Went and played the DAYTONA fever $40 buy in MTT today and what a day

86 people top 9 pay and I went out 21st

Paid very close attention to everyone at the table for once and it did give me some good info

No paisy stuff today, I raised up hands and kept leading out bets it I felt I was ahead or at least give the illusion. After a while funny things started happening. 2 different time people asked who raised and when they said me, insta folds. Plus many of my raises took pots with many limpers

I would say I won 85% of the hands I was in and amassed a very healthy stack. Well over the 20 M level

The big hand BB (ME) AA UTG+1 pushed 400 blinds upto a 3K raise, folded everyone and I push all in and he calls AA vs TT I hold up and riding high

OR WAS I

during level 4-6 1/2(???) I was on fire. Big slick 3x. I just kept building my stack and then

BAMMMMMMM

to take me to the next level UTG AKo I raise up up BB 3x and seat nexts me pushes all in for 11K everyone folds and I call it

AKo vs A9s (see where this is going)

FLOP ? K ?s TURN ?s RIVER ?s WTF

so this hand hurt my stack big time

I was down to 10K Blinds 500/1K later in MTT some older lady pushed all in 4x going from a stack of 5K to well over 10K 4th all in vs ME (NOW I DONT KNOW THIS WAS PROBABLY STUPID and I was calling not raising so I really F'd myself here but I thought Id have 2 live card)

QTs (ME) vs AQo

Now my stack is down to 3k (NOW IF I WOULDNT OF PULL THE QTs STUPID MOVE 4 hands later I could of fixed this little problem)

LP=KK (ME) 3 earlier raisers and I pushed all in and all called (YES IM GONNA 4x up and be back in this thing(

FLOP AT8 Q 9 RIVER COMES SOME PUSHES ALL IN (all 3 checked it all the way down until river push) I was like F' someone has the JAck and yes to make it worse THE DAY ENDS WITH

KK (ME) vs J4o MY DAY IS OVER (If I hadnt of lost all my chips with QTs callI could of at least force someone out of this pot probably the J4 dude since no had the ace but big lesson, but I dunno if Id of taken the QTs hand I was final table bound easy


This has been some month, I bubbled live, I won a live $75 DJ bounty, and today my game felt more in control that it has, and A LOT of it has to do with people who help my game in these forums.

Today was the most comfortable I have been in a live MTT