status quo poker

Trays, treys, crabs, call them whatever you like but they helped me a lot yesterday, leading to a nice cash-out of $162, which brought me in the lead in the challenge, with the $1000 within reach!

So let’s watch what happened. I decided to play a $30 sit and go with 18 players (I was running a little bad and the plan of Brown and Pink made me little nervous ;) ) and things weren’t going that good: I was able to survive but without many ambitions due my short stack. Then I made a move with A3 suited:

So snowmen was not wat I wished he had, hoping for KQ or something. But the flop was very good for me and luckily he did have two red eights :) . Only two hands later:

So I limp in early position with 33 and flop a set on a low board. There’s a minimum bet and I decide to slowplay it. On the turn the guy who just called on the flop suddenly leads out with a pot sized bet, so I know he must be strong and immediately shove. He was indeed strong: toppair with an OESD. But luckily he didn’t catch a straight on the river. After those two hands I was totally back in the tournament and was able to finish as runner-up.

This second place gave me an advantage of $137 on Mr. White, who is playing a little status-quo lately, mainly in $20 9 handed sng’s. Behind us are Brown ($402), who experienced his expected downswing (still playing beyond his bankroll) and Pink ($138), who is all but dead. Maybe her best strategy would be to play on very low stakes and just wait for Mr. Brown to go broke first. Will save her $100 :) .

Submitted by Mr. Blue

That’s what it looks like if you observe the bankroll evolution in the last past days. Besides Mr. Blue, the other three players have about the same bankroll as they did last time.

Mr. Brown did improve with 30 dollars though ($398), but that’s not that surprising if you’re playing $22 hu sng’s ;) .Mr. White won some and lost some and was in that way not able to do what he did before his tilt: make some solid profits every three days. He has about $269 now and is in third place. I’m still in last place and it just looks like I’m not able to be a winning player anymore. I even scored my coinflip situations this week to see if I was that unlucky and I lost 73% of them, so yes maybe a little unlucky.

The only one who made a decent improvement on his bankroll was Mr. Blue, who won among others a $20 sng with 18 players. He sent me some key hands:

So he escapes there with a spade on the river, but he can’t really escape from that all-in with only 10 bb’s left. A couple of hands later:

That’s really a sick hand :) . So Mr. Blue’s again down to 10 bb’s and shoves against 2 monsters. Of course he’s a big dog preflop against KK, but a two to one favorite against AK for the side pot to stay alive (this improves to 77,96% after the flop). But the case King drops down on the turn (down to 4,76% suddenly) and then he catches one of the two remaining sixes. I hope I’ll have some of that luck the next couple of days so I can compete for victory again ;) .

Submitted by Ms. Pink