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It’s only natural when I write about FTOPS to focus on the losers. AS I write this, I have played in three of the four FTOPS events and busted out of $900 worth of FTOPS before the first break hit in weird, fluky, unlikely ways. But I should recognize there is at least the POSSIBILITY of striking it rich. Indeed, it’s the only thing that keeps me going.
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Like over 5,000 others on Wednesday night, I began my attempt to cash in on the FTOPS XV action. Because, unlike almost everybody else, I have to write about the experience (both as participant and reporter), I was taking frantic notes. (In fact, I jumped the gun by a couple of hours, carefully writing down my experiences in the satellites leading to Event #1 and opening the Pro Chat box so I could catch every cagey word of host Erik Seidel.) I am always at a loss on how to cover an online tournament.
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FTOPS XV starts tomorrow, Wednesday February 10. It is going to be big, so big that I’m thinking of cancelling a trip I was planning to the LA Poker Classic so I can report on the festivities . . . and, okay, play an event or twelve.
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Question From jesus477: what would you do if you pick up ak in late position and are faced with a 3x raise smooth call or reraise?
Michael Craig: Depends on the stacks, stage of the tournament, and the opponent. With a lot of chips and tight opponents, especially later, I want to just call. Even if I don’t hit my hand, if my opponent misses, he may check and I can pick it up that way. Or is scared by the board. Imagine the guy has 7-7. He raises. If you reraise (and he doesn’t have a huge stack), he’ll be pushing. But if you call and the flop is Q-9-5, he may give up on the pot.
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Question From xArtShellx: whats the most you ever won/lost in a night?
Michael Craig: The most I’ve won was $48k – I finished 3rd in the Sunday Brawl and won the Sunday HORSE in Feb. Most I’ve lost has been my Main Event buy-in, 3 times.
Question From alsr1: Would you have any advice for a new tourny player
Michael Craig: Read The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide – Tournament Edition. Seriously, it has a lot of good advice for a starting tournament player.
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Have I or have I not been telling you since last year that Yuval “The Hawk” Bronshtein is capable of big things?
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Question From bobarnuts: How much harder do you find online tournaments versus live tournaments
Michael Craig: They have such different features I’m not sure I can compare them. And I’m not sure they are harder, though some elements may be more difficult.
Question From KHALILONE: Did you start online? Or hit a big tourny to be sponserd by FT?
Michael Craig: I started playing in 1990, so pre-online. I’m not really “sponsored” by FT in that I buy my own way into online and live tourneys. My connex with FT was from The Full Tilt Poker Strat. Guide and from writing the Full Tilt Poker Blog.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under FTOPS, I = Genius, I = Idiot, My family, My Life
Part of my duties hosting FTOPS Event #15 – one of which was NOT busting out in 1,722nd place; I did that on my own thank you very much – included hosting a “pro chat.” I chatted for two hours and answered just about every question put to me, some several times. I’m reprinting the transcript for anyone interested, exactly as it appeared online. Because of the length, I’ve broken it into four parts.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under FTOPS, Me in online tourneys, My Life
I was also thinking that maybe I’ve thrown off my FTOPS jinx, though that was a very new feeling. My first event, the $200 + $16 NLHE, started like most opening FTOPS events: I didn’t get cards, I lost a hunk when a crappy hand in the blind turned into something good but someone else made better, and then got my last chips in with a good hand, but ran into a better one. It seems every opening event starts with me never having a chance.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under FTOPS
The regular readers of this blog should know this but I’ll state the obvious for those of you just tuning in: (1) I’ve played most FTOPS events; (2) I have an uncharacteristically – defined by the rest of my online tournament record – awful record in FTOPS events; (3) I keep promising/swearing/threatening to sit out the FTOPS altogether, just to keep my ever-more-fragile bankroll and sanity together; and (4) It is my long-hopeless dream to host an FTOPS event.
The 9th series of FTOPS starts tonight, August 6, and runs to August 18, with 25 events in all. Where does my twisted history in these tournaments leave me at the beginning of this series?
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