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Howdy campers, since I last wrote there's been a bunch of crazy shenanigans and happenings, some of which are good and some of which are quite horrible. The main thing that happened is I pretty much went busto. I turned my $1k~ish online roll into $300 in like a week with a combination of running bad and playing well over my BR. So in order to teach myself a lesson I withdrew $300 USD (which used to be like A$400 but is now like... A$305) and it came to me from freaking click2pay in Euros so it's going to take like a month to clear in my bank account. So I get to enjoy the glories of being busto... which is somewhat humbling after being quite RObusto all year.

So anyway. Here I am deciding to Ferguson it and try to get somewhat of a roll back. I freerolled my way into Tuesday night's NPL $15 deepstack at the Aaron because I drove Benny (the TD) to the event, and managed a solid 2nd. I had enough chips at headsup not to chop because we were deep enough and the other player Adam, although a solid pub poker player, probably had a disadvantage against an aggressive player like me. He began to get visibly annoyed with my button raises immediately and as soon as I made my standard raise with 77, he came over the top immediately and I called and I had to win the race with QJ and he spiked that nasty ol' J bomb on the turn. So that was 2nd for a mere $110, not bad for a freeroll though imo.

The next night (last night) I played the Oxford in Bathurst with most of the Hats playing as well. Fairly early on I took a comfortable chiplead against Teddy when he overplayed his Ks9s on a KhQc8s flop against my KdKc. I grew my stack with my usual style of medium pot poker (revolutionary, I know) and after getting quite lucky in a 30k pot when I shoved AcKs on a board of 6c8c9c against two red 9s I made it to the final table again with quite a solid stack.

The shorties dropped off and I made my one bad play of the night with 8c9c. It folded to me in MP and I came in for a raise to 3k when blinds were 500/1k. It folded to the BB who was a very poor player from what I had seen and he flat called. (His previous final table actions were minraising twice, once with A5os and calling a shove of John a solid player who tabled QQ) and once with something that he didn't show.

The flop is beautiful, or so I think, when it comes 7sTc4c giving me the OESD and flush draw. Obviously a great flop to move in over the top of whatever he bets. But stupidly, he just shoves all his chips in the middle for like 17k into a 7k pot. I had around 21k left so this would cripple me but I was just so annoyed that he unknowingly made the best move against my massive draw that I called him. He tabled 9sTs for top pair and doing the pokerstove equities just now I see that I was actually ahead (I thought I might have been a slight underdog).

Board: 4c 7s Tc
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 46.566% 45.76% 00.81% 453 8.00 { Ts9s }
Hand 1: 53.434% 52.63% 00.81% 521 8.00 { 9c8c }

Anyway, so maybe it wasn't so bad. So I had monster chips for a while, and I started getting played back on when I did my 3x so I moved it down to 2.5x opens and eventually just called a guy with JTos when he shoved over me when I button raised if only to let the table know I wasn't just going to raise/fold to their gay little shoves anymore. He had AK and won the flip but I didn't get shoved on quite as much after that.

I was down to the felt after one hand against a noob who once again outplayed me without knowing how or why. I had Kc7s in the BB and it folded to him 5 handed and he limped in. I decided to check since I knew he wasn't in the folding mood preflop. The board runs out AdJd8d and it goes check check. The turn pairs the J and he checks and I bet 10k, half his remaining stack. He flat calls and pretty much I am screwed. The river is the 8c making the board AJJ88 and I am of course playing the board. He thinks and pushes his last 10k into the pot and I actually have to tank. I don't see him with a flush or a J here very often and I don't want to be bluffed off a chop pot which is like 65k for 10k. I figure his range has an 8 here around 30% of the time and the other 70% is a hand like mine that became the board when the river dropped. I'll have 33k left if I fold and 23k left if I call with blinds at 3k/6k. Being that these guys don't really understand odds I figure I can probably shove my stack back to healthiness if I call, so I call praying to chop. He of course shows me some filthy 8 like 78os and rakes in a nice pot and after paying the SB next hand I was sitting on a meager 20k.

I shovebot my way back up to around 44k and I take a flop in the SB 4 handed with 7d9d. The flop is 78J. I immediately just shove into 3 runners and the BB folds and noob calls. I figure I'm beat but he tables AsTc? So I'm dodging a 9 or an Ace and the board turns a Q and rivers the T, and Benny goes to push the board towards noob before I point out my straight.

Anyway, we eventually get headsup, noob and I, and 2nd hand in its all over. He has me outchipped, limps on the button and I look at A4os on the BB and decide to raise, realise I can't raise anything other than all in effectively so I just shove. He calls pretty quickly with Kd4d and spikes the old K, winning the match and giving me my second consecutive second place in a row. But I did make $200 in the last two nights so that's something to be positive about definitely, and lets see how I can Ferguson my way to mega cash in the near future :D.

Peace

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