FTOPS - Full Tilt Championship Main Event
hello again,
just got back from Europe a couple of days ago, it hs been hot and humid ever since - incredible how quickly your body adjusts to the cold and rainy Denmark!
Still trying to recover from my jetlag I decided not to get involved in any poker, although last night there was a tempting event at the Surf Club in Langosta. Of course Diego - my closest rival for the GPOY 2007 title - went on to win the event and got a step closer.
Today was a looong day which started at 5 in the morning and just ended at 7 in the evening when I finally made it home after meetings all day. Nevertheless I decided I wanted to get some cards exercise on Full Tilt, and I found a cheap $5 w/rebuys and add-on, 45 players and only one winner who would get a seat to something I had not even bothered to check into - I just wanted some tournament poker practice!
I went on to win the entire thing just to realize it released a $535 buy-in to the FTOPS Main Event Sunday evening - and Gus is the host!
UPDATE:
3,798 players signed up and created quite a prize pool. I hung in there, built a nice stack when I won my first decent pot hitting my nut flush on the trun and seeing my neighbor go all-in. A few good opportunities to double up went well, until we were down to roughly 700 players (522 got in the money). I was at 2/3 of the average stack, UTG had limped, I had raised him 4 times the bet with AK, the blinds folded, and he re-raised me. I could smell the aces (or maybe kings) from far away, but I had almost half my stack in the pot already, and with the chances he was bluffing or playin an underpair (very unlikely I guess) I saw myself go all-in. He did have aces, but 2 kings came on the flop to save my ass (I was 11.5-1 dog there), phew.
I made it well into the money, but it did not really get serious until the last 2 tables. At least I got $1,139 out of it on my $15 investment. In the last hand I held QQ and was reraised - not big, and again the alarm bells rang. Still I ended up with all my chips (although I had thought of just calling) in the middle, and he had the aces. This time they held up, and I was down to the blinds size. One hand later I was out.
Nevertheless it was a good training experience and it gave me some much needed mileage. I will have to trust my gut feelings more from now on and learn to fold even big hands.
just got back from Europe a couple of days ago, it hs been hot and humid ever since - incredible how quickly your body adjusts to the cold and rainy Denmark!
Still trying to recover from my jetlag I decided not to get involved in any poker, although last night there was a tempting event at the Surf Club in Langosta. Of course Diego - my closest rival for the GPOY 2007 title - went on to win the event and got a step closer.
Today was a looong day which started at 5 in the morning and just ended at 7 in the evening when I finally made it home after meetings all day. Nevertheless I decided I wanted to get some cards exercise on Full Tilt, and I found a cheap $5 w/rebuys and add-on, 45 players and only one winner who would get a seat to something I had not even bothered to check into - I just wanted some tournament poker practice!
I went on to win the entire thing just to realize it released a $535 buy-in to the FTOPS Main Event Sunday evening - and Gus is the host!
UPDATE:
3,798 players signed up and created quite a prize pool. I hung in there, built a nice stack when I won my first decent pot hitting my nut flush on the trun and seeing my neighbor go all-in. A few good opportunities to double up went well, until we were down to roughly 700 players (522 got in the money). I was at 2/3 of the average stack, UTG had limped, I had raised him 4 times the bet with AK, the blinds folded, and he re-raised me. I could smell the aces (or maybe kings) from far away, but I had almost half my stack in the pot already, and with the chances he was bluffing or playin an underpair (very unlikely I guess) I saw myself go all-in. He did have aces, but 2 kings came on the flop to save my ass (I was 11.5-1 dog there), phew.
I made it well into the money, but it did not really get serious until the last 2 tables. At least I got $1,139 out of it on my $15 investment. In the last hand I held QQ and was reraised - not big, and again the alarm bells rang. Still I ended up with all my chips (although I had thought of just calling) in the middle, and he had the aces. This time they held up, and I was down to the blinds size. One hand later I was out.
Nevertheless it was a good training experience and it gave me some much needed mileage. I will have to trust my gut feelings more from now on and learn to fold even big hands.
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