JamesMackey

Posts - Maart 2009

• Shooting Star finish

  Maart 21, 2009

  So I managed to bust like 4 hours into the shooting star 10k. I played ok ran poorly early and dropped from starting stack to about 14k. But during the 2nd level I flopped a set vs an overpair to get to about 23k. Not much else happened until the 100/200 25 ante level when I busted to kathy leibert. I got it in for 125bb ak vs kk which is very very rare for me. I am usually pretty hesitant to get in huge pots pf when iam super deep with ak but kathy is a very good player and I thought she was making a move oops. But mistakes happen just gotta move onto the next tournament and try not to make the same mistake next time.

  Anyway after busting out my roomate blake busted like 2 hours later and we just immediately drove the 8 hours back to vegas. So ended up driving 16 hours to stay in san jose almost exactly 24 kind of a waste haha.

  And now iam just hanging out in vegas until april when the bellagio wpt championship series and SCOOP starts. Also I own a house in vegas but may need to move soon so I may start looking into finding a new place.

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• Wynn 2k and Wpt bay 101 shooting stars

  Maart 17, 2009

  So recently I have been busy traveling and playing some stuff live. I am playing the 10k shooting stars tourney in a couple hours so just going to do a quick summary of whats been going on the last week or so and do a longer post where I go more in depth later.

  Last week I got back into vegas (I had been back home in missouri) to play the some of the wynn events that were running. I only got the chance to play the 1k rebuy and 2k events.

  The 1k rebuy only got around 90 players so it only paid final table. I ended up getting 16th in that tourney played pretty well overall but chopped aa vs 1010 deep in the tournament for a big pot and was card dead towards the end.

  The 2k wynn event got around 180 people and I ended up getting 5th in that for something like 16k. I think overall I played very well in the 2k, I made a couple mistakes here and there and one bad reshove on the final table but overall things went well. I will try to come back and talk more about the wynn 2k in a future blog post because I had some interesting hands from it.

  So anyway today me and my roomate blake drove from vegas to san jose for the shooting star event tomorrow. The shooting star is a fun tournament to play its probably the only major tournament in the world that has bounties so it adds an interesting dynamic to how a lot of the hands are played. Anyway I will update later on how things go in it.

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