Big Money Sunday – November 1st

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big money sundays landing Big Money Sunday November 1st After the Full Tilt pros were practically skunked last week during the Big Money Sunday events, Michael Tureniec and Lee Watkinson almost made up for it on their own in the first big game of the day. Watkinson was the final table bubble boy and Tuerniec finished second in the Sunday Brawl for a nice showing. That final table also features a friend of the bloggers and regular player in the Battle of the Blogger Tournament Series as katiemother shipped 5th place for a cool $28,000.

Naturally the biggest draw of the day was the 43,000+ player FTOPS XIV Warmup game that played so crazy that it actually made the Double Deuce look sane. I’m not going to say it was a complete crapshoot, it was more like 95% luck, 4% timing (sort of luck I suppose), 1% skill (getting the hell out of the way). The biggest name I saw running deep, and quite proud of it per his twitter page, was Dutch “Dutchalicious” Boyd who somehow got through most of the field to finish in 80th.

I’d like to highlight just one player and three hands to give a feel for the game. I just happened to have the table up at the time and watched “her” go from decent stack to chip leader in just a few hands with less than 500 players left, I believe the first player over 1,000,000 in chips. Then all in one swoop was out of the tournament in 413th. I am by no means picking on “MsKitty0487″, just dump luck that I happened to have the table open.

It all starts off with either the most brilliantly played Aces or the biggest head scratcher. She limped in late position after one other limper. Checked it down on the ace-high, two heart flop. Flat called a min-bet on both the turn and river for a very small pot. “david koch” pretty much lost the minimum he could on that hand. No matter, just one hand later she turned on the burners and took all his chips with AJ versus A9 on a jack-high flop. How could he get a read after the previous play?

Here is the hand that got her up near the stratosphere. No aggression, just check/called the entire way has her next victim hung himself betting into the mortal nuts. This hand pretty much played itself at this level. Nice flop.

It didn’t take very long after that for it all to start circling the drain. After a few sketchy hands at her new table, she tangled with the only player at the table who could knock her out, with a borderline hand out of position. Called a pretty sizable preflop raise, a huge re-raise on the flop, and the shove on the turn with a 7% chance to pick up the pot. From hero to out in no time. “Froggetaboutit” went on to finish 33rd, a $450 difference from there to 413th.

I’m no expert, just presenting it as I saw it. What hand can she beat there on the turn? QQ or an airball is just about the only thing she beats with the pre-flop action.

While I was running around grabbing screenshots, I was also taking down all the information I could gather. You see, I have this freaky love of numbers. Random numbers, formulas, statistics, etc. I’m always running a few spreadsheets on the side tracking random things just for fun. I thought for sure I’d see something interesting if I kept a note how the field busted out between breaks in the FTOPS XIV Warmup and wasn’t disappointed. Generally you see some sort of slowdown as the field corrects itself with blinds and chipstacks. Once this monstrosity got past the second break the pace of people hitting the rail stayed about as consistent as possible. From then until the very end of the tournament the rate between 65% and 69%. Of course it went even quicker when down to two tables.

Break 3 – 23,971 down to 7,581 (68.3%)
Break 4 – 7,581 down to 2,405 (68.3%)
Break 5 – 2,405 down to 733 (69.5%)
Break 6 – 733 down to 259 (64.7%)
Break 7 – 259 down to 85 (67.1%)
Break 8 – 82 down to 20 (76.4%)
Break 9 – 20 down to 5 (75.0%)

As far as I can tell, a statistical loony bin.

Hopefully the run a version of this tournament for the miniFTOPS and the rest of the FTOPS as they progress. It’s just too compelling of a spectacle to resist.

Here are your FTOPS XIV final table results, the rest of the Big Money Sunday can be found after the jump.

FTOPS XIV Warmup
Entrants: 43,874
Prizepool: $250,000
First place: $22,500

IGetMugger – 23,703,448
propopl77 – 17,943,316
redr1212 – 13,349,496
TILTOHOLIC – 9,407,018
Aunt Bessie – 6,381,052
Junokeo – 6,268,573
marciwallace – 4,750,096
Bura-AA – 3,736,488
Tigermitfell – 2,208,513

1st – propopl77 – $22,500
2nd – TILTOHOLIC – $15,725
3rd – Aunt Bessie – $11,500
4th – redr1212- $9,000
5th – IGetMugger – $7,250
6th – Junokeo – $5,750
7th – marciwallace – $4,500
8th – Tigermitfell – $3,250
9th – Bura-AA – $2,000

The Sunday Brawl
Entrants: 2,745
Prizepool: $549,000
First place: $111,447

blueszu66 – 1,290,314
ANIMAL5050 – 1,278,562
Michael Tureniec – 1,229,691
Biggest Donkey – 1,052,320
Kingphil30 – 1,038,996
koemeester – 856,336
aka_advanced – 695,442
katiemother – 409,768
tedlogan19 – 383,571

1st – Jeff “Biggest Donkey” Banghart – $111,447
2nd – Michael Tureniec – $71,919
3rd – Simon “tedlogan19″ Charette- $53,253
4th – Kingphil30 – $40,077
5th – katiemother – $27,999
6th – koemeester – $18,666
7th – ANIMAL5050 – $12,627
8th – blueszu66 – $8,784
9th – aka_advanced – $6,588

Lee Watkinson (10th), Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen (17th), Marco Liesy (42nd), “allinwithdabest” (67th)

The $200k Double Deuce
Entrants: 10,577
Prizepool: $211,540
First place: $32,788.70

nm_21 – 8,863,406
elcheapo04 – 6,982,358
Chitlinboy – 3,166,837
Clever User – 3,161,924
nikki219 – 3,005,387
Stavoski – 2,868,956
my44izSET – 2,759,621
woxix – 1,650,490
IVDonkkk – 1,598,961

1st – nm_21 – $32,788.70
2nd – my44izSET – $22,211.70
3rd – Clever User – $15,653.96
4th – elcheapo04 – $11,253.93
5th – Chitlinboy – $8,250.06
6th – woxix – $5,923.12
7th – nikki219 – $4,230.80
8th – IVDonkkk – $3,025.02
9th – Stavroski – $2,138.67

$750,000 Guarantee
Entrants: 3,850
Prizepool: $771,800
First Place: $136,647.19

1st through 3rd made a deal:

1st – whatzthebet – $91,255.70
2nd – yogan83 – $100,000.00
3rd – PureCash25 – $82,000.000
4th – Ame-Stram-Gram – $42,603.36
5th – Pimpnuho – $31,952.52
6th – luckylow15 – $23,694.26
7th – cokers66 – $17,751.40
8th – pscoot – $13,892.40
9th – BeerMe – $10,342.12

“mrvogt” (14th), Niklas Heinecker (19th), Stan “stanman420″ Lee (20th), “Pocketownage420” (32nd), “BadgerPro” (42nd), “Kenny Rap” Weinstein (55th)

The Sunday Mulligan
Entrants: 1,164
Prizepool: $232,800
First place: $52,380

Frank “Frank1The1Tank” Calo – 1,044,139
7IMLOVINIT7 – 589,865
CoinFlip – 479,998
djcoin – 397,130
Negrelli – 288,219
JaspudUF – 216,176
Mement_mori – 215,493
amarkf – 150,605
zestyfulyclean – 110,375

1st – Frank “Frank1The1Tank” Calo – $52,380.00
2nd – 7IMLOVINIT7 – $33,174.00
3rd – CoinFlip – $24,560.40
4th – djcoin – $19,206.00
5th – JaspudUF – $14,550.00
6th – Negrelli – $10,476.00
7th – amarkf – $6,984.00
8th – Mement_mori – $5,238.00
9th – zestfulyclean – $3,724.80

Tyler “TheBrain” Cornell (14th), Simon “tedlogan19″ Charette (21st), Matt “NoBadBeatsPlz” Kay (72nd), David “The Yid” Chicotsky (82nd), Dan “USCswimmer” White (98th)

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