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Naturally, I didn’t get to do everything I wanted for the contest and for FTOPS. I have lots of material on Event #1 about how I played (I busted David Benyamine in the first half hour when I played top pair exactly the way it should be played – for value on the flop and to pick off a bluff on the river, though kudos to the Gallic superstar for bluffing all-in, something we online tournament folks don’t often encounter), how Theresa played (beautifully, but stuck in a couple unavoidably tough hands), and how Sammy played (well, except for one tough hand where he made a mistake lots of people – including me sometimes – make, flopping a very good hand but one that’s (a) vulnerable and (b) possibly not the best hand, and calling instead of pushing or folding when it was inevitable all the chips would go in). I have material on the Omaha EOB event, in which I watched Howard Lederer’s return to online poker, followed his chat, and charted his play. I may yet get to some of that stuff, but I’m not making any promises. I want to make sure to conclude the thread of posts about my contest before I leave next week to cover the NBC Heads-Up Championship (obviously, I didn’t qualify, but I’m saving that sad story for my preview) and my proper return to tournament poker at the Wynn Classic.
So here goes:
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THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF #345
Jeremy confessed “I’m finding myself at a crossroads in my poker ‘career.’ I’m a self-confessed micro-limit warrior and I’m quickly getting burned out. I find myself constantly wondering how I’d do in a major tournament and I’m both under-funded and unwilling to depart from Mr. Ferguson’s recommendations on bankroll management.”
It was completely appropriate for him to ask for the buy-in, as it was for everyone else who entered. But I hope Jeremy thinks seriously about whether he’s cut out for an actual career in poker. If he’s not playing for the love of the game and starts thinking that only higher stakes – higher than his bankroll will support – can keep his interest/passion, then he’s just gambling.
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“With every passing FTOPS, I find myself growing more and more upset that I do not have the supported bankroll to afford such luxurious buy-in tournaments even though I know I can be a strong success in them.”
“100 words cannot fit the amount of emotion I have in trying to get into my first FTOPS tournament.”
More than a few entrants – and probably players on Full Tilt – have misplaced their compass. I know the contest urged players to beg and act desperate but I think a lot of entries weren’t exaggerating to get my attention for the contest. Apologies to those entrants who were play-acting, but I hope this review and commentary helps some readers gain focus and perspective.
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This story starts out happy. How it ends is anyone’s guess, though unhappy is favored at 3-to-1.
Last night, I returned to the Wynn from dinner and found my favorite parking in Las Vegas unavailable. I’m in town to play the satellite for the NBC Heads-Up Championship and develop some plans in connection with the Championship itself, the Wynn Classic in March, and the World Series this summer. It’s a 3-day weekend so car traffic from California (and, okay, Arizona) is so heavy that the garage next to the poker room is beyond full. The second level is such an unbelievably great place to park that I’m constant amazed it’s EVER available.
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I started going through the remaining entries to come up with common themes and point out some that were especially imaginative, funny, or just weird. I got most of the way done. I want a separate post for one issue, that of broke young players mistakenly believing that a hunk of money to take a shot at a big tournament is what their poker careers have been missing. But it’s 3 AM here, the post is already pretty long, and I want to share it with you. So here’s what I have so far in my analysis of the remaining entries. I’ll try to supplement this on Friday if I can.
Enjoy.
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Event #14, Razz, has just started and it looked like, for once, I wouldn’t be crazy-busy with 12 other things in the 5 minutes before an FTOPS event. Jo Anne and Valerie are out to dinner. Ellie has gotten together with a friend. Barry is out working on a school project.
Tournament starts, it’s just the 3 of us – me and Razz and all that stuff we’re so scared of.
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Before choosing Theresa (TedForrestFan) and Sal (sammymorb), as well as Andrew (Julius_Goat) as my runner-up, I narrowed down the 120+ entries to 10. I’d like to share with you the entries that came close. I hope to be able to make a separate post (and soon!) of some interesting things I saw in the other entries.
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So we’re 12+ events into FTOPS and, despite all my efforts to the contrary, I am miserable. Why am I miserable? I’ve played 8 events without cashing. I played extremely well in HORSE and finished about a half hour short of the money, and extremely well in Omaha EOB and finished in the middle of the field. In those events in total, I made a few mistakes in HORSE which cost me some chips but had nothing to do with my elimination and played mistake-free in Omaha. All that good play was meaningless. I played extremely well in the NLHE rebuy event, which proved to be meaningless. In fact, during one period over the weekend, I busted out of nearly $1,000 worth of tournaments with an overpair, a pair of aces, or two-pair, all against small pairs that flopped sets. That happened four times in less than 200 hands.
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Erick Lindgren triumphed over one of the largest fields in Full Tilt Poker history to become the first red pro to win an FTOPS event. Lindgren prevailed over a field of 5,637 to win Event #9, $300 + $22 NLHE, winning over $291,000 for his 11 ½ hour performance.
His victory has many consequences and signifies many things:
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This is my attempt to play and blog Event #8, $120 + $9 NLHE KO. I will keep all my posts of the event in this entry, with the most recent just below this introduction:
2:28 PM – And then I’m out. Following a limp, AlwaysLimp min-raised. I had JJ and wanted to get him to push all-in. He obviously had something he liked. I made it 2000, which was a third of my chips. He flat-called. The flop came 4-4-A. I’m just screwed here if he’s got an ace. I mean, I suppose I can fold if he bets but he’ll bet with or without an ace. It’s my SB so it’s my decision. I push in for my remaining chips. He calls with AQ, the third time he has shown that hand down. He’s also shown down AJ, AT, and AA, so I guess I could have put him on the ace but … I don’t know. I just refused to believe a could could inadvertently keep getting that lucky with no idea where he’s at. At least that’s what I’m telling myself for now. I’m certain I didn’t cover myself with glory in my last couple hands with him.
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