Well, the 50k guarantee on Full Tilt was tonight. My prior post mentioned that I won my $109 seat by winning a $4 satellite the other day. Tonight there were 808 players. I finished 18th (that’s me…RogerKDodger) to take down $404…not bad for a $4 investment but not nearly what I was striving for. I got about 5 good hands all night, so I was stealing blinds and antes to build a stack. A couple of key double ups kept me in the average stack territory. In the end, my all in with AJ was not enough against AQ. It is really satisfying to go deep in a big tourney like this, albeit disappointing to miss out on the big payout.
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I have been playing limit holdem exclusively and my win rate, well, you would not believe my BB/Hr if I told you, so I won’t. Last time I told somebody on PocketFives.com or Two plus Two or wherever it was, well, they flamed me pretty good. All I can say is Preflop50 works! Click here for the FREE PDF download…you will thank me! I also won’t tell you where I play Limit Holdem, because I don’t want you showing up there armed with the Preflop50 system and rocking my boat.
Since Preflop50 is only for limit cash games, I don’t mind telling you that I sometimes go to Full Tilt for NL tournament play. I played a little $4 satellite on Full Tilt tonight, eighty players. Top two win a seat at the $50k guarantee next Saturday evening (seat is worth $109). I won! That’s me…RogerKDodger, my screen name on Full Tilt. It would be nice to turn $4 into $12,500. We will see. Check back and I will let you know how I fare.
Lately, I have noticed that spades and clubs look alot alike. Hearts and diamonds, no problem. But a quick glance at the board just won’t cut it when the cards have black splotches on them anymore (that’s what spades and clubs are now, splotches). I need glasses.
Or maybe it’s more than that, because my latest misstep really can’t be blamed on poor vision. Saturday evening I played in one of the Full Tilt Poker freeroll WSOP qualifying tourneys. With 1800 players, I was in 9th place late in the tourney (less than 175 players remaining). All I had to do was make the top 36 to make it to the next qualifier.
Between hands I looked up exactly when that next qualifying tourney was, and I was disappointed to find out that I would be on the road driving back from business in New Orleans when that tourney was scheduled the next weekend. Darn! At that point, I didn’t give up, but I have to say I wasn’t too concerned anymore about making the cutoff (top 36), so I shifted gears and decided to accumulate chips.
In front of me, another player with a big stack (bigger than mine) who had been raising all in way too often with Ace-x raised all in again, so my pocket fives looked good, and I call. I was right, she had Ace 9 offsuit. My fives stayed good until she hit her ace on the river, and I am out after besting about 1790 other players for a few hours. I would not have made that move with pocket fives at this point in the tourney if I wanted to maintain my good chance of making top 36 and advancing. But, I can’t play the next tourney anyway, right?
Well, not exactly. The problem is that I had misread the schedule for the next qualifier, and I wasn’t going to be traveling when it was scheduled after all. In fact, I was going to be parked in a New Orleans hotel room that particular evening, with all the time in the world available to me to play in the next level qualifier tourney, with a chance at $12,000 WSOP package, for FREE.
So, if that goof wasn’t due to poor vision, to what can I attribute it? What am I st..st..st..stupid or something? Glasses don’t fix that, do they?
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