#054 – FTOPS Main Event C – Someone Else’s Fortune

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It’s break time after 3 1/2 hours. There are 1,168 players left, with the average chip stack being 13,771. pcyb has the chip lead with 63,595, and four other players have over 60,000. A lot of Full Tilt Poker pros are in a position to do damage. Mark ”Gable” Vos leads the pros with 34,000. Aaron ”Crazy Eyes” Bartley, Lynette ”Ice Woman” Chan, and Jeff … uh ”The Kid” Madsen have around 25,000. Layne Flack has 20,000. Chris Ferguson, tonight’s host, has 11,000 but is always dangerous. David Grey, Ben Roberts, Paul Wolfe, Allen Cunningham, and Toto Leonidas all have chips.

Of course, my charming – and charmed – buddy Clonie is right in the thick of it, too.

I’m playing about eight times as many hands as Clonie. Yet I still say things like, “Clonie, should I raise two off the button with 6-2o? I think they’re ready to fold around if I bet.” All I can say is that I must be really nice company because she couldn’t be hanging out with me based on poker ability.

After getting re-raised on consecutive hands, I re-re-raised with A-K. My opponent pushed all-in and I called. He had kings, which held up, and I was eliminated in 1,416th place. Clonie, just before that, raised with 7-7 and pushed all-in following a re-raise. Her opponent had T-T, but after a flop of J-4-6, a five on the turn gave her a straight draw and it came in with the eight on the river. That put her over 15,000 in chips, which is over 15,000 more than I have.

Clonie asked for an autographed copy of my book, which I signed as follows: “To Clonie – A good friend and the luckiest” – then I crossed out “luckiest” and wrote “loveliest” “poker player I know. Michael Craig.”

Clonie is sitting pretty, as always, but now she has over 18,000 in chips.

Maybe I’ll do better in HORSE ….

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