Posted by The All-In-Uit | Filed under Reader Mail
The highs, the lows, the joy, the pain – welcome to yet another flowery edition of Reader Mail. Your favorite One Angry Monkey will return once he recovers from the pain of listening to poker slang being used as a euphemism for all things boy-girl related (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). Today I’d like to start by thanking the powers that be for coinciding the start of FTOPS VIII with today’s column – God knows we need something to talk about here. On to our FTOPS-themed mailbag for today:
There are a lot of events in FTOPS VIII. Do you think it’s possible to play every single one?
Sure. I’m not a mathematician but if there are 24 events over 12 days with four limit events, then it’s just a simple matter of dividing your starting stack by the length of time it takes for an average hand to the power of infinity, plus the time it takes for you to stop kicking yourself in the head for playing a limit tourney.
OK, maybe it’s a little bit more complicated than I thought. The real question you should be asking though is can you play every FTOPS event and play it well? Apparently staying up for 24 hours straight is equivalent to having a blood alcohol concentration of 0.05. This would put you on par with the One Angry Monkey, but is probably not conducive to playing your best poker. Plan ahead, pick the events you want to play (or the events you can play) and good luck!
Why is Razz so stupid? Who on earth would make a game where the worst hand wins?
Hold your horses right there tiger (I’m going with an animal theme today). The great thing about having so many different poker games is that there’s something for everyone. Most regular normal folk like good old No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em. Action junkies might go for Pot-Limit Omaha. Librarians would go for Limit tournaments. And pure sadomasochists enjoy playing Razz.
Ridiculous generalizations aside, sometimes it’s nice to play a game where everyone is as bad as you – which actually in this instance makes you good… wait I’m confused. As an aside, I’ve actually heard that our own Big Donkey is quite a fan of the game seeing as it allows him to legitimately play most starting hands with a 7 and a 2 in them. Did that answer your question? No? Oh well.
I know I asked this last time but what the hell is with the return of the Bouncebackability Freeroll? Are you guys still high on crack?
Just in case it hasn’t popped up in casual conversation, the Bouncebackability Freeroll is a special Freeroll for those poor people who finish on the bubble in any FTOPS event. Finishing one place outside the money in any tournament is tough – but can you imagine finishing on the bubble in a tournament that you received an entry to because you finished on the bubble?
As for the name, few can say it, none of us comprehend it and we all fear to type it, but the Bouncebackability Freeroll will remain as the legacy of one great man. A man whose footsteps we fear to tread in, lest we be accused of coming up with promotion names by drawing random words out of a hat.
As my fellow scribe One Angry Monkey said, “Some ideas are good, some ideas are great. But the Bouncebackability Freeroll was simply sheer genius.”
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