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#047 – FTOPS #8 Update A
Rafe Furst headlines – at least for this entry – the contigent of 10 Full Tilt Poker pros in the field of 916 in FTOPS #8, Pot-Limit Hold ‘Em. The prize pool totals $183,200. 153 will be paid. Bottom-dollar is worth $274.80. First place pays $35,009.92. At the first break, there are 692 players remaining, with an average chip stack of just under 4,000. Big stack is nearly 15,000.
Aaron Bartley is the only Full Tilt pro gone from the field. Clonie Gowen was down to 600 early but got it all in with A-Q against A-T and doubled up. She hasn’t been too so far – solid short-stack strategy, and veryt successful for her in the past in navigating these big online fields – and has been complaining about computer troubles.
Rafe Furst was sitting at 2,400 when he played this interesting hand. I was able to ask him a bit about his play:
He was 4th to act, blinds were 30-60. Two players limped in front of him. He limped with K-Q. The button also limped, and both blinds saw the flop. 360 in the pot.
The flop was Qc-8d-8s.
The player before Rafe bet the pot, 360. Rafe called, everyone else folded.
The turn was the four of hearts. The bettor in front of Rafe moved all-in for 819, and Rafe called. The other player had Q-9 and was eliminated as Rafe’s higher kicker held up.
With all those limpers, there was obviously a risk that someone had an eight. I asked Rafe how much worse a hand than K-Q would he have called on the flop and turn. (He had 2,400 in chips at the start, and his betting opponent had about 1/2 that.
Michael Craig (Observer): How much worse a hand could you
have to call with that board, all the limpers?
Dealer: GreenIsGood wins the pot (120)
Michael Craig (Observer): Or is it a “feel” thing, not tied to a
partic hand?
Rafe Furst: not much worse than KQ
Rafe Furst: if there was a raise before or after me i’m likely
gone.
Michael Craig (Observer): Right, I assumed it would be
difficult calling more than that (or with deeper stacks) with
less of a hand than KQ. Thanks.
I’ve got about 2,700 at the break. I was slowly moving up with good value bets in marginal situations. Then I decided to boss the table, which cost me about 1,400 chips. A fool and his money are lucky to get together in the first place.
AlanRubin81 won my Headline Challenge from Entry #045 (where I stole five of my seven headlines from last night’s updates). The answer, of course, was Hamlet. Now if someone on the rail asks me for five bucks – and several people did when it looked like I was going deep in the $20,000 Guarantee this afternoon, and then turned on me when I refused – I can say I already gave.
