1st place $115 buy-in tourney.

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TheHuHu United States. Mar 16 2008 03:43. Posts 4271

LIVE TOURNEY, BITCHES!! The field was about 50+ people and took a total of 5.5 hours to complete but I took home first place with a Jamie Gold chip stack with four other players at the final table. They decided I should take first and they would chop the rest (which was like $660 each) and I took first for $1870. I loved the tournament structure because you start off with 3,500 chips with blinds starting at 25/25 with 20-minute blind raises. A cool thing was top 10 people got paid which was totally different from other casinos where it's literally only top 10% people get paid which sucks if it's a 50-person tourney as well.

What I loved was that after 150/300, it became 150/300 with 25 ante, good shit! Anyways, I was severely discouraged at one point where I was only 10 big blinds strong and looking at huge chip stacks at my table, but I made some disciplined folds and doubled up a few times to come in average at the final table.

I made a pretty gosu call IMO where UTG raises 4x and I call with TT in MP pre-flop, everyone else folds. UTG checks and I bet half pot on a J82 two spade flop and UTG goes all in covering me well enough. I tanked for like five minutes before calling and he had pocket 77s and everyone ooh'd and ahh'd which made me feel like a champ and I was told by the person to my right that I was sweating profusely thinking about it (I had a sweater on and it was hot

). Anyways, this made me chip leader and I just started raising every hand and taking down like 5k dead money in the pot every time. I had so many chips the poker manager dude had to bring me three racks to stack my chips because it was everywhere, which he later gave me bigger denominations for them.

After my experience at these tourneys, I giggle to myself when people start whining and bitching when I raise every hand or I'm "too aggressive." There's only one goal when anyone plays these tournaments and that's to win.

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ggplz Sweden. Mar 16 2008 04:07. Posts 16784

LOL

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

frenchylucky Finland. Mar 16 2008 04:21. Posts 1788

There's only one goal when anyone plays these tournaments and that's to win. so why you chop m8? how many players chop?
good job.

I was playing poker with tarot cards the other night. I got a full house and four people died. WTF...welcome to finland...

ggplz Sweden. Mar 16 2008 04:58. Posts 16784

congrats

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

KwarK United Kingdom. Mar 16 2008 06:12. Posts 1019

Very nice

On March 16 2008 03:21 frenchylucky wrote:
There's only one goal when anyone plays these tournaments and that's to win. so why you chop m8? how many players chop?
good job.

He chopped because they offered a chop where he got first and all the money from first, and they shared the rest.
It's an infinitely plusEV decision for him.

Critterer United Kingdom. Mar 16 2008 10:01. Posts 5337

yea nice chop!

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SemPeR Canada. Mar 19 2008 21:50. Posts 2288

heh. "chop".
Kinda.