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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Ryerson vs MIT

On sunday I played my play off game against MIT for the college starleague. I was up against Haitao Mao, a Zerg player, on the map Destination. We were suppose to play on Saturday night, but he had plans so the match was pushed a date. We finally start the game with me as Protoss spawning at the top position while he spawned at the bottom as Zerg. I opted to open for a fast expansion which is pretty standard in this match up to catch up with Zergs early booming economy. My first scouting probe harassed his mineral line and he ended up making two spawning pools, but he canceled one and made a 3rd hatch. Everything seemed standard until I realized he mined out my back mineral which forced me to put 2 more cannons in my mineral line for all in zergling run around. My initial scouting probe got into his base again and did not see lair tech so I assumed it was an all in build or 4 hatch hydra.



As my third, fourth and fifth cannon were beginning to warp in, a critical amount of Hydralisk began to march in through the bridge and shot at my buildings. I quickly stacked my probes and probe drilled the Hydras so my two initial cannons could shoot pot shots at the Hydra. My Dark Templar pops out of the gateway and rushes quickly to the hydralisk hacking at them. A few seconds later it is detected by the floating Overlord from below. I quickly retreat the Dark Templar into the cannons while waiting for my corsairs to come back and shoot down the Overlord.






My corsairs injure the overlord but I lose the first one and fly away the second one immediately. Mao`s Hydralisk began shooting at the probes forming a wall in front of the Photon Cannon. I sent my last corsair to shoot down the overlord. "Adun Toridas". My seconds Dark Templar pops out and begins hacking at the Hydralisk. Without detection, Mao retreats his forces back to his base while I rebuild my Protoss ball and move out.

Heading towards the midgame, I take my 3rd and 4th base getting my third gas. Putting pressure on him to expand or deal damage with his forces. Mao expands very late and attempts a doom drop in my main, but I am well prepared for it. I move out my Protoss death ball with 3/2/1 Upgrades and walk towards his expansion. He threatens to counter-attack my 5th base but I do not budge and take down his 3rd. In the mist of that, I send 2 DT's into his bottom right expansion and kill all his drones. I engage his frail Zerg army and crush him with timely storms and he types out. gg

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Friday, April 2, 2010

internet poker



This session I'm up 1.5 buy-in over 2 hours. I got stacked trying to steal q7 OOP and villain flats with q8. Flop comes Q87 and I ended up getting stacked for about 90bbs. I think I could have avoided it, but it would have been really hard to give the villain credit for a hand in that situation. I have been playing 4 tables instead of my regular 8 tables. I am trying to play better and directly towards the villain instead of auto piloting and set mining.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

downswing/tilt

stuck 80$ for today. sick downswing and tilt. feel like shit. must regroup.

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