Flying up to Reno from Vegas, for my first trip there, and my first Heartland was fun. I loved being near the mountains in Reno - a reminder of how beautiful Tahoe (next door) is.
Poker went fabulously, I played 2 130 dollar satellites and won one, which put me in a 500 dollar satellite which i won easily (OMG satties are such gr eat value - from the 'i only play QQ+ guys that get blinded out' to the people who limp-call pre and then fold flops with 8BB. to people who won't call shoves with AJ (i figured i was racing - yeah, right!)
I was basically card dead in the main - which can be good - because i can't spew off chips will silly steals.... finally some old guy put all his dough in with AQ when I had QQ (there was also a TT in there)... all of a sudden we are in the money....
sadly, at the final table, with 55k in sight, the eventual winner - quite the worst player i've ever seen - had the following action to him.... all in (from 8 BB stack), all in (from 15 BB stack - me) and he had J9s... he was covered by bigger stack... ' well this is my lucky hand' - i call. board K 8 4, turn Q, river T.... I'm crippled down to 3 BB and run into QQ three hands later. still Im 7k better off... had i held up, i would have been chip leader with 5 left and would have run them over...
after a nice year-end break with some excellent online success, i headed out to the circuit in Caesars... to cut it very short, i limped onto the final table 10th in chips but managed second for 25k.
two days later, i was deep in a deep stack.... one of the most aggro donkeys i've ever seen was chip leader with 1/3 of chips with 20 left. he is on my left on button, i pick up 77, he 3 bets (like every hand), i jam and a) he has AK (how someone who is 3 betting every hand has ak now), and gets there....
still another 1200 bucks... my backer very very happy...
don't feel i ran that super well.... bounced out of one tournament (the 1600) when set was run down by draw, and out of another when AA was cracked by AA...
I did play my socks off - and i really am becoming a strong live player... people (pros) tell me that.... lets keep it up...
however, bad news is my health practices deteriorated in dec, jan and feb - i finally hit rock bottom this monday - bought an e-cigarette, got back on the various anti-psychotics (just kidding ADD) i'm supposed to take, got a new CEO-type for Healthy Poker, and finished 2012 goals - which include losing this 10kilos and winning 500k at poker...
my other work (university teaching) has recently collapsed - so for right now - unless i go back into the business world, poker is it....
better be healthy then, and keep running ok....
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