operation WCOOP: win 100 satellites

I haven't been winning enough money this summer. This needs to change. The WCOOP satellites are very soft and my goal is to win 100 of them before the start of the WCOOP on September 14, including 50 during August, when I'll probably make a month-long prop bet with a 2+2er who plays even more satellites than I do.

I have a big edge in satellites and it comes from the fact that I've done much more thinking about pre-flop shoving and calling ranges than almost any of my opponents. Every day, I see players, winning players even, over-play big pairs and AK on the bubble when they could've sat back and just folded their way into a seat. Or else they fold too much and get blinded down when they should've been shoving and stealing blinds. I believe I play the bubble almost perfectly. If I feel that I misplayed a bubble hand, I'll post it in here, and if I think I played a hand correctly that most players would've misplayed then I'll post it in here too. But mainly I just want to motivate myself to play a lot, win a lot, and make monies.

In this post I'll make a list of the satellites I've won.

#1: 7-18-07, WCOOP-7: 750 FPP turbo to $215 Limit Hold'em
#2: 7-19-07, WCOOP-4: $22 turbo to $215 2-7 Triple Draw
#3: 7-21-07, WCOOP-4: $39 sat to $215 2-7 Triple Draw
#4: 7-21-07, WCOOP-4: $8.80 DS turbo to $215 2-7 Triple Draw
#5: 7-26-07, WCOOP-23: $11+R turbo to Sunday's qualifier ($320)
#6: 8-01-07, WCOOP-11: $39 sat to $215 Razz
#7: 8-02-07, WCOOP-12: $39 sat to $215 HORSE
#8: 8-04-07, WCOOP-1: $39 sat to $215 NLHE [6-max]
#9: 8-04-07, WCOOP-4: $22 turbo to $215 2-7 Triple Draw
#10: 8-05-07, WCOOP-9: $39 sat to $215 NLHE w/rebuys
#11: 8-08-07, WCOOP-11: $22 turbo to $215 Razz
#12: 8-09-07, WCOOP-12: 1500 FPP sat to $215 NLHE [6-max]
#13: 8-10-07, WCOOP-23: $11+R turbo to Sunday's qualifier ($320)
#14: 8-13-07, WCOOP-5: $16+R sat to $530 NL Hold'em
#15: 8-16-07, WCOOP-17: $11+R turbo to $320 NLHE [6-max]
#16: 8-26-07, WCOOP-11: $22 turbo to $215 Razz
#17: 8-26-07, WCOOP-23: $11+R turbo to Sunday's qualifier ($320)
#18: 8-27-07, WCOOP-4: $39 sat to $215 2-7 Triple Draw
#19: 8-28-07, WCOOP-17: $11+R turbo to $320 NLHE [6-max]
#20: 8-29-07, WCOOP-17: $11+R turbo to Sunday's qualifier ($320)

What's ur nickname at PokerStars? mcatdog?

Good luck!

Are you going to actually play any of the tourneys you win entry to?

I won't play very many events but I may play these.

WCOOP-1: $215 NLHE [6-max], $400K guaranteed
WCOOP-4: $215 2-7 Triple Draw, $100K guaranteed
WCOOP-11: $215 Razz, $100K guaranteed
WCOOP-17: $320 NLHE [6-max], $400K guaranteed

I'm playing #1 for sure, there's a good chance I'll play #4 and #17, and I probably won't play #11 unless I improve my razz game drastically in the near future. Mostly my goal is to amass several thousand dollars worth of W$ and sell it right before the WCOOP starts.

how's it going?

When I started this challenge I thought the WCOOP satellites would run a lot more often than they do, sort of like the Sunday Million satellites which run around the clock. So this is obviously not going to happen but I'll just see how many I can take down.

Man, people really played horrendously today. I feel like I should have won more than 3 seats but I'm still pretty happy with the 1K I made today (despite bubbling two final tables).

Here's the final hand of one of the satellites I won, it paid 6 people. I would have, um, played it a little differently.

PokerStars Game #11319939716: Tournament #57259637, $36+$3 Hold'em No
Limit - Level VII (150/300) - 2007/08/05 - 08:24:39 (ET)
Table '57259637 3' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: oscar21 (3725 in chips)
Seat 2: mcatdog (3958 in chips)
Seat 3: MELBOURNE.1 (3429 in chips)
Seat 5: flamboyant1 (5855 in chips)
Seat 6: treefella (15865 in chips)
Seat 7: Jonni (9967 in chips)
Seat 8: bibi (5035 in chips)
Seat 9: topspur76 (6166 in chips)
oscar21: posts the ante 25
mcatdog: posts the ante 25
MELBOURNE.1: posts the ante 25
flamboyant1: posts the ante 25
treefella: posts the ante 25
Jonni: posts the ante 25
bibi: posts the ante 25
topspur76: posts the ante 25
mcatdog: posts small blind 150
MELBOURNE.1: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mcatdog [Qh 2c]
flamboyant1: calls 300
treefella: folds
Jonni: folds
bibi: folds
topspur76: calls 300
oscar21: raises 3400 to 3700 and is all-in
mcatdog: folds
MELBOURNE.1: calls 3104 and is all-in
flamboyant1: folds
topspur76: calls 3400
*** FLOP *** [Ah 5h Jd]
*** TURN *** [Ah 5h Jd] [4d]
*** RIVER *** [Ah 5h Jd 4d] [7s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
topspur76: shows [Js Jh] (three of a kind, Jacks)
oscar21: shows [Ad Qd] (a pair of Aces)
topspur76 collected 592 from side pot
MELBOURNE.1: shows [Qs As] (a pair of Aces)
topspur76 collected 10862 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 11454 Main pot 10862. Side pot 592. | Rake 0
Board [Ah 5h Jd 4d 7s]
Seat 1: oscar21 (button) showed [Ad Qd] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: mcatdog (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: MELBOURNE.1 (big blind) showed [Qs As] and lost with a pair of
Aces
Seat 5: flamboyant1 folded before Flop
Seat 6: treefella folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Jonni folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: bibi folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: topspur76 showed [Js Jh] and won (11454) with three of a kind,
Jacks

I want to buy a nice mountain bike and a couple weeks ago I set myself the goal that I could buy it when I made another 5K. I've made about 3K since then so I should get it soon unless I run bad. The bike I want costs about $1200. Here's a picture of it.

http://www.soulcraftbikes.com/upload/gallery/59.jpg

I won two donkaments this weekend for 3500 and 2100, my two biggest scores to date. This week I'm probably buying the bicycle that I've had my eye on for awhile.

Tonight I won a $530 seat and this was the last hand. I usually don't get emotional about bad beats that I take or put on someone else but I honestly felt really awful for this guy.

*********** # 239 **************
PokerStars Game #11478587991: Tournament #57942407, $15+$1 Hold'em No
Limit - Level XIV (1500/3000) - 2007/08/14 - 01:58:14 (ET)
Table '57942407 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 2: Entropy xx (16318 in chips)
Seat 3: mcatdog (72199 in chips)
Seat 4: skower (11040 in chips)
Seat 6: xthesteinx (36054 in chips)
Seat 7: linf3 (131329 in chips)
Seat 9: trashman61 (42060 in chips)
Entropy xx: posts the ante 300
mcatdog: posts the ante 300
skower: posts the ante 300
xthesteinx: posts the ante 300
linf3: posts the ante 300
trashman61: posts the ante 300
Entropy xx: posts small blind 1500
mcatdog: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mcatdog [Ah As]
skower: folds
xthesteinx: folds
linf3: folds
trashman61: folds
Entropy xx: raises 13018 to 16018 and is all-in
mcatdog: calls 13018
*** FLOP *** [8d Jc Td]
*** TURN *** [8d Jc Td] [6h]
*** RIVER *** [8d Jc Td 6h] [Js]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Entropy xx: shows [Ks Kc] (two pair, Kings and Jacks)
mcatdog: shows [Ah As] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
mcatdog collected 33836 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 33836 | Rake 0
Board [8d Jc Td 6h Js]
Seat 2: Entropy xx (small blind) showed [Ks Kc] and lost with two pair,
Kings and Jacks
Seat 3: mcatdog (big blind) showed [Ah As] and won (33836) with two
pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 4: skower folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: xthesteinx folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: linf3 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: trashman61 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seems you're doing really well considering the number of these tourneys that run.

I've wanted to enter a few recently but they just don't run as often as they need.

Is the competition generally made up of small stakes players taking shots, because I've found this to be true of the sunday million sats I play?

I've spent a lot of money on buy-ins though, so I'm only up about $1000 for the challenge.

And yes the players in these satellites are pretty weak, but probably not quite as weak as in the Sunday Million satellites. Especially in the sats to the higher-buyin events. At the $530 sat final table last night I felt like I was the 3rd best player at the final table which is very rare for me in these things.

the sucky thing about doing wcoop satellites is they dont run frequently enough. It's like one every 15 minutes.

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Originally Posted by IowaSkinsFan

the sucky thing about doing wcoop satellites is they dont run frequently enough. It's like one every 15 minutes.

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Yeah, tell me about it. Especially since my roll is now big enough that anything with a buy-in of less than like $40 is really a waste of time for me and I only play it if I don't have enough tables open.

School started so I doubt I'll play much from here on out, and I'm already starting to sell my W$. I'll be happy to get to 20.

Here's a hand where I just wasn't sure what to do. 8 people were left, 6 seats, and the other table had 3 people each with about 3K chips and one enormous stack. The raiser was pretty tight so I didn't want to get into a confrontation with him even though I have a monster hand. Then on 2nd draw I fold (?) because the chips I stand to win aren't nearly as valuable as the ones I stand to gain.

I ended up bubbling FWIW and even though a couple of races had to not go my way, I'm still second-guessing this hand. If anyone reads this thread, comments?

PokerStars Game #11837444822: Tournament #59862042, $36+$3 Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball Limit - Level IX (600/1200) - 2007/09/02 - 20:43:32 (ET)
Table '59862042 2' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 3: Entropy xx (6545 in chips)
Seat 4: 3boris (6950 in chips)
Seat 5: mddgfc (7105 in chips)
Seat 6: mcatdog (7050 in chips)
mcatdog: posts small blind 300
Entropy xx: posts big blind 600
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to mcatdog [3d 4c 2h Ad 7s]
3boris: folds
mddgfc: raises 600 to 1200
mcatdog: calls 900
Entropy xx: folds
*** FIRST DRAW ***
mcatdog: discards 1 card [Ad]
Dealt to mcatdog [3d 4c 2h 7s] [Qh]
mddgfc: discards 1 card
mcatdog: checks
mddgfc: bets 600
mcatdog: calls 600
*** SECOND DRAW ***
mcatdog: discards 1 card [Qh]
Dealt to mcatdog [3d 4c 2h 7s] [Th]
mddgfc: stands pat
mcatdog: checks
mddgfc: bets 1200
mcatdog: folds
mddgfc collected 4200 from pot
mddgfc: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4200 | Rake 0
Seat 3: Entropy xx (big blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 4: 3boris folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 5: mddgfc (button) collected (4200)
Seat 6: mcatdog (small blind) folded after the 2nd Draw

u must have the most amzing discipline ever