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It’s just after 10 PM here in Arizona, after midnight on the East Coast. We are 9 minutes to the break. There are 200 players left. The average is 15,000. I have 23,000, but I’ve been spreading the wealth around.
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I was looking at a giant pot, a chance to flirt with the chip lead. For once, however, the great luck went someone else’s way. I did, however, get a familiar face to complain to.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under FTOPS
We’re at the second break. I have 21,084 chips, good for 13th, though we’re about 7-8 hours from that being meaningful. There are 356 players left, and the average stack 8,500. The next level is 120-240 (25 ante), so the average stack is still more than 30 BBs. Several Full Tilt Poker pros are making a run – David Singer, David Chiu, Phil Gordon, and Layne Flack. Many others have plenty of chips heading into the third hour of play.
Phil Gordon, one of pros doing well in tonight’s tournament
Here is how it looked to me, while I was playing in it.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under FTOPS
We are at the 80-160 level. I have been cruising on some very good cards. I was going to wait until the next break to update you, but it’s hard to imagine the breaks going my way any MORE than they are now. Average chips are 7,000. There are 426 players left.
We are starting the 40-80 level. The average stack is 5,700, more than 70 BBs.
Aaron Bartley busts on the first hand after the break. jpo raises to 240 with J-J. Aaron re-raises to 800. jpo calls. The flop comes J-7-4, 3 suits. Aaron pushes all-in, jpo calls. Not only do the jacks hold up for jpo, but he picks up a fourth jack on the river.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under FTOPS
There were 703 entrants initially. 527 remain. There were 811 rebuys and 366 add-ons. The average is 5,687. The prize pool is just over $375,0200. 72 will be paid. Bottom-money gets $850 or so. First place gets over $90,000. I am hanging tough. I did not rebuy at the start, hung around 1,200-1,300 chips, then picked up enough chips to be ineligible to rebuy. Then things got better from there. At the break, I have 8,754 (boosted by by 2,000 add-on). So I have $416 riding on this one, plus the fact I’ve played every one of these and haven’t cashed yet.
These are my notes taken during the first hour.
I started off drawing a ridiculous table, including 2 Full Tilt Poker pros and the winner of Event #1:
1. PohkerIzPhun
2. Me
3. Paul Sexton
4. jpo123 (winner of Event #1 last week)
5. nuwildcat50
6. Tony Pisser (an extremely successful Full Tilt tournament player)
7. nvestr21
8. Aaron Bartley
9. Bluechip200
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Allen Cunningham, FTOPS
Tonight’s event is relatively new territory for Full Tilt Poker, No-Limit Hold ‘Em but with $200 rebuys. As with the PLO rebuy event, the initial entries soared over the guarantee, which will of course lead to a prize pool several times that of the guarantee. Expect the pool to triple from its initial size. Tonight’s host is Allen Cunningham, who has been threatening to do some damage in the FTOPS , and may be positioned to snag a big prize.
Allen Cunningham, tonight’s host
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During Entry A, Andy Beal and Ted Forrest started tentatively in their $50,000-$100,000 heads-up match on February 15, 2006. Forrest started on a short stack, just $3.8 million. Beal had $10 million, though he hadn’t been sleeping well.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, Jennifer Harman, Ted Forrest
This week marks the first anniversary of what I consider the greatest poker game ever played. It was a heads-up match between Andy Beal and Ted Forrest on February 14, 2006 at Wynn Las Vegas. I wrote about it in the April 2006 issue of BLUFF, as part of 19,000 words of coverage of the three weeks of heads-up matches between Beal and a team of two dozen high-stakes pros. I called the February 14 game “The War Between Two Furies” and “The Valentine’s Day Massacre.” I subsequently wrote a few things about that day in my prior blog on Pokerworks.com and in the February 2007 issue of BLUFF.
I thought it would be fun and interesting to reproduce my notes of that day, verbatim. They started playing just after 9 AM and sat at that table, leaving only to race to the restrooms during the hourly deck changes, until after 7:30 PM. Beal and Forrest were playing $50,000-$100,000 hold ‘em.
There were TWO $8 million swings on this day.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Mike Matusow
In entry #008, I described in some detail a hand that Mike Matusow played in the first FTOPS event, raising to steal with 9h-6h, then calling an all-in re-raise from one of the blinds. I haven’t spoken to Mike about the hand (though I may when I see him next) but I defended the move. I received several e-mails about my analysis.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Gus Hansen
I tried to do a little research on Full Tilt the other night, checking out the rebuy tournaments. I learned a lot – including about some things having nothing to do with rebuy tournaments – and made some new friends. I also made an enemy or two, but like we say back in Chicago, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking a couple legs.”
At 8:30 PM local time, I signed up for two rebuy tournaments, the $10 + $1 and the $1 (no rake).
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