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#572 – Stop the Presses (and Stop the Depression)!

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First, I am changing the contest rules to Buy the Coach.

Second, I am officially over my spiralling depression.

I had a nice talk with my dad – he’s always there when things are messed up in my life and I think I’m always there for him, though I routinely miss birthdays and anniversaries and neglect to keep in touch sometimes – and I paid my bills and my taxes. Then I came up with an idea to ROCK my coverage of the WSOP Main Event final table AND my contest.

Please read on!

Full Tilt has three pros at the final table of the WSOP Main Event – Scott Montgomery, Craig, Marquis, and Kelly Kim. Each brings a different, yet formidable, set of skills to the game.

Montgomery, not far off the chip lead with over 19 million, has already distinguished himself as a top live tournament player. In his first three $10,000-buy-in events, he made the final table at a WPT event, moneyed in the WSOP NLHE heads-up championship, and (of course) made the final table of the Main Event.

Marquis, the youngest player at the final table, is a ravenous online cash-game pro, earning a living playing up to twelve NLHE tables at a time.

Kim is the wild card. With 2 million chips, he has just 10 BB and needs to get his chips in smart and get lucky (or avoid getting unlucky). He is a professional gambler splitting his time between California and Vegas, where he lives with a group of fellow professionals who discretely combine high living and profitable gambling. He is, typical of a diverse professional in this business, something of a mystery.

Over the next few days, I am going to post my profiles of all three men. I have also decided to revise my Buy the Coach essay contest to more specifically reflect some elements of each member of Full Tilt’s final table trio. (I will contact all those who have already entered by e-mail. They should merely modify their entries slightly and resubmit them as part of the contest based on Craig Montgomery.)

Here is a preview of how it will go:

1. Accompanying the profile of Scott Montgomery (“Tournament Star”) will be a contest almost identical to the Buy the Coach contest announced last week. You will put yourself in Scott’s position and decide how to prepare for the final table. Tell me who you’d hire as coach, what you’d pay him or her, and what you’d expect them to do. The prize for Tournament Star will most likely be ONE entry into the FTOPS X Turbo event.

2. Accompanying the profile of Craig Marquis (“Cash Game Killer”) will be a contest relating an experience or some advice about playing the medium-stakes cash games on Full Tilt. Details are still being worked out but the prize will either be an FTOPS buy-in or an equivalent amount to play in your regular cash game. I gotta check with the boss.

3. Accompanying the profile of Kelly Kim (“Man of Mystery”) will be a contest in which you briefly tell your most entertaining gambling-buddy story. Again, I’m working on the details but the prize will most likely be an FTOPS X buy-in.

4. Multiple entries in each contest and among the contests will be allowed, so you are encouraged to go crazy as soon as I post the “OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT” of each of the three contests over the next three days.

So you can look forward to three profiles of three great and very interesting poker pros. And with each one, a contest to give you a shot an a free FTOPS buy-in or similar cash buy-in.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m not depressed any more, so I have to get to work.

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