WatersR

Have been sitting with him awhile. He's been lucky on a few occasions to survive, but doing well now. Been instructive though!Table 1, less than 30 left.

I'm in, as usual. WatersRGood luck...

First hand, in the big blind, AA, I bet the max every street and DNA catches a set on the river

Won a seat in this on Tuesday night. One of the softest MTTs I've ever played. Field of around 1750, 30 seats....cruised most of the way....even suffered some horrible beats.Example:Blinds 1.5k/3.kMy Stack 80k (table chiplead)UTG, dealt AKo, raise to 15k.UTG+1 calls with 15k of his 50k, folds around.Flop: AT3 all clubs.I set him all in and he calls with 94 club for the flopped flush.This guy finished 31st.

Heartbreaking hit. I worked my stack up to 2200, and we have a really crazy player. I picked off one of his attempts to pick up a pot. I raise from late position holding AJ, and he pushes all in after having limped. I'm reasonably sure I have him beat, and probably dominated, so I call -- if I lose I'm left with 1100.He has A8, and picks up a straight on the river.

I'm in, starting at table 185.

I'm out. I had a line on a player that had been raising a lot and folding to reraises. He raised it from 100 to 375, and I came over the top of him for 2000 more, holding AJ in the SB. Usually this is an automatic fold to me, but he was definitely playing excessively aggressive. I had also been pretty tight lately, and he came to the table only after my previous spell of aggression, so I figured he'd give me credit for being tight. Anyway, He had AK and I didn't improve.

Some selective aggression has moved me up to 2325 but I've been way too active. Now I need some real cards because I'm sure someone is itching to look me up soon.Right after posting this, i pick up KK, but my raise to 4xbb gets no action.

first hand back I doubled up a shortstack who had 33 and hit a set against my KQ. down to 1200 :cry:

1835 at the break. No cards to speak of.

Man, my mark busted himself out to someone else. He called my standard preflop raise with KQo, and then called a 120 continuation bet.On the turn I checked to him and he bet out 300 and the SB who had been along the whole way called, so I folded. The river came and he set the SB for her last 300 (which she obviously had to call) -- she had a pair of sevens and he had no pair.The very next hand (which he started with 2000) he went the whole way with AJo and lost to a flush.I hate missing out on opporunities like that guy.

was down to 1000 because someone pushed over the top all in and i laid down a good hand. Fought back to 2000 after pocket sixes turned a straight and then just called down a couple of guys who made continuation bets after preflop raises (in both cases I had the best hand all the way through...)

my table has several very poor players. one of the 3 is gone (to another). The craziest is to my left and has doubled up, so hopefully I'll be able to run a trap at some point.There are A LOT of players minraising.

I'm in, table 63.

We have a weekly homegame which usually goes off 8-11 handed. We start with T1500 (10xT5, 20xT10, 10xT25, 10xT100) .We have been using hourly levels at the following blinds:Level 1 - 5/10 (color up T5 chips)Level 2 - 10/20Level 3 - 20/40Level 4 - 25/50 (race off T10 chips)Level 5 - 50/100Level 6 - 100/200 (race off T25 chips)We generally finish at level 5 or early into level 6 (usually with a deal between the last 2 players), and never raise the blinds beyond 100/200. The blinds are very low in relation to average stack size at all levels, which certainly rewards tight play. I really like