BIG week

This has been a huge week for me pokerwise. Since my last post I have been playing a bunch of 50NL rush. To say things have been going well would be a vast understatement. Over the last week I have played a little over 8700 hands and have been running at over 13bb/100 hands, which comes to almost 600 dollars. That includes a big day yesterday in which I won over 5.5 buy ins in less than an hour (55BB/100 hands for ~1000 hands).

But that wasnt even close to the biggest news of the day. As I was signing on to FT I noticed that there was a super turbo registering in 10 minutes, I decided to register for the 8:10 tourney knowing that I was expected at a party at the gfs at 9. I thought it would be a quick thing and maybe a way to gain a few extra dollars. Well 9 o clock rolls around and Im in the top 10 with 55 people left. I figure, Ill just let myself get blinded down and take a profit of prolly 10-20 dollars. I head to the party and the guests we were expecting havent arrived, so I decide to make my way upstairs to the gf's room (on which I have already dl'ed FT) and log in.

Ive lost some chips but Im still really healthy. Long story short, I play really well and win pretty much all my flips and cruised to the final table (6 handed) as the chip leader. The guests had arrived, but there was no way I was gonna sit out at the final table. Things go well at the FT and I get a couple of KOs and keep my spot at the top end of the leaderboard.

Eventually it gets down to 3 people, the chip leader (155k), me (85k) and the shorty (38k) and I make my first really big suckout. Prior to that, I hadnt really sucked out much, I won some 60-40s but I dont think I won (since it never really arose) a hand in which I was dominated or had an underpair vs overpair. In the hand in question I called the shorty's shove with A9 and he woke up with A10. The board ran out 8 4 3, 4, 8 to chop an extremely crucial pot. A few hands later, after the big stack had chopped down the shorty, I took him out. At the beginning of HU I was at a 180k to 140k deficit. My opponent won a small pot and I was down to a 2-1 chip deficit. At that point, my opponent and I agreed to discuss a deal. We ended up agree to a deal that almost exactly matched the ICM numbers put forth by FT. Before the deal, the winner would get 1225 and 2nd got 870. We agreed to a deal giving my opponent 1100 and me just under 1000.

Needless to say Im extremely happy about the score. Its my biggest cash of my career and is a great way to end an already awesome week of poker. I ran extremely well winning tons of flips and getting big hands when I needed to.

Right now I have just over 3600 in my account, and even though I have over 70 buy ins to 50NL, Im going to continue at that level until I feel absolutely sure I can beat it over a large sample.

To make things even better, I got my scores for the LSAT I took last month and Im pretty happy about them. I was hoping for a little higher score, but I knew it would be very difficult to reach my ideal score. Overall though, Im very happy with my final score and I'm glad all that studying paid off.

Hopefully this great run of luck will keep going.

Good Luck everyone!