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!