Sunday Slouch

Yesterday was a pretty disappointing day. Nate played the $1500 PLHE WSOP event, and I wanted to play the two big Main Event satellites on Stars + the Sunday Million before heading to the strip.

I drove Meyvis to the Rio around 10am, then ran some errands to get back just in time for the 500fpp sat (which awarded 5 ME seats) at 11:30. I pulled up the window for the 10kfpp sat, which awarded 9 ME seats and started an hour later, but somehow distracted myself and forgot to register for it. I was PISSED.

Matt was up too, so we both played the Million and a $50+5 freezeout together. He's a much more serious tournament player than I am, and I got some great advice from him throughout my run in both tourneys in exchange for letting him watch me play 5/10. I pulled up two tables of 3/6 and 3 or 4 tables of 5/10 to play concurrently with the Mil.

Strangely enough, PokerStars' server crapped out or something about 10min into the Mil, which caused mass disconnections from almost everyone at all of my tables -- ring games included. This lasted at least 20 minutes, and when the tournament resumed we had already essentially skipped the entire 50/100 level. I was very disappointed that PS didn't either restart the tourney or at least pause the tournament clock during this time. It is a rare occasion for Stars' support or their software to piss me off; server crashes happen, but the way in which events unfolded yesterday (and their lack of an appropriate response to the issue at hand) was utterly unacceptable.

I ended up busting about 2hrs into the 500fpp sat, but I picked up some cards and made a few nice plays in both the $50 MTT and the Mil. Unfortunately, I made an amateur-ish shove from MP with an ~8.5BB stack in the $50 and busted to AQ on the bubble, but I cleared the Million bubble with a slightly below-avg stack. My table position and relative stack size (players to my right had push/fold stacks so I couldn't resteal) in this tourney were pretty bad for the table I was at, so I couldn't really do anything besides wait for a good hand for quite awhile. I eventually lost a coinflip with AK to JJ to finish about 650th for ~$450. UTG used almost his entire clock before calling with JJ -- Matt thinks it should have been an easy call for him and couldn't believe how long the guy took before making the call. 4.5hrs down the drain, bleh.

Some of the 5/10 games were unbelievably soft during this time -- one of my tables featured two passive donkeys playing about 50/11 for a couple of hours, and another had a 44/6 fish and another awesome donator who played an incredible 78/2 game for >200 hands before busting! I played ok for the session, could have (and should have) been focusing more to play better, and my results reflected this by finishing up less than a buyin at each game. Granted, I did lose a ~$2.3k pot as a 60/40 favorite allin on the flop, but that's some pretty standard variance which comes with the territory.

After that, I went upstairs to take a much-needed nap (I was still up from the day before) until 10 or 11pm before going to meet Nate and Ben at the Wynn. I woke up after about 5 hours but was still very tired, so I decided to just sleep through the night instead of driving to the strip to play tired poker (which is often losing poker).

All in all, I was up on the day (which is nice), but I felt like I missed an opportunity to have a really big winning day by not going to sleep the night before. This would have allowed me to make it to the strip to enjoy a few juicy games at the Wynn. Hopefully today will work out better for me.