Ok, so here is the post that I promised a few posts ago. During the Christmas Vacation, the wife and I made the trip to her parents house for a white christmas. I can understand why she says christmas isn’t the same in Southern California as it is near Tahoe. There’s just something about snow and christmas that goes together. Shorts, T-shirts and christmas do not mix.

My Mother-in-law loves to play poker, but her friends.. well.. don’t. So she doesn’t get the opportunity to play that often. Every time we visit, she gets a nice SnG or two every night, but unfortunately for her, we don’t visit that often. This time, one of my holiday gifts to her was a buy-in to a local tournament. So while my mother-in-law was out shopping with her daughters, I was calling up local casino’s looking for a nice tournament for us to play later in the day. When I told her what I was planning she tells me that she is very excited to play in her first poker tournament and that she believes that I will win the tournament. I tell her If we get heads up, I’m not going to show any mercy and we both laugh. After calling a few casinos, the Carson Valley Inn had just the tournament that I was looking for. Carson Valley Inn had a $35+$5 tournament that night and the top 3-5 players who cash, depending on the total players, got a T-shirt. How awesome is that. As an added bonus, if you log an hour of cash table time, you get an extra T$500. I called back around 4pm to sign us up for the tournament.

The in-laws and I arrived at CVI a little after 5pm and bought into the tournament. We also sat down at a 2-6 spread limit game to get our extra T$500. About 40 minutes into the session, I get pocket aces. I was in late position and I min-raised to $4 as the table was loose pre-flop. This may have been a mistake, but I wanted players in the hand and there were 2 players that I new would re-raise with any two cards. There was one caller, then the big blind, one of the players that I new would re-raise me, did just that making it $10 to go. It folded back to me, where I re-raised it another $6. LP called and the BB re-raised again. I called as did the LP player. Now the pot was $53. The flop came down 668. I can put any of the players on a 6 or and 8 based on the pre-flop action. The BB bets $6, I re-raise to $12 the LP calls and the BB raises another $6, where I call and the LP calls. The pot is $107. The Turn is a Jack and the BB bets out, I re-raise, the LP calls and the BB calls. The River is an 8. The BB bets out again, I call with my last few chips and the LP calls. The BB says, I hope you can beat a boat and flips over 85 off suit. I much my cards face up and just stare in awe as to how this jackass, would re-raise me TWICE pre-flop with 8-5 off. Of course he was boasting on about how great he was, but I was bent. What a donkey. I can understand the play AFTER the flop, as he had two pair, but to have his ass beat until he hit a two outer on the river just blows. Mimics online play for the past couple days. Heh.

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Ok.. what is up with the river? How come when all the loot goes in either pre-fop or on the flop, when I’m WAY ahead, the river kills my ass. During the Midnight Madness satellite, I should have kicked out 2 players, one of them twice, but the river SAVES them. AQ vs AJ, K7 vs K3, 77 vs 66. I lost all of those races. Eventually I placed first in the SnG, but damn, thats just nuts. Then during the Midnight Madness, I was never in the all-in/ahead position until level 14. I get 99 UTG and have been really tight and make a pot sized bet. The SB calls my bet, who is also the chip leader at the table. It’s Columbo’s classic OUU flop, 46T rainbow. SB checks, I push for 1/3 his stack and he insta-calls. He calls my all in for 1/3 his chips with 88. The turn is a blank and wouldn’t you know it.. a fucking 8. Instead of having almost 30k in chips at level 14 and in the top 10 with 190 players left and in a nice stack to take down the tournament, I get busted in 190th place for $16.68 as a 95.45% favorite, thanks to the river. At least it’s not an $5 profit, but a $13 profit.

But seriously, why are the river suckouts so high?!

tags: $1, full tilt, midnight madness

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Generate Full Tilt Summaries, or GFTS, has been updated to version v0.2.14. Please let me know if you have any issues by posting a comment here.

Changes:
• fix: Private Tournaments are now exported properly again. Tested aganst version 4.12.34.4 of the Full Tilt Client

Download the new version at mattahfahtu.com/gfts/

tags: full tilt, tournament summaries, gfts, poker software

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Prepping for my WSOP event, I wanted to see if I could satellite into Event #7 of FTOPS, because of the time and event schedule, Event #7 was really the only FTOPS event that I could play in. I found a STT Satellite where the top 3 get entry into Event #7. Thanks to the Donkey Challenge, I feel confident that I will make the final three spots and enter the STT. First hand dealt, I had presto and flopped a set with two other players in the hand and two hearts on the flop. The turn brought me quads and I checked, MP bet out 2/3 the pot, LP called and I called. The river brought another heart, the best card for me. I checked, MP checked, LP pushed. I think my insta-call here may have scared off the MP and he folds. The LP showed A2h for the nut flush, but my quads felted him. Great way to start the STT. The next two players dropped quickly and we were six handed for quite a while, then one player dropped out, and when we got to the bubble, my QQ held up against JJ to break the bubble and I earned my seat in FTOPS Event #7!

Update: About 15 minutes into FTOPS #7 I had a heated conversation with my wife which put me on tilt big time. Used my Add On loot as a rebuy and tilted my FTOPS glory away. Fail.

tags: ftops, full tilt, stt

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In last night’s Midnight Madness tournament I made my best showing yet. Out of 1,872 players, I finished 28th. Out of the six Midnight Madness tournaments that I have played in, I have cashed in three of them and my RIO is quite nice. My final hand, I was in chip gathering/survival mode with an M of less than 7, I pushed with A6o to get called by AQo, we both hit our kickers on the flop, but I did not improve. Unfortunately I was the bubble of the next prize increase, so if I was focused on just the money, I should have waited, but making the next prize level was not my goal, I wanted to win. To win, I would need chips and my table image and stack size was about the right size to push off a lot of players and if I were to wait, that might not have been the case.

Question.. you are at the bubble of the next prize level, which would jump the prize payout another 33% to what the current level is at and you have an M of 7 and have a weak Ace. There are four people who have smaller chip stacks than you and 23 players who have more chips. What would you do?

tags: full tilt, midnight madness, poker, question

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