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rnbsalsa88 United States. Apr 18 2007 02:50. Posts 821

I qualified for the Full Tilt 750K guaranteed on Saturday night. I hadn’t planned on committing my day to poker but I woke up and lo and behold I wake up and we’re in the middle of a Noreaster. Oh well I guess I have to play poker all day. In the morning I had a few goals, load up a decent number of tables and qualify for the $650 WSOP qualifier. I entered tons of satellites for it and every $20+ mtt that looked good. Pretty soon I had up about 18 tables, a bit more than I had bargained for. I went deep in a bunch of the qualifiers without a score losing $80 sngs over and over again can get expensive. The $24 6 max double shootouts offer great value- and I eventually luck it up and win one.

I had a weird hand in the Sunday warm-up that I’m really not sure about. Probably bad.... you decide. I have 9600 (10K starting stacks) we’re relatively early in the tournament. Blinds 75/150 there are 3 limpers including the sb, I check. Pot 600. Flop is 256 off suit, it checks around. Turn is a 3 giving me the straight putting a spade draw on the board. I lead out for the pot and get min-raised. OK, first hard decision... The stacks are such that a push is a pretty big overbet- I’m not getting a 4 to fold... ever, and I get all worse hands to fold. But... it protects my hand and likely takes down the pot/ chops against the straight. A problem with this though is that the straight could also be drawing to a flush draw as well or have outs to a larger straight. If I reraise I have to call if he gets it in against me but it gives me value against a set/flush draw. Decisions, decisions. I decide to flat call and evaluate on the river. Ok, here comes the fun part. River is a 2. I check, and he bets 3100 into the 3000 pot. My thoughts- he probably would not bet a 4 like this. I think he likely has 74/ missed draw/ or a boat. If I shove he should be folding 74, like he has to... Opponent is an unknown so I think here is where the logic goes wrong, but in a $200 tourney most players are capable of making this fold. Also if he was betting the 4 he has to fold. I think raising all in/ folding here are both preferable to calling. I shoved, he calls 55... Doh

No big deal... I end up getting 2nd in a $24 tournament on Full Tilt for $1900. I was heads up against this absolute donkey. He asked for a deal at the start and I laughed. I came in with like 450,000 chips versus his 300,000. He was a passi-fish. I’m whittling him away and after like 6 minutes of play he shoves for 270K into my big blind I insta-call AJ, his K7 hits 2 pair. I battle back for a long time, I get chiplead again. He shoves into my big blind which 30,000 I call AK he shows A8, spikes the 8 obviously. Battle back eventually I shove over a limp of his where he had QQ I don’t suckout. Oh well.

Now its time for the majors. I enter the Sunday Million, Sunday Second Chance, Sunday Mulligan (all $200+15's), the $500+35 750K Guaranteed, and the $615+35 WSOP qualifier. I Bust out of the Sunday Million pretty early, bust in the 750K, cash in the Second chance but not for much... And I end up very deep in the WSOP qualifier and the Sunday Mulligan. I made some huge comebacks. In the mulligan I had a really nice stack of around 15K, lost an all in and was down to like 2500 I get back up to like 12K, lose an all in again, down to 1500. I again comeback and catapult my stack up. In the WSOP tourney I got very few cards the whole tourney but the structure is amazing, blinds change every 30 minutes. I was short the whole time. From 36-47 got their entry back, and top 35 got 12K packages. So I’m in 2nd place out of 16 in the Sunday mulligan (30K for first) and like 43/44 in the WSOP tourney, and there is blackness all around me. Fucking power.... The storm knocked it out. I call up Andrew who was very deep in the 750K guaranteed and explain the situation to him. He takes over the $650, and gets a buddy to hop in the mulligan. I get power back an hour and 15 minutes later. I run downstairs, turn on my computer and call Andrew. The bad news... Andrew busted 37th in the WSOP satellite. Fuck... But, Paul - Andrew’s buddy got 4th in the Mulligan for $10,500.

Andrew ended up busting 23rd in the 750K guaranteed for 3500. I paid Paul a tip for coming through in the clutch, and played some heads up cash before going to bed. All in all, ended up 14K on the night. Holla

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United States. Apr 18 2007 05:24. Posts 7472

crazy day
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ggplz Sweden. Apr 18 2007 07:30. Posts 16784

if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN