I'll quickly start by updating the last No Limit Qualifier. Basically, I ran into a crazy Russian and a guy who knew he had him beat but totally forgot about me. I raised to 90 with aces, the crazy Russian (who had been raising and re-raising every pot) shoved all-in, a guy behind him shipped all-in, and I snapped call. The board runs out JT987. Crazy Russian has K5o, guy behind has AQ, and my aces are left in dust. Isn't poker fun?
The WBCOOP was really disappointing. I finished 254 out of 369 which is terrible. I basically played about as well as I could in the first hour and a half and then ran into a guy trying to give away his chips with the best hand (I'll explain in a bit). I eventually bluffed of my chips in my bustout hand and it was goodbye, see you next year for me! I'll give you guys and interesting hand, the idiot hand, and my idiot hand and then that will be the official closing of WBCOOP 2008 for me.
Blinds: 15/30 Stacks: Me- 5445 Villain- 4030
My Hand: AhKc
Villain raises to 90 and I just flat call. I do this for a few reasons. I don't really want to play a huge pot this deep and this early in the tournament. Also, I can either outplay my opponent or dump the hand if I miss.
Flop: 8s 3h 2h
Villain bets 150 and I float and call. I know the villain doesn't have the nut flush draw and I have backdoor hearts and most likely the best hand.
Turn: Kd Board: 8s 3h 2h Kd
Villain bets 420 and I call again. I'm pretty sure I have the best hand, but I don't want to raise and then get shoved on since I can only bet bluffs in that spot or maybe if he goes crazy with Kx but that isn't likely.
River: Js Board: 8s 3h 2h Kd Js
Villain checks and I bet 655. Villain folds! This is a pretty easy value bet. If villain has a set, KJ, and most likely any other 2 pair he is going to be betting this river, so it's an easy value bet here.
This next hand was where it started to head downhill. It's so sick that he just tried to give away his chips to me and actually thought he was drawing dead when he called.
Blinds: 50/100 ante 10 Stacks: Me- 5880 Villain- 2370
My hand: AsQh
Villain min raises to 200 and I just call. I probably should have 3-bet/called, but this should have worked out better. It didn't!
Flop: Tc 5h 4h
Villain bets 300 and I float just because I thought he had nothing.
Turn: Td Board: Tc 5h 4h Td
Villain bets 500 with 1400 behind. I was almost sure he had a big air ball and I raise to put him in. He does the whole gg shit and calls with Ace-King high. Yes, that's right Ace-King high. The river bricks and I lose a big portion of my chips. After the hand:
AlexFSK said, "indeed, i had too"
AlexFSK said, "lol i rly had him on a set haha"
Is he really that big of an idiot to call off all his chips thinking he was drawing dead? Can I really be mad if I make him think I have trip tens and then he calls off his chips like that? That is really frustrating. It was all downhill from there.
No fancy hand display for this one. Basically, I raised with KQs from utg with like 28 big blinds and got 2 calls. The flop came low cards and I c-bet and got one caller. I really thought he had like ace high and a gut shot and would flop if I check-raised him. I checked and he really under bet the pot which is really strong or really weak. In this case, it turned out to be really strong as he flipped over a set and had me drawing dead. Good game me!
I thought overall I played really well in the WBCOOP series. It's really frustrating to have the series end the way it did especially since I almost never put my tournament life on the line drawing dead. I know I'll bounce back from this defeat and make a big leap into 2009. The positive from WBCOOP is that I won two Step 3 tickets which I'm hopefully going to turn into two Step 4 tickets. If I win a step 4 ticket, that ticket is most likely going towards the Sunday Million or possibly a SCOOP event. Overall WBCOOP Grade: B-.
The whole next week I'm basically going to be taking it easy. That means no poker until next weekend. The Holiday tournaments on Full Tilt and Guinness World Records event on Poker Stars will bring me back to the felt. Hopefully, I can do well in those. I might try my Step 3's as the Sunday Million is a 2.5 Million Guarantee tournament. I'm still undecided on that decision. Anyways, I want to wish you and yours a very Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. Peace!
WBCOOP Updates
Sorry I haven't been able to update the last couple of days. I've basically been playing the events and then doing other obligations I have. Surprisingly, I have been really busy lately, so I've even had a hard time to find time to play these WBCOOP events. However in the tournaments I have played, I have had some success. These WBCOOP has definitely been fun!
I planned on playing the PL Omaha 8 or Better, but to be honest I feel asleep and missed registration. That tournament was going to be fun, but I'm a little tired buddy who can't stay up to 9pm. I'm joking of course. Oh well, on the the next unlimited hold'em event.
I don't remember to much about this event which means there wasn't to much that was really interesting in the tournament. I finished 130ish out of 550. Blinds at 200/400 50 ante. I had 4400. I pushed with T8s from middle position. There's a few reason I pushed this hand. A weak ace in early/middle position is more likely to be called by a hand that is going to be dominated. I pushed with A3 and get called by AJ, I'm screwed and I'm down to 3 outs. However if I shove T8s in that same spot, I'm only a 60/40 dog and have a legit chance to double up. Now, I'll shove weak aces from late position because I have less people to get through, and I'm also more likely to get called down lighter if I shove from late position. In this hand, I shoved T8s, got called by 9's, and lost the hand. That hand however is a good short stack ninja type of hand.
The next event was the 8 game mix tournament and the tournament I felt the most confident going into the tournament. I finished 15th out of like 450 runners which was a very good accomplishment but very disappointing at the same time. The highlight of the tournament though was playing at the same table as the "King of the Degenerates" Bryan "the Icon" Micon. I'm just kidding about the highlight part, but I was totally at the same table as an ESPN poker superstar.
The first couple of hours was easy. I got a guy to put 55 bbs in pre-flop with QJ against my AK and I held. The very next hand, I flop a wrap and a pair, hit the nut straight on the turn and get my opponent to check call both streets for all his chips with the worse straight possible. From that point on, I was in or near the top 20 for the rest of the tournament.
I really did have a game that I would get all my chips in. I already have one in NLHE and PLO. Of course, I had a very good time in 2-7 Triple Draw, but I also won a lot of chips in games I didn't expect especially stud high which is my worst game.
In the end, it really game down to two hands late in the tournament. First hand was in triple draw.
Blinds: Unknown Stack: Unknown
My hand pre-draw: 8532
A short stacked villain with about 6 bets left raises on the button, I 3-bet with a one draw, and the big blind 4 bets. I draw 1 and brick, bb draws 2, button draws 2.
The short stack gets it in.
I draw to a T8532 on the second draw. Check/check.
This was a tough decision. Only way to improve my hand is four nines/sevens/sixes/fours. I also can pair my hand which isn't good, so I stood on the T8. The short stack hit a T8432 on the last draw and won a big 3 way pot.
I got crippled when I had AQdd on a Q8x 2 diamond board. The other guy had 88 and turned quads. I run good! I won another step 3 ticket, so now I have two step 3 tickets and can hopefully turn those into some $215 tournaments and turn those into some money!
I'm probably going to play the last qualifier today and the final tournament is tomorrow. If you want to rail, its at 2pm central(adjust to your time). I'm hoping to final table this. The structure looks good, so that should benefit me. Run good one time? Good luck and peace!
I planned on playing the PL Omaha 8 or Better, but to be honest I feel asleep and missed registration. That tournament was going to be fun, but I'm a little tired buddy who can't stay up to 9pm. I'm joking of course. Oh well, on the the next unlimited hold'em event.
I don't remember to much about this event which means there wasn't to much that was really interesting in the tournament. I finished 130ish out of 550. Blinds at 200/400 50 ante. I had 4400. I pushed with T8s from middle position. There's a few reason I pushed this hand. A weak ace in early/middle position is more likely to be called by a hand that is going to be dominated. I pushed with A3 and get called by AJ, I'm screwed and I'm down to 3 outs. However if I shove T8s in that same spot, I'm only a 60/40 dog and have a legit chance to double up. Now, I'll shove weak aces from late position because I have less people to get through, and I'm also more likely to get called down lighter if I shove from late position. In this hand, I shoved T8s, got called by 9's, and lost the hand. That hand however is a good short stack ninja type of hand.
The next event was the 8 game mix tournament and the tournament I felt the most confident going into the tournament. I finished 15th out of like 450 runners which was a very good accomplishment but very disappointing at the same time. The highlight of the tournament though was playing at the same table as the "King of the Degenerates" Bryan "the Icon" Micon. I'm just kidding about the highlight part, but I was totally at the same table as an ESPN poker superstar.
The first couple of hours was easy. I got a guy to put 55 bbs in pre-flop with QJ against my AK and I held. The very next hand, I flop a wrap and a pair, hit the nut straight on the turn and get my opponent to check call both streets for all his chips with the worse straight possible. From that point on, I was in or near the top 20 for the rest of the tournament.
I really did have a game that I would get all my chips in. I already have one in NLHE and PLO. Of course, I had a very good time in 2-7 Triple Draw, but I also won a lot of chips in games I didn't expect especially stud high which is my worst game.
In the end, it really game down to two hands late in the tournament. First hand was in triple draw.
Blinds: Unknown Stack: Unknown
My hand pre-draw: 8532
A short stacked villain with about 6 bets left raises on the button, I 3-bet with a one draw, and the big blind 4 bets. I draw 1 and brick, bb draws 2, button draws 2.
The short stack gets it in.
I draw to a T8532 on the second draw. Check/check.
This was a tough decision. Only way to improve my hand is four nines/sevens/sixes/fours. I also can pair my hand which isn't good, so I stood on the T8. The short stack hit a T8432 on the last draw and won a big 3 way pot.
I got crippled when I had AQdd on a Q8x 2 diamond board. The other guy had 88 and turned quads. I run good! I won another step 3 ticket, so now I have two step 3 tickets and can hopefully turn those into some $215 tournaments and turn those into some money!
I'm probably going to play the last qualifier today and the final tournament is tomorrow. If you want to rail, its at 2pm central(adjust to your time). I'm hoping to final table this. The structure looks good, so that should benefit me. Run good one time? Good luck and peace!
WBCOOP NL Hold'em
This event was short and sweet even though I won 2 races to double in one hour. I flopped trips with 29o when it was called and I checked in the big blind and won a small pot there. I lost a pot when I had 97s in a 5 way limped pot and a guy stacked off 85 big blinds with K9 on a 973 board and rivered a king. I won a race with queens before that hand and won a race with jacks after this hand. I later busted in an interesting hand that I may have misplayed but I'm not really sure right now. I finished like 300ish out of 550(or around there) runners.
The play in the omaha tournament was lightyears ahead of the play in this event. It may be that this is hold'em and almost everyone is either extremely good or extremely bad. Hold'em is such an interesting game. It's had to be as bad as some people, but they really are that bad! I mean the play in this event wasn't terrible, but it was pretty bad. Too bad I can't dodge people bluffing with air. On to the hand:
Blinds: 40/80 Stacks: Me-4210 Villain-4595 Button-3k
Villain limps utg and I raise to 290 from utg+2, button calls, blinds fold, and villain calls. The villain in this hand is kind of spewy. A few hands earlier, they bluffed 3 streets with ten high no draw.
Flop: T52 raibow (990 pot)
Villain checks, I bet 420, button folds and villain checks raises to 960. The thing here is I'm almost always being called by a hand that beats me in this spot except a Tx hand. I'm almost sure he raises AT pre, maybe even KT, so i basically put him on air and called to let him bluff the turn.
Turn: Q Board: T52Q
Villain bets 1720. It's such a sick spot cuse I basically put him on QT or air on the flop which air includes Qx hands. I went with my intial read and ship the rest and he snapped with KQo. I brick river and I'm out.
I'm not really sure if I play this right. I think I might be able to fold the turn with 28 big blinds left (last hand of this level), but air is a big part of this range. It's really interesting and I was right he had air. His flop line screams air and he got lucky and I'm starting to think I played the flop fine. It may have been a mistake to try and get him to fire another barrel on the turn, but I think I could have gotten good value if he doesn't hit. Although, I could have just won the hand on the flop. Maybe I should have tried to get extra value. Not really sure!
Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better is tomorrow and I'm excited for this one. In the little bit of PLO8 I have played, I have done really well. I'm assuming most people are terrible at PLO8 and the field with be smaller and really soft. It's a late night event so check Thursday morning for the next update. Peace!
The play in the omaha tournament was lightyears ahead of the play in this event. It may be that this is hold'em and almost everyone is either extremely good or extremely bad. Hold'em is such an interesting game. It's had to be as bad as some people, but they really are that bad! I mean the play in this event wasn't terrible, but it was pretty bad. Too bad I can't dodge people bluffing with air. On to the hand:
Blinds: 40/80 Stacks: Me-4210 Villain-4595 Button-3k
Villain limps utg and I raise to 290 from utg+2, button calls, blinds fold, and villain calls. The villain in this hand is kind of spewy. A few hands earlier, they bluffed 3 streets with ten high no draw.
Flop: T52 raibow (990 pot)
Villain checks, I bet 420, button folds and villain checks raises to 960. The thing here is I'm almost always being called by a hand that beats me in this spot except a Tx hand. I'm almost sure he raises AT pre, maybe even KT, so i basically put him on air and called to let him bluff the turn.
Turn: Q Board: T52Q
Villain bets 1720. It's such a sick spot cuse I basically put him on QT or air on the flop which air includes Qx hands. I went with my intial read and ship the rest and he snapped with KQo. I brick river and I'm out.
I'm not really sure if I play this right. I think I might be able to fold the turn with 28 big blinds left (last hand of this level), but air is a big part of this range. It's really interesting and I was right he had air. His flop line screams air and he got lucky and I'm starting to think I played the flop fine. It may have been a mistake to try and get him to fire another barrel on the turn, but I think I could have gotten good value if he doesn't hit. Although, I could have just won the hand on the flop. Maybe I should have tried to get extra value. Not really sure!
Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better is tomorrow and I'm excited for this one. In the little bit of PLO8 I have played, I have done really well. I'm assuming most people are terrible at PLO8 and the field with be smaller and really soft. It's a late night event so check Thursday morning for the next update. Peace!
WBCOOP Omahahaha
Goal number one in the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is accomplished. I finished 16th out of 450 runners earning myself entry into the WBCOOP and a Step 3 ticket ($82). The play overall was a whole lot better than I expected. Maybe I only found the good tables or something, but I think there was a lot of good play in the tournament. I thought I played extremely well, got lucky at the right times, and only missed played one maybe two hands which I'll talk about later. This tournament was really interesting and had an extremely interesting situation that is unique to this type of tournament series. I really enjoyed playing and am happy to have accomplished the goal in a game I don't play very much (Full Ring Omaha! I play a lot of 6 max but there are kind of different!)I'm going to talk about a couple interesting hands and then talk about the unique situation in the tournament.
Blinds: 150/300 Stacks: Me- 7905 Villain- 6k
My hand: KQ92 double suited.
Villain opened from the button to 1050 (pot). I probably should have folded but I though that if I hit a huge pot, I would have a huge stack at the time and be able to bully the bubble that's coming up soon.
Flop: Q33 rainbow
I decided to check. Villain bets pot (2250) leaving 2810 behind. The bet look really scared. There was no way that the villain had a 3. He never, ever has a 3! I tanked a little bit and basically was hoping he potted it with like an AKxx type hand and would fold. I shipped and he snapped off with AAxx.
I basically got lucky after that doubled up a couple times then blinded down on the bubble. After the bubble burst, I got into a situation with blinds at 750/1250 where there was a raise/re-raise/re-re-raise and I had JJTT and a chance to quadruple up. I hit a ten ball and went from 5k to 22k. Lots of little hands here and there and was up to 70k.
Blinds: 1.5k/3k Stacks: Me- 70k Villain- 96k Short Stack Idiot-16k
My hand: AdKcJd7c
I open from mid position to 7175. SSI calls and villain calls on the button.
Flop: QT3 rainbow
I flop a semi-wrap. I check which is where i make my mistake. SSI checks and villain pots it for 26k. I have at most 13 outs (3 aces, 3 kings, 3 jacks, and 4 nines). If the villain in the hand has KQJx, we are drawing really thin. I probably should have lead the flop and hoped for a fold. I gave up control and the villain punished me for it. I think I may have been able to check/raise and got a fold but it's really doubtful. I think I was either going to lose all my chips or win a bunch. I probably took the safest route which is probably not the most +ev play, but i felt it was at the time. I ended up finishing 16th which is a huge start to the WBCOOP series.
This tournament was very unique in that it is a satellite to the WBCOOP Final, but it also has prizes for finishing good in the tournament. Near the bubble, I basically gave up a lot of equity by blinding myself down in order to qualify for the final. The thing is I gain a lot of equity in the other tournaments before the final. I have already qualified for the final so I don't have to worry about limping into the money in the other qualifying tournaments.
By blinding down and losing equity when I normally would have pushed way earlier, I have gained equity in the next 5 tournaments. I can now take risks and rape the bubble as I can't qualify for the Final again in order to gain lots of chips and get to a final table to earn more tickets and prizes.
I thought this was unique because I almost never blinded myself down to 3-4 blinds. You lose equity doing such a thing, but in this case I'm gain equity too. It's really a confusing thing even though it's simple and I don't know if a lot of people knew what they were doing or if they will take advantage of already being qualified in the future.
Thanks for reading. Be sure to catch up tomorrow as I blog about the 1st of 3 No Limit Hold'em WBCOOP events! Good luck and run good! Peace!
Blinds: 150/300 Stacks: Me- 7905 Villain- 6k
My hand: KQ92 double suited.
Villain opened from the button to 1050 (pot). I probably should have folded but I though that if I hit a huge pot, I would have a huge stack at the time and be able to bully the bubble that's coming up soon.
Flop: Q33 rainbow
I decided to check. Villain bets pot (2250) leaving 2810 behind. The bet look really scared. There was no way that the villain had a 3. He never, ever has a 3! I tanked a little bit and basically was hoping he potted it with like an AKxx type hand and would fold. I shipped and he snapped off with AAxx.
I basically got lucky after that doubled up a couple times then blinded down on the bubble. After the bubble burst, I got into a situation with blinds at 750/1250 where there was a raise/re-raise/re-re-raise and I had JJTT and a chance to quadruple up. I hit a ten ball and went from 5k to 22k. Lots of little hands here and there and was up to 70k.
Blinds: 1.5k/3k Stacks: Me- 70k Villain- 96k Short Stack Idiot-16k
My hand: AdKcJd7c
I open from mid position to 7175. SSI calls and villain calls on the button.
Flop: QT3 rainbow
I flop a semi-wrap. I check which is where i make my mistake. SSI checks and villain pots it for 26k. I have at most 13 outs (3 aces, 3 kings, 3 jacks, and 4 nines). If the villain in the hand has KQJx, we are drawing really thin. I probably should have lead the flop and hoped for a fold. I gave up control and the villain punished me for it. I think I may have been able to check/raise and got a fold but it's really doubtful. I think I was either going to lose all my chips or win a bunch. I probably took the safest route which is probably not the most +ev play, but i felt it was at the time. I ended up finishing 16th which is a huge start to the WBCOOP series.
This tournament was very unique in that it is a satellite to the WBCOOP Final, but it also has prizes for finishing good in the tournament. Near the bubble, I basically gave up a lot of equity by blinding myself down in order to qualify for the final. The thing is I gain a lot of equity in the other tournaments before the final. I have already qualified for the final so I don't have to worry about limping into the money in the other qualifying tournaments.
By blinding down and losing equity when I normally would have pushed way earlier, I have gained equity in the next 5 tournaments. I can now take risks and rape the bubble as I can't qualify for the Final again in order to gain lots of chips and get to a final table to earn more tickets and prizes.
I thought this was unique because I almost never blinded myself down to 3-4 blinds. You lose equity doing such a thing, but in this case I'm gain equity too. It's really a confusing thing even though it's simple and I don't know if a lot of people knew what they were doing or if they will take advantage of already being qualified in the future.
Thanks for reading. Be sure to catch up tomorrow as I blog about the 1st of 3 No Limit Hold'em WBCOOP events! Good luck and run good! Peace!
In With The New
As you can see, I've done a little overhaul of the layout of the blog. I was getting tired of the green, so I put this one up. I'm liking it right now, but I'm not sure if I'll hate it tomorrow. We are kind of in an experimental phase in the layout of the blog. Anyways, if you find any color scheme problems, bad links, or some other problem, let me know. Also, if you have a layout you would like me to use give me a little buzz. I'm likin' the red right now though.
I haven't play much poker lately as excepted. I did however play a little bit of Chinese Poker with some friends of mine. I really hate taking money from my friends but they insisted that we play. I ended up like $200 playing $5 a point. I definitely ran like god, but it seemed like I hit about a billion huge 3 hand hands. It was really sick. I think I hit 3 straights 4 times. I definitely hope to continue to run this well into the new year. It's going to be the mixed games(Chinese, 2-7 single/triple, badugi, badeucy, HORSE, etc.) where I will make some money since I have a lot more experience in the games. No Limit Hold'em is getting so tough now. The average player is much better than the average player in a badugi game which is why I will be playing a lot more in the mixed game arena.
Sadly, my Missouri Tigers didn't but up the performance we were capable of in the Big 12 Championship game and got our asses handed to us. Tailgating was most definitely fun even though it was cold as shit! We end up in the Alamo Bowl against Northwestern which is a huge disappointment. At the beginning of the year, we were hoping for a National Championship. I know I didn't expect to be making an Alamo Bowl appearance. Although, I expect our seniors to go out in style with a huge day in San Antonio with a massacre of Northwestern. I guess there's always basketball right? (Top 4 in Big 12 and Sweet 16 appearance in my opinion).
This coming week, I will be having a daily update on the WBCOOP on stars. I think I will be be doing a short couple paragraph summary on the same blog so you can read each day as we go. If I shall make the final of the WBCOOP, I will make that its on blog and do a report similar to the MSOP updates that you can find in the archives. Also, Poker Stars keeps pulling me in. They added a $10+1 $500k guarantee tournament. A Guiness World Record attempt so to speak! They are also capping it at 35k, so there will be a $150k overlay. Talk about being a +ev tournament! Ship it one time Lee!
That's it for now. Be sure to keep up with my WBCOOP updates this coming week. Thanks and run like god! Peace!
I haven't play much poker lately as excepted. I did however play a little bit of Chinese Poker with some friends of mine. I really hate taking money from my friends but they insisted that we play. I ended up like $200 playing $5 a point. I definitely ran like god, but it seemed like I hit about a billion huge 3 hand hands. It was really sick. I think I hit 3 straights 4 times. I definitely hope to continue to run this well into the new year. It's going to be the mixed games(Chinese, 2-7 single/triple, badugi, badeucy, HORSE, etc.) where I will make some money since I have a lot more experience in the games. No Limit Hold'em is getting so tough now. The average player is much better than the average player in a badugi game which is why I will be playing a lot more in the mixed game arena.
Sadly, my Missouri Tigers didn't but up the performance we were capable of in the Big 12 Championship game and got our asses handed to us. Tailgating was most definitely fun even though it was cold as shit! We end up in the Alamo Bowl against Northwestern which is a huge disappointment. At the beginning of the year, we were hoping for a National Championship. I know I didn't expect to be making an Alamo Bowl appearance. Although, I expect our seniors to go out in style with a huge day in San Antonio with a massacre of Northwestern. I guess there's always basketball right? (Top 4 in Big 12 and Sweet 16 appearance in my opinion).
This coming week, I will be having a daily update on the WBCOOP on stars. I think I will be be doing a short couple paragraph summary on the same blog so you can read each day as we go. If I shall make the final of the WBCOOP, I will make that its on blog and do a report similar to the MSOP updates that you can find in the archives. Also, Poker Stars keeps pulling me in. They added a $10+1 $500k guarantee tournament. A Guiness World Record attempt so to speak! They are also capping it at 35k, so there will be a $150k overlay. Talk about being a +ev tournament! Ship it one time Lee!
That's it for now. Be sure to keep up with my WBCOOP updates this coming week. Thanks and run like god! Peace!
WBCOOP, High Stakes, and Mizzou!!!
I'm in one of those writing moods again, so I'm going to write another blog here. I'm also almost finished with an article for FlushDraw.org. I would really appreciate it if you guys swing by there and check things out. It's a little dead right now, but with a little bit from the old and some new people it will be running again! Anyways, the point of this blog is to talk about the upcoming WBCOOP, some high stakes poker action I recently witnessed, and my beloved Missouri Tigers.
I received my ticket(s) to the WBCOOP events. I'm really excited about these series of events as stated in my pervious blog. The schedule has a good mixture of games in which I believe I'm +ev in each. I'm really excited for the 8-game mix tournament just because I don't get to play very many of this type of tournament since there are not many available. If there is any tournament that I will finish in the top 72, it is definetly that one. It's always nice to play 2-7 triple draw against inexperinced players. That's probably the most exciting part of the 8-game mix. I'm going to be doing a report of each event I play (kind of like the MSOPs). I plan on playing each event, but I'm not sure. Last year's event got around 1300 people for the one event, so I'm sure the number in these freerolls will be about the same. The schedule is below if you want to follow my progress live or you can read my blog for updates after I have busted (or won) each event! Schedule and Prizes below:
Freeroll Qualifiers
The daily Freerolls run from December 15-20 2008, in a range of different poker games. See below for more details and prize information. You can find these events listed in the PokerStars lobby, under the 'Events' and 'Special' tab.
Game Date Time
Pot Limit Omaha December 15 14:00 ET
No Limit Hold’em December 16 19:00 ET
Omaha Hi/Lo December 17 22:00 ET
No Limit Hold’em December 18 14:00 ET
8-Game Mix December 19 17:00 ET
No Limit Hold’em December 20 15:00 ET
Places Freeroll Qualifiers - Prizes Awarded
1st WBCOOP Final seat + Sunday Majors Platinum Package*
2nd-9th WBCOOP Final seat + Sunday Majors Gold Package**
10th-27th WBCOOP Final seat + Step 3 Ticket
28th-45th WBCOOP Final seat + Step 2 Ticket
46th-72nd WBCOOP Final seat
* A Sunday Majors Platinum Package consists of 3 x $215 tournament tickets, 1 x $530 tournament ticket and 1 x $11 tournament ticket.
**A Sunday Majors Gold Package consists of 2 x $215 tournament tickets.
The WBCOOP Final
The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker Final takes place Sunday December 21, at 15:00 ET.
Prizes
Places WBCOOP Final - Prizes Awarded
1st PokerStars Caribbean Adventure prize package - worth $14,300
2nd European Poker Tour± prize package + SCOOP‡ Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $11,100
3rd European Poker Tour± prize package - worth $7,500
4th SCOOP Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $3,675
5th Step 6 ticket - worth $2,100
6th SCOOP Main Event ticket - worth $1,575
7th $1,050 Tournament entry
8th Step 5 ticket
9th $530 Tournament entry
10th-18th $320 Tournament entry
19th-27th $215 Tournament entry
28th-45th $109 Tournament entry
46th-100th Step 3 ticket
The high stakes games on Full Tilt have been running like crazy recently, and I'm just amazed at the kind of money these players are throwing around. I mean durrrr loses almost 1 million one day, then he wins 1.1 million yesterday. It's just sick some of the swings involved in the nosebleed games! I posted some hands from yesterday's session in this thread, http://www.flushdraw.org/forums/showthread.php?t=183. I mean there's so many coolers out there where one can go from zero to hero or just one card can mean the difference between being up 500k and being a loser! All these individuals (even the shortstackers) are sick in the head! As I write this Phil Galfond (OMGClayAiken) has almost 1 million on the table. I know it's only 10 buy-ins but its still a sick ammount of money! By the way, Durrr is a beast. I can see why he has the potential to be the best no-limit hold'em player in the world. Watching a game where the shortest stack was 150 big blinds, and him just dominating it was sick! Durrrr is my hero!!!!
A little of poekr topic, but its my blog so deal! Tomorrow is the Big 12 Championship! My beloved Missouri Tigers take on Oklahoma! After last weeks disappointment in losing to a team we should have blow out, added to the fact that we are the 4th/5th best team in the Big 12 and get all this pressure from the media that we don't belong is putting a shitload of pressure on us! On the flipside, we have nothing to lose! Fiesta Bowl or bust! Oklahoma has everything to lose, however! Plus Oklahoma knocked us out of last year's National Championship, so we would love nothing more than to do the same to them this year. I'll predict an upset 51 to 42! Chase is going to have a big day (finally!) against the sooners.
On a realted noted, I'll be out in the cold Missouri air before the game tailgating! It sucks I don't have tickets, but there is nothing better than tailgating at Arrowhead. I might post some pictures of the atmosphere if I remember to, but I'll probably be to amped to remember! Should be fun! M-I-Z...Z-O-U!
*Quick Edit*
My boy Pacman is going to knock out De La Hoya! Yep, yep, yep! That's how's it's going to be! Pacquiao TKO in 9! It's going to be a good Saturday! Peace!
I received my ticket(s) to the WBCOOP events. I'm really excited about these series of events as stated in my pervious blog. The schedule has a good mixture of games in which I believe I'm +ev in each. I'm really excited for the 8-game mix tournament just because I don't get to play very many of this type of tournament since there are not many available. If there is any tournament that I will finish in the top 72, it is definetly that one. It's always nice to play 2-7 triple draw against inexperinced players. That's probably the most exciting part of the 8-game mix. I'm going to be doing a report of each event I play (kind of like the MSOPs). I plan on playing each event, but I'm not sure. Last year's event got around 1300 people for the one event, so I'm sure the number in these freerolls will be about the same. The schedule is below if you want to follow my progress live or you can read my blog for updates after I have busted (or won) each event! Schedule and Prizes below:
Freeroll Qualifiers
The daily Freerolls run from December 15-20 2008, in a range of different poker games. See below for more details and prize information. You can find these events listed in the PokerStars lobby, under the 'Events' and 'Special' tab.
Game Date Time
Pot Limit Omaha December 15 14:00 ET
No Limit Hold’em December 16 19:00 ET
Omaha Hi/Lo December 17 22:00 ET
No Limit Hold’em December 18 14:00 ET
8-Game Mix December 19 17:00 ET
No Limit Hold’em December 20 15:00 ET
Places Freeroll Qualifiers - Prizes Awarded
1st WBCOOP Final seat + Sunday Majors Platinum Package*
2nd-9th WBCOOP Final seat + Sunday Majors Gold Package**
10th-27th WBCOOP Final seat + Step 3 Ticket
28th-45th WBCOOP Final seat + Step 2 Ticket
46th-72nd WBCOOP Final seat
* A Sunday Majors Platinum Package consists of 3 x $215 tournament tickets, 1 x $530 tournament ticket and 1 x $11 tournament ticket.
**A Sunday Majors Gold Package consists of 2 x $215 tournament tickets.
The WBCOOP Final
The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker Final takes place Sunday December 21, at 15:00 ET.
Prizes
Places WBCOOP Final - Prizes Awarded
1st PokerStars Caribbean Adventure prize package - worth $14,300
2nd European Poker Tour± prize package + SCOOP‡ Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $11,100
3rd European Poker Tour± prize package - worth $7,500
4th SCOOP Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $3,675
5th Step 6 ticket - worth $2,100
6th SCOOP Main Event ticket - worth $1,575
7th $1,050 Tournament entry
8th Step 5 ticket
9th $530 Tournament entry
10th-18th $320 Tournament entry
19th-27th $215 Tournament entry
28th-45th $109 Tournament entry
46th-100th Step 3 ticket
The high stakes games on Full Tilt have been running like crazy recently, and I'm just amazed at the kind of money these players are throwing around. I mean durrrr loses almost 1 million one day, then he wins 1.1 million yesterday. It's just sick some of the swings involved in the nosebleed games! I posted some hands from yesterday's session in this thread, http://www.flushdraw.org/forums/showthread.php?t=183. I mean there's so many coolers out there where one can go from zero to hero or just one card can mean the difference between being up 500k and being a loser! All these individuals (even the shortstackers) are sick in the head! As I write this Phil Galfond (OMGClayAiken) has almost 1 million on the table. I know it's only 10 buy-ins but its still a sick ammount of money! By the way, Durrr is a beast. I can see why he has the potential to be the best no-limit hold'em player in the world. Watching a game where the shortest stack was 150 big blinds, and him just dominating it was sick! Durrrr is my hero!!!!
A little of poekr topic, but its my blog so deal! Tomorrow is the Big 12 Championship! My beloved Missouri Tigers take on Oklahoma! After last weeks disappointment in losing to a team we should have blow out, added to the fact that we are the 4th/5th best team in the Big 12 and get all this pressure from the media that we don't belong is putting a shitload of pressure on us! On the flipside, we have nothing to lose! Fiesta Bowl or bust! Oklahoma has everything to lose, however! Plus Oklahoma knocked us out of last year's National Championship, so we would love nothing more than to do the same to them this year. I'll predict an upset 51 to 42! Chase is going to have a big day (finally!) against the sooners.
On a realted noted, I'll be out in the cold Missouri air before the game tailgating! It sucks I don't have tickets, but there is nothing better than tailgating at Arrowhead. I might post some pictures of the atmosphere if I remember to, but I'll probably be to amped to remember! Should be fun! M-I-Z...Z-O-U!
*Quick Edit*
My boy Pacman is going to knock out De La Hoya! Yep, yep, yep! That's how's it's going to be! Pacquiao TKO in 9! It's going to be a good Saturday! Peace!
New plan of Attack
As you can see, this isn't going to be a carbon copied blog. I think I'm going to make a lot more smaller entries on this site. Entries that I feel apropriate to get out to all the sites I will, or if it's within my bi-monthly post deadline. I think I'm going to want to do a little bit more writing once I start playing again after this holiday break, so I'm going to break the rule I have already set forth and write as much as I like. So ha!
A few quick updates on the December schedule. Full Tilt added a Holiday 100k which entry is 2000 ftps. I'm obviously going to be playing in it since it is a +ev play to play for around 10k for first. Besides the Holiday 100k I'm probably only going to be playing the Double Deuce on Sunday and I'm still a little iffy on that tourney as well. I again bubbled two 26's today (one to an obvious cooler that I'm an idiot to fall into), so I'm going to be taking a break from Full Tilt for a while as I'm down basically a grand since the triumph that was the Midnite Madness.
Also, added to the December schedule is the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (Hi, PokerStars). I really enjoyed playing in last years event, even though I didn't fare as well as I would have liked. The way Stars is running it this year is pretty cool. They are running 6 freeroll tournaments with entry to the Main Event to the top 72 players. Also, in each freeroll they are giving away prizes with the top prize in being like entry to 3 $215 tourneys (basically the warm up, million, and second chance although I'm sure you could enter the million 3 times [different weeks obv]), a $530 entry, and a $11 entry which is pretty awesome. The top prize in the main event is a $14k PCA package. It would definetly be nice to spend a week in the Bahamas before starting school. Also, there's EPT packages, SCOOP Main Event Entries (defeintly excited about this), and entries to steps and regular tournaments on the Stars schedule. Definelty excited about the WBCOOP! I'm kind of curious as to if you can win the packages in the freerolls more than once. It would be pretty awesome to win a bunch of Sunday Million/Warm-up/Second Chance tickets and then just ship the tournament 3 times! I'm definetly excited for the series! (Hi again, Poker Stars!)
Basically the month of December will be me catching up with friends I have neglected the past couple of months, having an awesome Chirstmas and New Year, and playing a couple tournaments on Tilt and the WBCOOP on stars. Even though it's a small schedule, I believe December can give me a giant leap into 2009. I mean I get a good run in the Holiday 100k (basically a freeroll), I have my roll set for a few months on tilt. If I do well in the WBCOOP, I could have a few shots at some steps, maybe a shot at the Sunday Million, even the possibilty of playing an EPT or spending a wonderful week at the PCA. Of course, I could go a big goose egg and I will still be heading into 2009 strong; however, December could be a big jump into where I want to go! All I have to say is "Let me run good many, many times in December, Lee! Please turn off the doom switch! One time, Lee. One time!".
A few quick updates on the December schedule. Full Tilt added a Holiday 100k which entry is 2000 ftps. I'm obviously going to be playing in it since it is a +ev play to play for around 10k for first. Besides the Holiday 100k I'm probably only going to be playing the Double Deuce on Sunday and I'm still a little iffy on that tourney as well. I again bubbled two 26's today (one to an obvious cooler that I'm an idiot to fall into), so I'm going to be taking a break from Full Tilt for a while as I'm down basically a grand since the triumph that was the Midnite Madness.
Also, added to the December schedule is the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (Hi, PokerStars). I really enjoyed playing in last years event, even though I didn't fare as well as I would have liked. The way Stars is running it this year is pretty cool. They are running 6 freeroll tournaments with entry to the Main Event to the top 72 players. Also, in each freeroll they are giving away prizes with the top prize in being like entry to 3 $215 tourneys (basically the warm up, million, and second chance although I'm sure you could enter the million 3 times [different weeks obv]), a $530 entry, and a $11 entry which is pretty awesome. The top prize in the main event is a $14k PCA package. It would definetly be nice to spend a week in the Bahamas before starting school. Also, there's EPT packages, SCOOP Main Event Entries (defeintly excited about this), and entries to steps and regular tournaments on the Stars schedule. Definelty excited about the WBCOOP! I'm kind of curious as to if you can win the packages in the freerolls more than once. It would be pretty awesome to win a bunch of Sunday Million/Warm-up/Second Chance tickets and then just ship the tournament 3 times! I'm definetly excited for the series! (Hi again, Poker Stars!)
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!
This PokerStars tournament is a No Limit Texas Hold’em event exclusive to Bloggers.
Registration code: 837516
Basically the month of December will be me catching up with friends I have neglected the past couple of months, having an awesome Chirstmas and New Year, and playing a couple tournaments on Tilt and the WBCOOP on stars. Even though it's a small schedule, I believe December can give me a giant leap into 2009. I mean I get a good run in the Holiday 100k (basically a freeroll), I have my roll set for a few months on tilt. If I do well in the WBCOOP, I could have a few shots at some steps, maybe a shot at the Sunday Million, even the possibilty of playing an EPT or spending a wonderful week at the PCA. Of course, I could go a big goose egg and I will still be heading into 2009 strong; however, December could be a big jump into where I want to go! All I have to say is "Let me run good many, many times in December, Lee! Please turn off the doom switch! One time, Lee. One time!".
