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F Sundays!  Well, at least this Sunday.  I don't know if I'll ever be able to get over the deep runs that just weren't meant to be.  There really is no good feeling after a tourney you don't win.

The $10 rebuy is probably my favorite tournament because I've won one each on Tilt and Stars.  Today I made a deep run in the 1:00 $10 rebuy on Stars w/ 2500+ players.  I came out of the rebuy period with an ok stack, and was in for the minimum which is always nice.  Then before I knew it I was CL with 4 tables left.  That's kind of what happens when I multitable.  I go on autopilot, just focus on a couple tables and play standard at the others.  Before I know it, there's just a boatload of chips in front of me and I have no idea how they got there. Apparantly I was an absolute cardrack for a solid 2 hrs.  Then boom, I lose AA<JJ for a 70BB pot.  I'm still healthy with 30BB, but all the momentum I had built washed away.  Being on the bigstack would have given me the opportunity to abuse the other players as the money numbers crept higher, but not this time.  The cardracking ended, and with the new CL to my immediate left I tightened it up a bit and played solid poker, but was eventually blinded down to 5 BB by the time the final table bubble rolled around.  It was really frustrating because there weren't even any close spots I could've shoved in the prior 4 or 5 orbits leading to my super shortstack.  I finally woke up with J9o UTG (yeah, woke up) and shipped it in 5 handed only to lose to KTs and I bubble the FT.  Oh well, can't win 'em all.

I also went deep in the nightly 65k on Tilt, only to get coolered with AK<KK with 23 players left for a top 3 stack.  It happens.  Other than that it was a pretty standard Sunday.  Except I had the pleasure of busting Bruce Buffer in the Mulligan.  Wooot, ship the $200 and Donkey T-Shirt!!!

Hand of the Day:
Full Tilt Poker Game #9495025425: $22,500 Guarantee (72337790), Table 63 - 120/240 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:17:17 ET - 2008/12/14
Seat 1: Junior976 (4,815)
Seat 2: LVMaddog61 (11,303)
Seat 3: Lenny and Carl (3,390)
Seat 4: asmileytooa (7,795)
Seat 5: Wilshire72 (1,800), is sitting out
Seat 6: Smoke Tha Zags (11,920)
Seat 7: Gags30 (5,190)
Seat 8: JWeb777 (5,300)
Seat 9: Mad_Ace_Hole (8,066)
Junior976 antes 25
LVMaddog61 antes 25
Lenny and Carl antes 25
asmileytooa antes 25
Wilshire72 antes 25
Smoke Tha Zags antes 25
Gags30 antes 25
JWeb777 antes 25
Mad_Ace_Hole antes 25
Mad_Ace_Hole posts the small blind of 120
Junior976 posts the big blind of 240
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Smoke Tha Zags [Th Tc]
LVMaddog61 calls 240
Lenny and Carl folds
asmileytooa folds
Wilshire72 folds
Smoke Tha Zags raises to 960
Gags30 has 15 seconds left to act
Gags30 raises to 5,165, and is all in
JWeb777 folds
Mad_Ace_Hole folds
Junior976 has 15 seconds left to act
Junior976 folds
LVMaddog61 has 15 seconds left to act
LVMaddog61 folds
Smoke Tha Zags: srsly gags?
Smoke Tha Zags has 15 seconds left to act
Smoke Tha Zags has requested TIME
Smoke Tha Zags folds
Uncalled bet of 4,205 returned to Gags30
Gags30 mucks
Gags30 wins the pot (2,745)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2,745 | Rake 0
Seat 1: Junior976 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: LVMaddog61 folded before the Flop
Seat 3: Lenny and Carl folded before the Flop
Seat 4: asmileytooa folded before the Flop
Seat 5: Wilshire72 folded before the Flop
Seat 6: Smoke Tha Zags folded before the Flop
Seat 7: Gags30 collected (2,745), mucked
Seat 8: JWeb777 (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: Mad_Ace_Hole (small blind) folded before the Flop

LVMaddog was a habitual limper.  Obv I'm raising up TT in position.  Then Gags thinks for about 8-10 seconds, and shoves.  It was a sick spot because I wasn't sure how wide Gags would shove here.  Is he a nit and only shipping JJ+, AK?  or does he look at my iso as wide enough to shove AQs and 99?  If he's a nit, I'm not getting the 2:1 I need to make the call profitable.  But if he's shipping AQs, 99, (throw out TT because of card removal) and the random possibilty of something else (I mean you can't tell what mood your opponents are in online) on me... well my TT is an easy call.  After timebanking down, I ultimately decided that Gags was probably on the tighter side here and folded.  After talking to him after the hand, he said he was shipping TT+, AK in his spot (he had KK this hand)... nice fold imo.

I have nothing to do tomorrow other than some Christmas shopping early.  Look for me at the tables... still not sure if I'm going to play some tourneys or work on my game at the deep cash tables.  Always gotta be studying the game to stay ahead of the curve.

Ok.  Good talk.  I'll see ya out there.
- Scott

P.S. No word on the Marketing or OMIS grades yet.