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Of course I’m playing!

brdweb — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:09:23 +0000

Let’s see, this will be the 4th year in a row. Two of the previous 3 I’ve gone pretty deep and close to the prizes. Watch out world!

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

The WBCOOP is an online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers.

Registration code: 291058

More BBT3 information

brdweb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:06:21 +0000

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Well, thanks to Al’s great work in generating interest from Full Tilt in sponsoring our little private tournies, there is a great prize pool available for the BBT3. Most of the details can be found in this post from Al and I’m going to actually try and play some of these and win my seat [...] Related posts:

WBCOOP and Stars $10 Rebuy

brdweb — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:42:04 +0000

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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!

Satellite Win and a Final Table

brdweb — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:32:26 +0000

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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 [...] Related posts:

Pokerstars does it again

brdweb — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:13:05 +0000

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I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers. Registration code: 7563442 Related posts:Of course I’m playing! Limit Cash Games Blogger Big Game Related posts:

Nice way to come back after a break

brdweb — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:14:37 +0000

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.

Golfing for Dollars

brdweb — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:33:04 +0000

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Well, not exactly. Although I did in fact golf on Friday. That was the day that this years’ annual G1 (personnel section) golf tournament. They do it as a fund raiser every year. In addition to the golf there was also a silent auction of various pictures, guitars, and football goodies signed by famous people.

I ended up having a blast in spite of the 96 degree heat and our team not playing so well. It was pretty amazing that I ended up playing the best of the foursome despite having the least amount of golfing experience. My favorite shot was putting my tee shot on a par 3 within 10 feet of the cup using a 6 iron at about 175 yards out. That ended up being the only hole we would birdie all day. That’s pretty terrible for a scramble event. But as I said, I still had a good time and hope to start golfing on at least a semi-regular basis.

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$14 into?

brdweb — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:26:55 +0000

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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 [...] Related posts:

BAYNE!!!!

brdweb — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:27:55 +0000

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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.

Another cash, another disappointment

brdweb — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:12:30 +0000

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Remember how I said that I was still alive in both the Daily Doubles after my 2nd place finish the other night? Well I was able to hit the cash around avg stack in DDA and so had consecutive cashes for the first time in quite awhile. Of course once in the money I went card dead and the high price of the blinds forced me to make a few moves and I went out in 66th. Still finished ahead of about 1000 other donkeys. DDB I finished 300-something as I never really got into a good position there but a top-half finish still made me pretty happy.

I finally subscribed to the PokerDB at the Bluff website. Yes there are free websites like OfficialPokerRankings that provide good information. Bluff just is laid out slightly better and the info seems a little bit more complete. After studying my stats, I have a very solid ROI in the $24 and $10 tournaments at FTP. Both in fact are well over 100% and are where I also have the most entries. I’ve lost money in the $69 tournies, although I really want to start playing more of those as the sample size is still small compared to the others and I feel that the level of play isn’t all THAT more difficult. I’m solidly in the black at the $500 level as well, although there’s only 3 entries there and my 38th in the FTOPs VI Main Event explains that :)

For some reason I actually have not done great overall in the peeps, especially lately. I think the level of play has improved greatly overall, with about half the field knowing what they’re doing. That leaves you about 2-3 short of the token when it becomes a pushfest. I don’t care for that and it’s not saving me a bunch of dollars by playing them. So I will continue to mostly just buy in directly at the $24 level and save my token time for the level 2 ones for the $69 tokens.

Oh, and a big congrats to Chad on his taking down the $26k guarantee on FullTilt. The dude has been on an absolute tear lately in the $24 guarantees lately. I can only hope that I can emulate his results now that I’ve got my game back on track.