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My computer’s internet connection needed a repair during the third break. I apologize for not giving you an update at that time, but the main victim was ME. I was deprived the opportunity of telling you how I went from under 800 chips to 8,000. I could tell the same story now but it doesn’t have the same edge-of-your seat excitement to it since my elimination an hour later. I went out in 201st place.
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We are at the second break in the Omaha EOB FTOPS event. Mike Matusow, the host, has been playing conservative, always showing down quality cards. The problem is, he hasn’t gotten very many of them. He’s hanging in with 2,600 after 2 hours. For the first 45 minutes, I was keeping track of the number of hands Mike played, versus the number I played. He played 33%. I played 50%. Mike’s been kind of quiet tonight, and the Thousand Poor Spellers (the rail) discovered that Starrwalker, another player at the table, is a friend of Clonie Gowen’s as well as a dealer and excellent player herself. She’s gotten so many questions and comments from the rail that her computer blew out a few minutes ago.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under FTOPS, Mike Matusow
Mike Matusow, tonight’s host
Smokingokun won the six-handed FTOPS event last night. Tonight is FTOPS #6, Omaha EOB, hosted by Mike Matusow. Today also marks the one-year anniversary of the greatest poker game ever played, a heads-up match between Andy Beal and Ted Forrest.
Here’s how the chips fell in Event 5:
1. Smokinokun – $82,303.20
2. bigwinner02 – $52,371
3. byosti – $36,639
4. ChesapeakeChubs – $27,531 (According to OfficialPokerRankings.com, this is Chubs’ biggest prize in a Full Tilt tournament. His second biggest was earlier on tournament day when he won his way into this $216 event in a multi-table Turbo satellite.)
5. Mikey 73 – $19,665
6. SwedePhenom – $13,248 (Swede is a regular and successful tournament player on Full Tilt. His best finish in a six-handed tournament was in the $30,000 Guarantee on fourth place on February 5th, a tournament in which my friend Mr_Suited finished third. My friend’s other final table on Full Tilt, in another $30,000 Guarantee event, was also on a day when Swede made the last two tables.)
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under FTOPS
Andy Bloch just busted in 84th, making Erick Lindgren the last Full Tilt Poker pro in the field.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, FTOPS
Coming out of the break, after 4 1/2 hours, the field is down to 110 players. The chip average is 56,000. The next players eliminated get $538.20.
The chip leader is ChesapeakeChubs with 240,00. MacDaddy34 has 181,000. Andy Bloch is third with 150,000. Huck Seed busted in 122th, with A-Q against 8-8.
When I told Andy the headline for this update, he said, ”I guess I have to finish higher than sixth,” referring to his brother Jon’s finish last night in PLO. Since Andy has brought up the matter of finishing position, I am trying to find out the most a Full Tilt Poker pro has made in a tournament.
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As I write this, the players in the 6-handed NLHE event are going on break. They’ve been at it 3 hours 15 minutes. They are approaching the money. Out of a field starting with over 2,000, they are down to 299. 234 will get paid. The chip average is about 21,000. The chip leader, d4donkey, has 96,000.
Scanning the leaderboard for familiar faces, I found two.
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I was unable to provide an update during the first break in FTOPS #5 because I had to pick up my daughter Valerie at dance. I was also unable to hold on to the chips I picked up doubling through a guy with A-A when my 5-5 turned into quads on the flop. (Presto!) I’m not sure if I can blame the dance moms for that, but I’m trying. I had nearly 6,000 chips after a half hour. 75 minutes in, I have 700.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under FTOPS, John Juanda
A Preview
Tonight’s FTOPS event is the Six-Handed No-Limit Hold ‘Em event. John Juanda is the host. The buy-in is $200 + $16, and the guarantee is $350,000. Because I once won a six-handed event less than 1/10th the size, naturally I am picking myself as the favorite to take down the big prize, which should exceed the guarantee amount of $70,000. I promise I won’t let the money change me, except that I might pay my bills on time for am month.
John Juanda and I are friendly but I don’t know him very well. I told you my best Juanda stories back in Entry #001, from when I first met him as part of Mike Matusow’s group at the end of the 2005 World Series of Poker. But I’ll amplify one point.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, FTOPS
That was actually the headline of a Detroit Free Press article from 1972 or 1973. Ron Lolich, a young outfielder with the Cleveland Indians, made the biggest hit of his career, and THAT’S how it was reported.
Andy Bloch, brother of Jon Bloch, finished 346th in FTOPS #4, PLO with rebuys, last night. Jon finished 340 places higher, going out in sixth. He earned $10,184 for his efforts. Andy, in contrast, had won a poker tournament at Foxwoods and competed almost two more years in tournament poker before cashing for more.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, FTOPS, Jennifer Harman
I hadn’t suffered enough tonight, between busting out of the $35,000 Guarantee, the FTOPS event, and the $30,000 Guarantee. I couldn’t resist entered the $7,000 Guarantee, which starts at Midnight for me. I told myself I did it because it’s a double-stack tournament and so I’d have something to do while watching the end of the PLO event, but that’s like saying ”I can give up drinking anytime I want to.”
But I’m glad I entered.
I drew a table with DontBluffMePLZZ, winner of FTOPS #3, and got to chat at the table with him for a few minutes. (I tried to let him know I was simpatico, having pulled down a cool 5% of his $151,000 payday while watching his victory.) Of course, he could have been handing me a line about everything we discussed, but I like to assume people are telling the truth. Here’s what he told me:
1. He’s 21 years old. ”It hasn’t sunk in, a life changing amount of money for a 21 year old.”
2. Even though this tournament started at 1:59 AM EST, more than 21 hours after FTOPS #3 ended, he hasn’t gone to sleep yet.
3. He is a student at Cornell and says he’s not dropping out.
That’s probably what Michael Jordan said back at North Carolina.
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I just read that Marco Traniello (Full Tilt Poker’s newest red pro) won the Caesars Palace qualifying tournament for the NBC Heads-Up Championship. That’s a terrific achievement and he’s proven himself repeatedly to be a solid tournament player.
But, as I wrote in The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King, that wasn’t always the case. Marco and Jennifer Harman met in 2000 while Marco was visiting the U.S. on a vacation from his native Italy. He had no background in poker and had never played it.
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