Charrenge Pwnd

The charrenge is over and I have won it. The $750 version, at least. I think my brain is too pwnd to try and go for 1k. I've played 26 hours of poker since Friday at 5, 11-tabling most of the way. That's 15,107 hands, and $760.70 in winnings. Above is the gross gross HEM graph. 

As you can see, Saturday started off with a gross 11 buy-in downswing, which was pretty much the most soul-crushing 3 hours of my life. But I pressed on, not willing to give up even though I was down $300 at one point 7k hands into the challenge. My luck started to change as I grinded through Saturday afternoon. Saturday night I broke through and got to a high point of +440 or so. I told myself I'd try and grind it up to 500 or so, then leave the rest for Sunday. Unfortunately another 3-4 bi downswing came next, and I had to grind deep into the night just to get back over 400 again.

I woke up today at around 9:30, took a shower, went out to get some coffee, and came back to what I anticipated would be a long day grinding in the hopes of winning $350 before midnight. Fortunately I had some big pots go my way. This was a big one that got me to about the $700 mark:

SB: $54.40

Hero (BB): $62.05

UTG: $50.00

UTG+1: $38.00

MP: $79.65

CO: $13.25

BTN: $14.40

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with 2h Ah

1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $1.50, MP calls $1.50, CO calls $1.50, 2 folds, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($6.25) Qh 2s Kh (4 players)

Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, MP bets $0.50, CO calls $0.50, Hero calls $0.50, UTG+1 calls $0.50

Turn: ($8.25) 8h (4 players)

Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, MP bets $4.10, CO folds, Hero raises to $20.55, UTG+1 requests TIME, UTG+1 calls $20.55, MP calls $16.45

River: ($69.90) Ad (3 players)

Hero bets $39.50 all in, UTG+1 calls $15.45 all in, MP calls $39.50

Final Pot: $164.35

Hero shows 2h Ah (a flush, Ace high)

UTG+1 mucks 8s 8d

MP mucks Kd Kc

Hero wins $48.10

Hero wins $113.25

If that board had paired on the river I might have cried. So close to getting to 750 and so braindead, I decided to tighten up, play a low variance game, and just grind away the last $50. Then this hand came to finally put me over the edge:

SB: $64.50
BB: $29.95
Hero (UTG): $161.60
UTG+1: $50.00
UTG+2: $50.05
MP1: $49.25
MP2: $21.70
CO: $30.90
BTN: $19.25

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is UTG with 9h 9s
Hero raises to $1.75, 6 folds, SB calls $1.50, BB calls $1.25

Flop: ($5.25) 7s 9d 6h (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $4.50, SB raises to $12, BB folds, Hero raises to $41.25, SB calls $29.25

Turn: ($87.75) Qs (2 players)
SB bets $21.50 all in, Hero calls $21.50

River: ($130.75) 4d (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $130.75
SB shows 5c 4h (a pair of Fours)
Hero shows 9h 9s (three of a kind, Nines)
Hero wins $127.75

Whew...ok...GO HEELS!!!

-BRUECHIPS