sure is fun when it does. I basically just raised a lot of pots that went uncontested. I got contested a few times by Jax and then ended up busting him in the end on a race. I came into the FT with a 2:1 CL and never looked back. I tried picking my spots a bit better since the FT players seemed overall to be pretty solid players. I faced Loretta HU. I have to admit, this guy has game. It was a tougher match than I expected and he actually took the CL from me at one point. I tried to stay aggressive, but at the same time wanted to avoid his constant prf shoves. I got my hand caught in the cookie jar a few times, but fortunately for me I finally shoved him with Q high when he had 10 BB and my Q high held against his A2. I was roughly a 76% fav there. Evidently the first half of the blogger challenge is over according to Lucko in IM 5 minutes ago. Im looking forward to playing in the 2nd half and hopefully I can pull off the overall leaderboard win for that time period. GL to all.