Full Tilt Poker Tournament #93190708 The $200K Double Deuce NL Hold’em
Buy-In: $20.00 + $2.00
9,009 players
Total Prize Pool: $200,000.00
Start Date: June 21 4:22 PM ET

Dear StatikKling,

You finished the tournament in 506th place.
There has been $70.00 added to your account.

You have earned leaderboard points for this tournament.
To view your current leaderboard points use the My Promotions button in the Cashier window.

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

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I tripled up in the early levels were a donk said that he had to leave and started to push every hand and show the cards. Sure, calling one of these plays is risky, the player could always get lucky. After 4 pushes in a row with everyone folding, I got K♥Q♥ and limped. This player pushed, a different player called(!!) and I had a choice… Is it worth it? I though about it for a bit, factoring in that I had both players covered, I thought that the risk was worth it. I called.

The donk flops over 83o and the other player flips over AKo. Now I’m in trouble. The flop is Q high with two hearts and neither of the other players have a heart, so now, I’m ahead. The turn is also a heart, so I have zee nuts and triple up.

Fast Forward to 1093 players left, bubble is at 1080. I take a HUGE hit when I river the K high flush vs the A high flush. The next hand I have 66 and push. I had two callers, which was not a good sign. They check it down to the river and I had the best hand! A7 vs AQ vs 66. So I make it ITM and after a few orbits, I’m bleeding chips. I push when I have a gutshot straight and flush draw and the chip leader, who happens to be at my table, calls with top pair. I do not improve and I bust out 506th. Not to shabby.

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Bonus tidbit? This is post_id 727.

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I haven’t been posting much.. lost a few posts a while back due to an insecure wordpress plugin, but are the lost posts that big of a loss? No.

I started to play in a local poker league, buyin is $75 for three tournaments, with the top 50% moving on to a final tournament where the top 16-15 players get prizes. It plays like a turbo, 17 minute levels, starting at 25/50 and doubling every so often. Now, here’s the kicker, unlimited rebuys until the end of level 5 when you are below 2k in chips (starting stack) and at the end of level 5, ANYONE can do a rebuy and an addon, no matter what your stack size is. The players? Donkalicious. Playing bottom pair to the river, draws.. they will play ANYTHING during the rebuy period. Even though it’s a No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament, i swear some of these players think it’s a strange version of badugi.

I started when they were already done with 4 “seasons”, or months, during season 5. I did not do a rebuy or addon for the first 3 tournaments, where I finished 6th, 9th and 21st out of 40 players, the maximum allowed to play. I made it to the finals with the first two tournaments, so I was playing a bit different on the last tournament. What I didn’t know is, based on your total points, the sum of the first three tournaments, that determines your starting stack for the final tournament.

The Final tournament, I was mostly card dead, but ended going out just after the bubble, which freerolled my way into season 6.

Season 6? Oh.. I’m only the freaking leader of the league, placing 10th, 10th and 1st. Hopefully I can keep this up for the finals and get something good!

[Update] I forgot to mention, during the last league event, which was last night, I dropped the hammer twice, the first time flopping 2 pair and the second sucking out to win an all in. I showed both times, the second time was forced, but after those two hands.. I was able to steal like a mofo. Freaking awesome. The power of The Hammer is not to be messed with..

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I would like to book my trip to Vegas for the WPBT Winter Classic, but there is little information about the gathering that’s a little over a month away. Yestbay1’s site is the only thing that pops up on google for wpbt winter classic 2008, very little information, but points to The Roosters site. Searching in June, I found a post that also guesses that the dates are Dec 12 -14th. So far nothing solid, but the dates are very close to the past Winter Classic dates. Searching the A list Poker Bloggers sites reveals nothing. Just about looks like the WPBT is dead. We cannot have that, so I will start up monthly WPBT events for 2009. We took a year break from the monthly events, but it’s time they came back.

I see in comments that StB has booked his trip, the twitter feed also has a few bloggers that have booked a trip.. Gracie and Pablo are getting married!! on the 13th.. so the 12-14th dates seem to be confirmed.

Time to book a room at the IP.

[UPDATE] IP booked.

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So Full Tilt added a new style of SnG’s a few days ago called The Matrix, similar to bdidde’s Gemini series (two MTT’s played at the same time with the same players), but FTP’s version is a SnG played 4 times with the same players, but the prize pool is split 5 ways, then each are split again 3 ways. If you haven’t gone cross eyed yet, each of the four SnG’s has 1/5th of the prize pool loot split between 1st, 2nd and 3rd, as usual, then the players who finish with the best positions and more knockouts split the final 1/5th of the prize pool for the top 3 places. I tried one of these SnG’s yesterday, and had a really good result, overall I placed first, but if it had been a standard SnG I would have made more loot. The Matrix games are very interesting and the experience is worth it to play at least one of the events, unless you multi-table many SnG’s already (4 times the work for 1/4th the pay)..

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Now for the non results = money persona, besides the two bad laydowns to spaceman, I played a really good game. I swear that poker bloggers bring out the A game in me. Why can’t I bring my A game to the table all of the time and not just against the bloggers? I’m proud of the way I played and I hope that one day my A game will have a side effect of cashing.

Again, MUCH thanks to the fine folks at www.RakeBrain.com. It was a BLAST! Congrats to the final four in no order: bdiddie, pvanharibo, mookie99 and tnsspaceman!

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I do like email like this from Full Tilt..

This is an automated message sent from Full Tilt Poker.

Full Tilt Poker Tournament #63632613 $2 + $0.25 Sit & Go NL Hold’em
Buy-In: $2.00 + $0.25
18 players
Total Prize Pool: $36.00
Start Date: October 5 5:26 PM ET

Dear StatikKling,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
There has been $14.40 added to your account.

My $1.34 to $100 is at it’s high mark today, although it’s not at it’s highest point ever. I’ll just keep grinding..

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Why bother to calculate pot odds or implied odds, when I know that that 90% of the time, I will lose when I’m at least a 85% favorite to win the hand? Just say’n.

This sums it up about right:

Granted I didn’t LOSE the hand, but that’s the type of crap that I’m talking about, 95% favorite on the flop, turn 100% with the hand, 19% for a tie and one of 8 outs on the river to have the board play. 10 card to improve my hand, 8 to tie, 42 to help no one.

Next time I play online will be in the middle of October. I need to get away from this shyte.

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I’m playing really tight, most likely too tight, but when there are 5 limpers and I make a pot sized bet, don’t you think you’d fold 44, JT, A4 and other small hands? Christ, I’m playing tight and showing great hands! It’s hard to tell, based on the current results, if I am playing well. I guess if you are results oriented, I’m playing rather poorly. The fact that I’m seeing wicked suckouts isn’t helping my mental state. Or my bank roll.

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