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#392 – From the FTPB Notebooks – Super-Turbo-Hyper Satellites

Posted by Editor | Filed under From the FTPB Notebooks, FTOPS, Me in online tourneys

“Davenport. It’s a large sofa.”

I’m working in my office on Tuesday morning at the ungodly-early hour of 10:30 AM. Working at the other desk is my daughter Ellie. Ellie is taking an online class, working at Starbucks, and serving her sentence under house arrest with good humor. She was just breezing through an online English class and ran into the work “denotative.” She has this aversion to using the dictionary, which we’re also trying to work through.

“Desiccated. Dried out.”

I spent a lot of time writing material for entries that I never complete. You may find it hard to believe based on the typos and the periodic long series that never gets completed but it’s hard for me to release something until I think it’s completed. A long but incomplete series appears because I submit it in portions and don’t realize until I’ve gotten in too deep that it needs more work … and I’ve gone on to something else. The typos are because I hate proofreading and/or am bad at it unless I have someone to whom I can read drafts aloud.

But I’m going to share more “pieces” of entries. This one comes from a page of notes I took before the Razz event in the previous FTOPS. I played in my first Super-Turbo satellite just before the event. Some of the Full Tilt pros I’m friends with make fun of my “talent” in turbo tournaments, as if I was bragging about being a Yahtzee champion. Someone – I don’t remember who – said turbos were “like crack cocaine.” If that’s the case, then the Super-Turbo satellites are like injecting crack cocaine into your eye socket.

Here’s my notebook entry from a couple months back:

Before the razz event, I played one of the Super-Turbo satellites. That’s actually a lie. I played 2. Everyone starts with 100 chips and the first level has limits of 10-20. And it’s a turbo.

In the first SnG, $40-$2, only one player would make it through. In the minutes before the razz event, the traffic in the super-turbo satellites is so brisk that I don’t even notice who else is signing up.

We took our seats and I noticed Jon “PearlJammed” Turner and a couple other big-name online pros were at the table. I remarked, “Tough table. The only player at this table I haven’t heard of is me.”

I simultaneously signed up for an $80 + $4 Super Turbo. Two players made it through and I had half the chips after five hands and cruised in. When I finally busted the third-place finisher – it seemed like it took awhile but was probably about four hands – the other qualifier said, “Woohoo! Thanks Mike. I badly wanted to play the razz event. I only have $10 more in my account.”

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