Happy Birthday from Lee Jones????

Well today is my birthday, and I am officially 21. I guess I got my birthday present from Lee Jones because I was able to win my biggest tourney so far.

I played a lot of tourney's today, and all week, and it was going really really badly with not a single final table. We that changed in the $11 rebuy 35k garanteed. It started with just under 1400 people, and I was able to take it down. I have to say it felt really good, to finally win a tourney.

The heads up match was very huge, as it was a difference of 6k. The icing on the cake was when I got to heads up the guy wanted to chop. I had about 4.5 million, and he had about 3.5 million. He wanted to chop 9k each, which was definitely out of the question because he sucked, and I had a chip lead. I said give me 10.5k and I might do it. Then his fans in the chat say I'm greedy and there is no way I'm winning now. So we decided to play it out. Right away he just starting killing me. Every hand I was missing, continuation betting, and raising, and he just kept pushing. He must have been hitting like crazy because he was so tight during the ft up until this point. I was deff. making a living off his bb. Anyway he ends up getting me down to 1.3m, and he's up to like 6.7m. Then obviously his fans in the chat are going nuts saying I'm a moron ext, and then he goes, you want 7K as a chop? I just laughed and was still feeling ok.
Here are a couple of the hands that I saved that were really important:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151398 - just a standard float here. I have been doing this in the bb a lot lately when it folds to the sb and he raises. It has been working really well. It's very hard for them to fire twice on a bluff, and I pick it up all the time. It also gives them the image don't mess with his bb, which is always very important.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151399 - just an example of how calling re-shoves from the blinds when you have the correct odds is important. I was getting 2/1 odds, and I had been raising a lot, so his range is wider. Obviously people are more likely to shove with hands that I am dominating, and apparently also with 10s5s.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151401 - this was a really big hand for me. This is a perfect example that I explained in my last blog about playing for the win, and having the ability to gamble. I really thought I had his range beat here, as he was fairly short. It was a lot of my stack however so it was still a decision. In the end I went with my read, and it was right, and I got a much needed hold job.

After this hand, I started to get called a lot pree flop, and then they would shove the flop almost every time, and I was not hitting anything. It started to kill my stack, and with 15 bb's. I just started shoving pree flop so that they couldn't stop and go me every hand. So I built it back up doing this for a bit, and then things started to go my way.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151407 - This guy had my number all night up until this point. I finally got him in a hand. He obviously had nothing, because he was committed to call. Probably AQ.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151408 - whoops.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151409 - this is a suspect call, but I really thought he was making a move. This hand would have made me huge at the time, and I would have been running away with the tourney. But it was back to grinding after this hand.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151410 - this guy insta snap called, and I got a nice hold job, to put me right back in it.

After this hand I just starting abusing the blinds. Stealing like crazy, and building my stack nicely.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151413 - I never really know what it means when someone does this. When I think about it though, a small pair makes a lot of sense. I wasn't really sure what to do at the time, but after thinking about it for a while, call seemed like the best option.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151415 - was committed to call, and obv 9 high is good.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151416 - easy call, nice hold job

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151417 - he had been shoving literally every other hand, and then this happens.

I didn't get to a show down until heads up from this point. So here is some of the chat from the heads up, starting when I was losing, until I started my come back.

crackhAAd said, "i gave u every chance"

JustAplayer2 [observer] said, "there he goes"

jbird75 [observer] said, "give him 10.5"

btb&m [observer] said, "keep talking chit crack"

fishbones11 said, "looooooooooool"

potFnatte [observer] said, "lol"

JustAplayer2 [observer] said, "don't chop crack.. take the greedy ******* down"

jbird75 [observer] said, "gg fish"

JustAplayer2 [observer] said, "the fish ship is sicking fast"

crackhAAd said, "u want 7k?"

fishbones11 said, "lol, smd"

crackhAAd said, "6500?"

JustAplayer2 [observer] said, "don't give him anything.. he was greedy"

JustAplayer2 [observer] said, "give fish 4k"

Then I started to hit some hands, and make better timed bluffs. They shut up in a hurry

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151422 - this was by far the biggest hand of the tournament. He had not been playing top pair at all like this up to this point. He would usually check the flop and the turn to try and induce a bluff. Even after he calls though we are racing, and thank god I hit the d. Thanks to all the railing.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151423 - took him to value town

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151424 - just a good read

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/151425 - last hand of the tourney. I wasn't really sure what to do when he shoved the turn. It really didn't make sense for this guy, because he loved to slow play his huge hands. One thing that worried me was if he had slow played AA or KK pree, and then thought the board was getting scary, and didn't want to see it get any worse. But this is fairly unlikely.

Anyway, thanks to everyone for the rail, always means a lot. I'll be back after one of us takes down a tourney in TS............