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We’re at the second break in FTOPS #9, the NLHE rebuy event. Despite the presence of few Full Tilt pros in the one, one name is red is making his presence known on the first page of the leaderboard. Yep, me.
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The host of today’s FTOPS #9, $100 + $9 NLHE with rebuys, is Alan Boston. I don’t know Boston well but he is one of the most storied characters in gambling. Here are the bits and pieces, in no particular order:
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In the time it took me to bust from six tournaments, Imper1um managed to win one, the 8th event of this running of the FTOPS, $200 + $16 PLHE. I’ve tangled with Imper1um many times and, obviously, he is a tough customer. He plays all the big Full Tilt tourneys, and in this he is not alone.
But he now has a singular achievement at allows at least one persuasive answer to the question, Who is the best player on Full Tilt?
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Let’s just cut to the chase here. Steve Martin is a superb poker player and a better con man. He operates under the cover that he knows nothing about the game, yet I saw him make an extremely canny play, then correct me when I didn’t get the percentages right.
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Tonight’s FTOPS #8 is $200 + $16 Pot Limit Hold ‘Em (PLHE). The guarantee was for $150,000, or 750 players. Despite PLHE NOT being NLHE, it got a good turnout. 1,072 players entered, creating a prize pool of over $214,000. First place receives almost $41,000. The final table gets you at least $3,300. Bottom-dollar money, 153rd place, is $321. Nine Full Tilt pros put up $1,944 to play this one, including tonight’s host David Singer.
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I am an appreciative outsider to the worlds of Manhattan, the literary scene, and the media powers. Up close, the flesh and blood characters that inhabit and sometimes rule those worlds fascinate me. Spending an evening with them exceeded my lofty expectations.
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I am late for dinner.
The day started beautifully in Manhattan. I went shopping and bought two notebooks for $60 each. (Or, rather, Full Tilt bought two notebooks for $60 each.) I had lunch outdoors with Tony Holden and Peter Alson, two of the four men responsible for me becoming a poker player and poker writer. (The third, Al Alvarez, is in England, resisting my entreaties to come to the World Series of Poker on the 25th anniversary of the articles he wrote that became THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN, the book that put the World Series on the map. Harrah’s is ignoring its obvious duty to honor Alvarez with a place in the Poker Hall of Fame. The fourth, editor Colin Fox, was invited to pick up the check and somehow managed to squirm out.)
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I’m back from New York and in a writin’-gambin’ mood. I had a great time, saw some remarkable stuff, met up with some incredibly people, and have a lot written and notes for much, much more. Here’s what’s coming over the next few days:
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I was CERTAIN I wasn’t going to be able to make it to tonight’s FTOPS #5, $200 + $16 HOSE, hosted by David Grey. But thanks to the understanding nature of Tony Holden and Colin Fox (with no small measure of help from New York cabdrivers), I have miraculously made it back. Let’s hope my poker can do justice to the effort to get me to the table.
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Addendum to Part I – Jo Anne doesn’t have the Nissan Murano any more. Convinced it had become haunted, we traded it for a cherry red Volvo S60 Turbo. Concerned that the car would attract unwanted attention in the parking lot of the school in which she taught social studies and English, I encouraged her to tell people I won it in a poker game.
In Part I, I demonstrated why it was appropriate for ME to be at Fletcher Jones Imports. On any given day, odds are pretty good that I’m buying or selling something involving cars. And with all the experience I have, my services as advisor should be much in demand. (Frankly, dealers should be happy to see me show up in the company of a prospective buyer; with me, a prospective buyer loses perspective.)
But why is Ted Forrest here?
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