Hey boys...thought I would share with you my semi-decent performance at last week's Sunday Millions on Poker Stars. I've played this grueling long-ass tourney about 4 or 5 times now and finally cashed on Sunday. It wasn't a huge amount ($300), but it is a start...I am hoping that future performances will only get better. In case you know nothing about the weekly PS Sunday Millions game, I'll tell you. It is a $200 + $15 game with usually 6500 - 7500 players (HUGE FIELD!). The game starts at 4:30 pm on Sunday and from start to finish is about 10-12 hours...if you are still playing in the 12th hour, you don't care that you have been playing for 12 hours because all you can think about is the amount of money you are going to win...first place is usually in the $200,000 range (final table is in 5-digit cash).
PS has a bizzilion qualifiers for the Sunday million (SM) that run all week long. The ones that are easier on the bank roll are the $11 double-shootouts...(with a full field of 100 players) you play 10-handed and have to win that table to move on to the next table where all the winners from the first level square off...usually the top 4 will win a seat and 9 - 5 will win about $35. When I have enough money in my bank roll, I REALLY like the $58 4-handed, 8-player max SNG...that one is sweet and takes less than an hour to play (the DS can take over 2 hours to play).
Anyhow, the 4-handed game is great and as people get eliminated they even out the tables until the final 4 are at the "final table"...and then the top 2 finishers get a seat. Oh and the last Sunday of each month the buy-in is $500+30 for the SM...the qualifying tourneys are a bit more and less seats advance to the SM. Usually there are only about 2500 to this bigger buy-in event and because of that first place pays out nearly the same as the $200 event.Anyhow...at last Sunday’s game there were 7520 players and payout started at 1050. you start at 10,000 in chips and the blinds start at 25/50...it sounds like a lot and that you could just sit there for an hour not doing anything...but you really can't...it gets up there pretty quick (even though blinds go up in 15-minute intervals)...the first hour is crucial to gain some chips.
Anyhow, it was amazing how the play commenced just before the bubble...if I had more chips and more balls (or female equivalent) I'd be raising every hand to steal because nobody wanted to go out being so close to money (which took about 4 hours to get to). I was amazed that I was able to survive as long as I did because I didn't have any cards and nothing that I wanted to attempt to steal with.
I had 3 key hands that kept me in it and actually pushed me up to above average chip stack before we hit the money. Once money hit, people were going all-in every hand as though their chips were made of nuclear waste...it was unreal...the first hand into the money there was a 4-way all-in at my table!
Anyhow, I was fairly confident that I could last until at least the second pay level which would have paid out $450 at 810 players...but...things can change sooooooo fast at the poker table, you are kicked out before you even realize what just happened. I get AQ in middle position and raised 4xbb (to 16,000) and a short stack person moved all-in for an additional 24,000....there was already 26,000 in the pot because of the 10,000 in blind+ante money.......and at this point, the short stacks were moving in with just about anything...plus I had this guy covered (started the hand with over 70,000)...so I called and ran into AK. whaaaaa!!!! whaaaaaa!!!
That dropped me to under 40,000 and the very next hand I had 66...with less than 10BBs I decided to move in...And I would guess that under average circumstances, I would be able to pick up the blind money or even double up...but I ran into QQ and boom...just like that I was out! Went out 860...50 away from the next level which I know I could have easily cruised to. Sometimes I wonder if not getting any cards is really a better than getting decent/semi-decent cards. Anyway, I won't complain...$300 is better than a kick in the ass! - Nahanni
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Great job Nahanni!
Everyone - send me an email on npokerp or any of my emails and tell me your success stories in any tournament or casino play.
I will post it as an article for you!
Same thing if you want to write an article. I will post it or tell you why I can't - like if you make fun of my poker playing ability.
Wait, I would have to post that - it's the truth.
Congratulaions Nahanni!
$300 is nothing to sneeze at. I have heard that it would go a long way in the local ballets.
Good job Nahanni. I agree the $300 is impressive and I also seem to last longer in tourneys when I am not getting what I "think" are good cards.
yes it would fourputt,
like the one you are starring in. ballet a la brokeback mountain. by the way, sorry to hear about your favorite actor dying.
beerhog
Beerhog, I'm shocked!
Just because a man can't leave his house, wears an apron the whole time he is home, can't make even a single poker game and his golf clubs have not seen sunlight in years...doesn't mean he is....
Nevermind
he's not actually in the ballet. he's just a fluffer.
beerhog
Nahanni, let me understand, you've bought in for the eqivalent of 215 dollars times 4 or 5 and made 300 dollars, for a net loss of (560 to 775 dollars) minus 40 to 50 of your waking hours?
Isn’t anonymity great? It gives spineless weasels the courage to spew absurdities for what must be their own amusement. Whoever you are…you like math? Well you better go back to school and get some extra tutoring because your numbers are way off…while you are getting tutored, you should brush up on your reading comprehension skills (Q-U-A-L-I-F-I-E-R-S).
Who is this guy? Another one of those losers that have been begging us for money the last few weeks?
Anyway…enough of that…I have another poker success story that I’d like to share…I recently played a $50+15 tourney at Greek Town and W-O-N the entire thing! $1760!!! I couldn’t believe it! What an amazing rush!
Ok…some background details…GT offers tournaments 3 times per day…go to the link below and get more info. For the one I played we got 3000 in starting chips, the blinds start at 25/50 and they go up every 20 minutes and there were 88 players…the top 10 get paid.
www.greektowncasino.com/Gaming/ PokerRoom/
As it seems to always be the case when I play live tourneys…I wasn’t getting any cards for the first 2 blind levels…I tried to make some moves with some shitty cards hoping to just pull in the blinds (and drag a pot…any pot), but then I’d get re-raised or someone would push all-in and I’d have to let my crappy cards go. I think I won 1 hand in 40 minutes. I was somewhat short-stacked at ~ 2500 in chips with the blinds at 200/400 and then my first “defining moment” hand occurred. I get Ac9c in the BB…the first person to enter the pot made it 3xBB and there were 2 callers before me. I felt that I had to call considering I was getting 5 to 1 for my money and I thought that if I get any piece of that flop (flush draw, straight draw, pair my ace), I was going to push. The flop came down TJK with 2 clubs…I was first to act and pushed…well…so did everybody else! We had a Degree 4-way all-in moment! One person already had the straight with AQ…another person had KJ and another had QJ…if I lose this hand I am out of the tourney. Well…lucky for me, a club hit on the river chipping me up to just over $10,000. I was shaking after that.
Now with some chips it was a little bit easier to play and take a few more chances to steal the blinds…which I did here and there. In one hand I made a HUGE semi-bluff all-in move that had I lost, I probably would have blinded out the next round…I had 2h3h in the BB…the blinds were 300/600 with a 25 ante, and there were a total of 4 people in the pot. The flop comes 4h5h8c…the button bets out 1200…it comes to me and I moved all-in. I barely had him covered. He thought about it for a long time. At first I didn’t want him to call…but the longer he took, the more I wanted him to call…I figured that I was favourite to win with 15 outs and 2 cards to come…even if he had something like A8, I was about 65% to win at that point. Anyhow, he finally folded…he had K8.
By the time the first break hit I had about $18,000. When we came back from break, the blinds were 400/800 with a 50 ante…the dead money alone was worth the steal with 1700 in the pot before anybody calls. A few table changes later and the blinds up to 600/1200 with a 100 ante, I am still in the $18,000 range and I pick up AT on the button…there was 1 or 2 limpers…I raised 4xBB and 1 limper pushed all-in for not too much more…he had 55…and I hit a T on the flop. Now I’m up to over $30K.
The players were dropping out at this point…the blinds and antes were eating everybody up. Just before we merged to the final table I hit a HUGE hand that gave me the chip lead going to the final table. I have KQ in the SB…the blinds are 2000/4000 with 200 ante and I have about $40K in chips. One person is all-in for about 8k total and myself and the BB call. The BB has about $20K left. I thought of popping it again preflop…but since the BB had a decent amount of chips, I didn’t want to risk a call from him and then totally miss the flop and be out. The flop comes KJT…I am first to act and I just sensed something that the BB was going to bet…so I just checked and let him hang himself…he moved all-in immediately and I called immediately…cards flip over and he has K6…I don’t remember what the other all-in had…all I know is that I won the entire pot! That pushed me up to nearly $80K at the final table…the next highest chip stack was around $40K.
Well…having such a huge chip lead was exhilarating! I thought I was going to puke all over the table! I needed 3 chip trays to carry my chips to the final table…it took me about 3 or 4 hands before they were all set up in neat stacks of 20 (because, of course, when I took them out of the chip trays, I knocked them all over because I was so freak’n nervous!!!) Anyhow, I was able to take a few more risks and before we got to heads-up I knocked out 4 or 5 people. At the start of heads-up I had about $160K and my opponent $100K. We battled it out for several hands. The blinds were HUGE…5000/10000 with 600 ante. I raised with more hands than he did and he kept folding his BB to me. On the occasion that he did raise on the flop, I would min re-raise him and he would fold. On the last hand I had about $220K and he had $40K and I was on the button with 6s2s. the flop was AK6 and he pushed all-in…I called immediately…I figured if he had A or K, he would have pushed preflop and if he had me out kicked, so be it…I also had a flush draw. His cards flip over and he has 53. That was it…I won! It was an amazing rush!
Wow! Nice win Nahanni! That had to be a tremendous rush! Way to go! Nice read on the last hand.
Were you at least wearing your "Nik's Poker Palace" golf shirt?
Oh, that's right. We don't have any. But if enough guys (and gal) say they will buy one at cost, I will order them. Good idea?
And no NPP player has to defend their play to anyone, Nahanni. We are all stone cold killers at the tables. Playing against each other helps us beat - well the mopes at Greektown!
Congratulations again!
good job nahanni.
beerhog
Nice win, and I enjoy reading about all the good and bad beats. Arcticblast and myself played with some reeeeal drunks last night at a charity event in Livonia. Neither did well in the tourney but we both won some in the cash game. Arctic had AA in the last hand at 2AM and lots of guys called because it was over. He took it down while I folded my typical 83. They were kicking out guys for beig wasted and rude, and it felt like a good opportunity to make some coin but I got lame cards and stayed just a little better than even. You guys would have been lickin' your chops. It was an open bar w/ good booze from 6 to 1130 so we were all felling no pain. The client who gave me the tix ended up pummeling some dude in the parking lot and then took off! What a night me and Arctic had! I would buy a golf shirt.
Nice win Nahanni.
Yea, nice win.
Ok, it's true I don't like math.
Usually.
But, where does the guy who likes math need english lessons?
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Nahanni, let me understand, you've bought in for the EQUIVALENT of 215 dollars times 4 or 5 and made 300 dollars, for a net loss of (560 to 775 dollars) minus 40 to 50 of your waking hours?
Should "net loss" READ "net equivalent loss" ?
Could someone pleeese let me borrow five dollars and fifty cent so I can paly in the tuseday tournie :)
"In one hand I made a HUGE semi-bluff all-in move that had I lost, I probably would have blinded out the next round…I had 2h3h in the BB…the blinds were 300/600 with a 25 ante, and there were a total of 4 people in the pot. The flop comes 4h5h8c…the button bets out 1200…it comes to me and I moved all-in. I barely had him covered. He thought about it for a long time. At first I didn’t want him to call…but the longer he took, the more I wanted him to call…I figured that I was favourite to win with 15 outs and 2 cards to come…even if he had something like A8, I was about 65% to win at that point. Anyhow, he finally folded…he had K8."
If he had A8 you were a 51.52% favorite to win.
Luckily he wasn't holding 88, 55, 44, 76, or Ah8h.
If he had 7h6h you had 1 out. :(
Fortunately he folded, because you won the tourney with this outcome.
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