Grinding mtt sngs

I've been playing a lot of mtt sngs the last few days, 25 tabling $12 and $36 180 mans, and $27, $38, and $60 45 mans. As you can see from my graph, I've had a lot of success in these games. I actually challenged MI_turtle to a bet for the mtt leaderboard next month but he couldn't do it until August or September, which is when I go back to school.

On another note, I bought a piece of Jorj95's action at the series for $1500 (I already had $1k of him in the $50k 8-game). So hopefully he dominates.

How bad can I run in the 8-game?

The $320 8-game is one of my favorite tournaments of the year cause I loving playing mixed games and SCOOP and WCOOP is the only time you can play a decent 8-game tournament. In this one I somehow managed to go out of both the $320 and the $33 in an hour. I spent the morning playing $88 and $44 8-game satellite turbos for fun and lost 100% of them. Then the tournament started and I had this crazy guy on my left in the $320, he was like the worst. He played every pot, 3 betting and 4 betting with no reasoning behind any of his moves. I lost 2 big pots to him in a row in Omaha 8 when I got AAxx and opened, he 3 bet me, I called it came like 55J and I check called him, turn K and I check called him again, knowing he would continue betting with absolute air and the river was a 5 and I put in a check raise, knowing he was calling with any pair but he had a 5. the very next hand I got AAxx again and flopped top set for the nuts in a 3 way pot and we began building with this crazy guy. There was another low card and I didn't have a low draw but it was worth it with this guy. We capped it on the flop and turn and on the river the low hit and a 3rd club hit (the 2nd club came on the turn) and the crazy guy had a like 5c 6c drawing to a horrible horrible low and nothing else and making a flush to beat me. Then Stud 8 came and I made 2c 3c 4c 5c on the first 4 cards and capped it off on both 4th and 5th street against the guy but never improved the entire hand. He won with aces which I was like a 3-1 favorite against. A few hands later I got 4h 5c 8c 6c Kc 4c which me and that guy had been betting aggressively the whole way. Now I have the K high flush, only clubs showing, and the low draw and he STILL caps it with me with only trips. He rivers a boat and I don't make a low so I lost that pot. Then no-limit holdem came and the hijack opened for 150, cutoff called, I 3 bet to 669 in the sb with AK, the cutoff called, the flop was like 4 8 9 and I had to shove my 1900 into like 1500 pot and he snap called with 33 and beat me. That was like the sickest tournament ever. The $33 went about the same way.

Jorj95 takes 6 deep runs in 2 days with 4 final tables

I just thought I'd mention that last night Jorj95 got 2nd in the $2100 buy in stud 8 event (120 players), while also getting 3rd in the $22 stud 8 event (2854 players), while also finishing 8th in the $1050 2-7 tripple draw event ( 140 players), pretty sick guy. Actually on Monday's events he also took 34th in the $2100 holdem 2-day event (1088 players), 15th in the $1575 PLHE/PLO event (289 players), and 8th in the $162 PLHE/PLO event (1440 players). Taking 2nd in the $22 was another sick guy, Andy McLEOD. Jorj95 and McLEOD have now been at 2 final tables together this SCOOP (they both final tabled the $5200 Omaha 8) and were sitting next to each other for awhile in a big mixed holdem event.

2 deep runs early in SCOOP, exhausted already, still got almost 2 weeks

So SCOOP started on Sunday. Up to this point I played the $215 6-max holdem, $215 holdem, $55 rebuy 6-max holdem, and $109 rebuy PLO turbo. One of the things that has been kinda hanging over me up to this point was that I've never made a deep run in any SCOOP or WCOOP events. I said I was going to make several deep runs this year and have bets on myself to win at least 1 event (with odds of course). In the opening event, the $215 6-max holdem I had a good chance to go deep. Unfortunately a hand came up where I had 140k and got a guy with 100k in with my AKs against his 99 preflop. It was kinda sick to get those stacks in preflop since it was like 90bb but there wasn't anything I could do. With 2 limpers, the aggressive button raised it and I made a standard good sizes 3bet from the bb and he shoved and it's an easy call for me. I lost that one and never recovered and went out like 8-9 hours into the tournament for like a $500something cash. Then I had to drive back to U of I, didn't get to bed until like 1am, and had to get up at 7:30 for school (to do homework due later that morning, I'm a procrastinator, but I got it done). Then yesterday I started the $55 rebuy at 1pm. I only put in 1 buy in and 1 add on (for $105). I was once against super sharp, making moves at all the right times, had very good feels for all my opponents, and was deeply focused. After about 12 hours of play I started get super super tired, both physically and mentally. I had never been in any trouble with my stack the entire tournament and then suddenly a stretch of hands came where I seemed to just be getting owned. Right now I really can't tell you if I was still playing well or not, I'll have to look back at the hands at some point, but a really good player who I have a lot of respect for told me there was a hand where he didn't like my play. I was to tired to think about it at the time but I'll look at it later. Anyway, I went out in 28th place for a $2550 profit. It's a reasonable score but a massive disappointment. $2500 doesn't change anything for me. My life is like 99.9% the same as if I had won $0. I played a TON of interesting hands during the tournament and will hopefully post some at some point. At 4pm today is the $162 heads up and I think I'm going to skip the $109 holdem at 7pm just because I'm so tired and the tournament will last like 15 hours.