Well, we're currently at the third break of the WBCOOP. If you want to know what that means, just look it up
Anyway, it's a freeroll for bloggers that has a $40k prize pool. There are now 188 left out of the 1337 that started. The prize bubble starts at 81st place with some schwag and 1st place is a $12k prize package to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. A bunch of WPBT members are still in it so hopefully if I don't win then I'll at least know the winner.
At the same time we recently excited the 2nd hour of a $10 rebuy, also on Stars. I'm sitting at about 2k above average with ~600 people left after over 2000 started. The top 227 spots pay in that one with a $15k first prize. So it's possible (although highly unlikely) that I could end up winning almost $30k in the next few hours. Wouldn't that be nice?
So if you're not busy then come rail me!
Just won a seat into tonight's 750k guarantee on FullTilt. It was a $24+2 mtt satellite with 35 seats. Took over the chip lead with about 75 left, sat out for a long time before I had to come back as people were taking way too long to bust and my stack was getting whittled down. Ended up about 10 from the bubble when it burst.
At the same time I've been playing a $24+2 180 seat SnG on FullTilt. Currently have over 1/3 the chips in play with 6 left at the final table. I'll post a bit more once it wraps up.
Well today I actually fired up FTP today to play a little bit of poker. Early in the morning I decided to play a little $5+.50 Omaha/8 Sit N Go. I by no means am an excellent Omatard player but boy did I feel dominating in this thing! It was typical in that mostly everybody at the table had no regard for their starting cards. With me only being in the hand with huge draws or near-nuts, it was actually very easy and I coasted to the win.
Later on, I decided to hop in one of the $10+1 donkaments that started at 4pm. There were 303 runners in this one, which is a field size that I enjoy. Just a shade over 4 hours later, here was the result:
That's right, I actually final tabled! Overall it was a pretty typical deep run. I made one bad move and hit an A for my 3 outer (I had the guy covered), I made one great move for a ton of chips with about 30 left, and overall played very tight/agressive poker. I got slightly impatient when 3 handed after I had to make a laydown the previous hand against PokerStunna89, who ended up being a very solid player. The s00ted dude was a complete donk and I had seen him both raise and call all-in very light. So after he raised my BB on the button, I came over the top with KT. He called with Ax, I don't hit, and I go home $363.60 richer. A little disappointed as I stayed in the top 10 for probably 3/4ths of the entire thing. However, I had taken a hit to my stack and was 17/20 at one point as well. It's my first top 3 in awhile so it definitely feels good to get back on track.
Well I just got done with my 2nd satellite cash in 3 days. Friday night I played in a $14 super on FullTilt for entry into todays' $100 satellite into the $500 buyin, $1 million guarantee. I just won my seat in that having busted in 80-something with the top 185 in the field making it. I'm also playing in the $5k guarantee, 6-max, PLHE tournament. I've chipped up a bit but it's still really early in that one. I kind of wish that I hadn't entered though as I like to concentrate fully on a single table in the big buyin events. Plus I could use a little break. Oh well. I might as well just go ahead and go deep in them both!
So I'll be on the lookout for other bloggers in this thing, hope to see you at the final table
Bayne was yet again the steamroller last night in a BBT event. This one being a
MATH event. When one of the
Penner boys stated in IRC that he was coming to rail me at the final table I knew it was about to get bad. 4 hands and 3 people being busted by
Bayne, to include myself, did nothing to dissuade me of this. I went out in 4th. After watching
Bayne have a few big hands in a row and bust two people, I pushed over the top of his raise UTG with AT thinking that there's no way he's going something good enough to call me. At this point I was 2nd in chips and had at least half his stack. Boy was I wrong. He had AK and busted me.
Columbo was gone after just another hand or two when he flopped middle pair on a low, non-threatening board and figured
Bayne was trying to push him around. Nope.
Bayne had flopped two pair I believe and
Columbo goes to the rail bemoaning his fate of being the latest victim of Baynes' horshoe in a dark place.
Oh well. It was my first cash in a MATH tourney. That's always a good thing because #1, I don't play very many of them and #2, I normally play like a complete donkey in blogger gatherings. For some reason I just totally play like the field of a $1 rebuy in these things most of the time. I've done well in them when I actually put my mind to it as I won the WWDN twice, won the blogger bracelet race (don't get me started again about my WSOP dream), and have now final tabled and cashed the MATH. I really don't play these things all that often although I'm probably ahead in them if you take them all into account.
At the same time last night I secure another cash, this one being the $3 rebuy. Not much to note here, I just got unlucky with QQ against KK against one of two people that had me outchipped. Once you're in the money though and before the final table, there's no way I'm laying the bitches down in something like this. Too many times you're ahead and the money at that point ain't worth a damn anyway. So I went out 60-something and took home like $15.
I also played the $20 rebuy. I tried the pushmonkey, build-a-stack tactic early on and threw too many rebuys in. I still felt like I had an edge on the field though so I kept at it and just tighted up a bit. I had a huge stack actually by the end of the 2nd hour, being 14th out of like 90. This one was not meant to be as I got distracted by the better half and made a huge donk move of pushing over the top of a big stack with AT. Not her fault that I'm a dummy and couldn't do two things at once. It was simply me being impatient when I'm in great shape late in a tourney. That's the biggest leak of my game and one that I'm starting to get plugged. Not this time however and I went out like 30 or 40 from the money.
