Adam Junglen

I played the PLO and Triple Shoot-out WCOOP events on PokerStars today. I was looking forward to both.

In the Pot-Limit Omaha tournament I busted fairly quickly. The structure was such that it forced players to gamble early. I ended getting my money in with Aces and the nut flush draw vs. a set. I missed my draw and was busto within an hour. Oh well.

Over at my shootout table it looked like it was going to be a very tough table. BelowAbove, Andy McLeod, Twisted Echo, and myself were all at the same table.

The shootout format is pretty fun.

This tournament was capped at 742 entrants, so it started with 81 tables of 9 players each. Once each table yielded a winner the remaining 81 players were divided into 9 players at the 9 remaining tables. Then of course once each of the 9 tables had a winner they merged to create the final table.

I managed to win my first table, despite it featuring several players with great results.

My 2nd table was VERY soft. Despite the table being very weak, it was still no lock for me to win. Remember, in a shootout you must win in order to advance. I played a very patient game and picked good spots to accumulate chips without risk and found myself heads-up facing a roughly 3.5:1 deficit in chips (my 6k to his 21k).

My strategy was to get heads-up and the structure allowed a lot of play – so I felt confident about my chances once I reached that goal.

I chipped up to around 8k vs 19k, then this hand came up.

Link to hand

Once again I had made a great “hero call” vs my opponent. After this hand I had a marginal lead, and all the momentum. I ended up finishing my opponent off when he stacked off with an overpair vs my top two pair.

On to the final table!

The final table started off very well for me. I was picking up some hands and quickly built up my starting stack of 3k to 3.6k. Players generally played VERY tight (rightly so) because of the ridiculous payout jumps. 9th place paid around $3.5k and 1st place paid $75k. Tell me that’s not ridiculous?

Anyways, I ended up flopping a set and doubled up, which gave me the chiplead. With 5 players left I was the clear favorite and very confident in my chances of winning the bracelet.

To be honest, this was the first time the title truly meant more to me than the money. 1st was “only” $75k but winning a World Championship of Online Poker Event is recognized feat. I have enough money….but lack any major titles.

At any rate I ended up losing a sizeable pot when my opponent outflopped me with his AQ vs my AK. After that I just couldn’t get anything going. I still had a playabe stack, but the opponent to my right would constantly out-flop me. Whenever I’d pick up a big hand I’d open the pot and everyone would fold.

Once with Kings I raised the pot, BB called and the flop was QT9. Not exactly a dream flop, as it was obviously draw heavy. BB checked, I c-bet 825 or so into the pot of 1150 and he called. Turn was an 8 completing a straight for any jack. BB checked, I checked behind. River a was T, making the board QT98T. BB checked, and with no value in betting I checked behind.

He tabled J7 for a straight and I lost the minimum – but it’s obviously frustrating when your opponent runs like god when we’re playing for top 3 prize money and a WCOOP title.

I ended up busting out in 3rd place, getting it AIPF with A9 vs TT. I’m pretty pissed off at myself with how I played the last 30 minutes or so of this tournament. Having both of my opponents 3 handed catch every flop and run insane vs. me resulted in my demise. In retrospect I certainly could’ve played better, but I really couldn’t catch a break 3 handed. My last hand was the one and only time that I was all-in (without the nuts) at risk for elimination. Again, I failed to get lucky in this kind of situation.

3rd paid $36,450

Still a nice finish, and after taking a month off of playing online MTT’s it’s nice to know I can still crank out a big score when I’m focused.

Thanks for the support everybody.

-Adam Junglen

Well, besides having my blog fixed up the past few days I really haven’t been doing that much. I’ve played a few online tournaments, but haven’t had any great results. On the plus side I’ve actually enjoyed playing tournaments online the last few days. I’m looking forward to playing Friday’s events, they’ve got a PLO event, as well as a triple shootout. Should be a good time.

This Sunday is the WCOOP Main Event, which will likely be the biggest tournament in online poker history. It’s a $2,500 buy-in and first place will likely be over $1 million. I’m obviously looking forward to it

That’s all for now,

-Adam Junglen

As you can see my blog has undergone a major change. It’s still being tweaked a bit, but at this point it’s good enough to “go live.” I’ll be adding some new stuff as the week goes by.

Some of you may have missed out, but while my blog was being reconstructed I was blogging at tworags. They’re a great community and many of my friends blog there. I highly suggest you add it to your bookmarks – there’s a ton of great content there.

Hey all,

This site is going to be under construction for the next few days. I’m in the process of getting things changed around for the better. I’m well aware it currently looks like garbage, so I’m hiring someone to help out with that.

Should be back up and looking better soon.

This is going to be a quick note just to say that:

1) I’ve arrived back home safely.

2) I realize my blog is completely white. I guess the place that hosted the old background closed down…I’ll find a new background by tomorrow – but for now I need to run some errands.

Today was Day 2B of the WSOPE ME.

I was fairly patient all day, and really couldn’t get much going. Near the end of the day I finally caught some momentum when I doubled up from around 40k to about 85k, then proceeded to get it in with AK vs. AA for 160k+ and lose. Sorry for the vagueness, but there really wasn’t anything too spectacular happening.

Action on my busout hand:

600/1200/200

Gobbo limps utg, MP limps, loose aggressive makes it 6.8k from the CO, I wake up with AK in the SB, make it 21k. This was the 2nd or 3rd time I’d 3-bet his raises and he’d seen me before as an active player. Anyways, he tanks and then moves in for the rest of my chips, which was about 65k. Kind of a gross spot, but I really didn’t intend to 3-bet/fold, and was getting a pretty solid price – so I called off the rest of my 50bb stack with AK, then this guy had the nerve to slowroll AA vs me. Not sure what it is with Europeans and slowrolling, this was the 6th – 7th instance of it happening in this tournament and it’s pretty sleazy.

Anyways, I lost that and was sent to the rail with a few minutes left in the day.

Despite busting out I’m pretty content with myself. I used to get pretty into the live tournaments, but I wasn’t even that deep in this one. I can’t possibly complain about running into AA after my recent results. I’ve had a great time in Barcelona/London, but I’ve got a great life waiting for me back home. I’ll be on the next direct flight to Cleveland later today.

At the Feature Table