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The Main Event is starting. Full Tilt Poker hit its guarantee, over 3,000 entries. Clonie Gowen is sitting in my office playing as I play. (We are both also entered in the Mulligan.) We have three different internet connections between us – my home wireless, the Verizon wireless on my back-up computer, and Clonie’s Sprint wireless on her computer – but she can’t stay connected. Not my fault; we don’t even have a last-longer bet.
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In the previous entry, Ted Forrest had rebounded from his sluggish start and his short chip stack to take a $1.5 million lead for the day. Had Andy Beal’s two-day run against pros Jennifer Harman and Todd Brunson (both of whom had experienced great success against Beal in the past) come to an end against Forrest, a past Terminator of other Beal rallies?
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They just started the final table of the PLHE FTOPS event. It took 6:08 to get this far, which is fast. (My sense of time is a little skewed, though I will explain why in a moment.) They just started the 8,000-16,000 level. The average chip stack is just over 200,000, so this is not as deep-stacked an event as most of the others.
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We are at the third break in the PLHE FTOPS event. We are closing in on the money (153 get paid), with 177 left. The average stack is 15,525. David Chiu (4th) and Clonie Gowen (40th) both have a lot of chips, more than double the average. Stuart Paterson and Lynette Chan are still in as well, but they have short stacks.
I am still in it, with 10,628 chips. It wasn’t easy with a short stack and Allen Cunningham to my left. On the other hand, with a bunch of luck (though not as much as people generally think), an online dude can topple the best pro.
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For the second night in a row, I OWN the FTOPS … when it’s way too early to matter. I won’t, like last night, provide the excruciating detail of every hand, but I got action twice with A-A and made a couple other successful plays. At halfway to the next break, I made it to the first page of the leaderboard with over 11,000 chips. Just to prove to me how little it mattered, before the second break, I managed to lose enough of them to enter myself in the $30,000 Guarantee tourney, which is my unofficial ”consolation” event at the FTOPS. I am down to XXXX chips.
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Rafe Furst headlines – at least for this entry – the contigent of 10 Full Tilt Poker pros in the field of 916 in FTOPS #8, Pot-Limit Hold ‘Em. The prize pool totals $183,200. 153 will be paid. Bottom-dollar is worth $274.80. First place pays $35,009.92. At the first break, there are 692 players remaining, with an average chip stack of just under 4,000. Big stack is nearly 15,000.
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In the second entry about ”The War of Two Furies,” the heads-up match between Andy Beal and Ted Forrest of February 14, 2006 at the Wynn, Forrest repelled Beal’s early dominance and established a lead for the day. But the day was still young.
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Last night’s FTOPS rebuy was a big success for everyone except me, though I feel I got some good posts out of it, and played some decent poker. I ended up packing it in early (for me, midnight) last night, though not by choice. On the third hand of the $7,000 Guarantee, I lost K-K to A-A. But, as Bobby Baldwin would say, I slept like a baby: slept for an hour, cried for an hour, slept for an hour, cried for an hour.
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I took a couple body blows after the break and was down to 10,000 chips. On the button, I raised the 600 big blind to 1,800. The big blind, who had a few more chips than me, pushed all-in.
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We are at the third break with 174 players left. The money (top 72) still looks a long, long way away, and I have relatively little interest in bottom money. I have to move up a bunch of spots just to break even for my FTOPS expenditures. I have 16,751, against an average of about 17,000. The chip leader has almost 70,000, another player has over 60,000. David Chiu is in 10th and I think he owes me a thank you. Steve Z and Clonie Gowen have passed me. Andy Bloch and Phil Gordon are just below me. Stuart Paterson is still hanging in. That’s it for the 20 Full Tilt Poker pros who started the event.
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