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Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
I have the ridiculous love affair with numbers, not that I’m a brilliant mathematician who can snap call with answers to the toughest equations, it’s just a weird obsession with crunching them to see what kind of data falls out on the other end. Yesterday seemed like a weird day on the final tables throughout the day where larger than normal numbers of players were settling for a chop as far sooner than normal. Luckily our friend Jess Welman at Bluff saw the same thing so I’m not losing my mind.
It seemed a far lower number of events during FTOPS XVII were settled with some sort of chop before the end and then this Sunday all the deal makers were out in force. Thanks to a goofy research project on the site I pulled numbers from every guaranteed tournament from midnight to midnight for Big Money Sunday and strange things were afoot. Three of the four major tournaments I track here alone made 3/4 person deals at the end with players all basically getting the same money and the minimum set aside to play it out.
The Bolsheviks would be happy.
There was some decent added money to the prizepools as the biggest and smallest games on the slate missed their guarantee mark. The $200,000 Double Deuce continues to draw big fields for the small buyin tournament but once again players found themselves with over $16,000 in free Tilt money in the mix. The $750,000 was quite a few players short of the mark, FTP kicked in an extra $65,800 for those able to buyin to the tournament. Nearly 100,000 reasons to hit the satellites this weekend to get into the tournaments on the cheap. Over $5,000,000 in guaranteed prizepool each and every Sunday.
There were no big standouts in the Big Money Sunday majors this weekend. Tony “D1rtyR1v3r” Nardi had a few top finishes and Chris “Moormanl” Moorman made the $200,000 Guarantee final table (as well as decent results on another site who shall not be named). That final table also featured Brandon Adams and Brent “Bhanks1″ Hanks, Hanks threw in a decent $750k result as well. Jon “Pearljammer” Turner finished 15th in the Sunday Mulligan for the best result in a major for the red letter pros.
Just over two weeks until the kickoff of MiniFTOPS XVII with the satellites now up and running. $6,000,000 in prize money for just a fraction of the regular FTOPS buyins. You can find the MiniFTOPS schedule by clicking the link as well as the MiniFTOPS XVII Satellite Challenge.
Big Money Sunday results after the jump:
Tags: AlCantHang, Big Money Sunday, Bloggers on the Rail, Brandon Adams, Jon Turner
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
It’s one of those fun days in the Rio when poker meets the outside world of sports, while we watch thousands of players take their shot at the next $1,000 pushfest a lot of the players will also have their eyes on the monitors scattered throughout the Pavilion Room showing the USA versus England World Cup soccer match. One of the great things about poker is bringing people together from around the world all with a rooting interest in their countries team.
We’re told the Pavilion Room exploded in applause when the England keeper gifted the US a goal.
Saturday means they stormed the Rio again for another version of the lowest buyin open event at the WSOP, the Pavilion Room is packed solid with few pro players today but a flock of those looking to turn their grand into a bracelet. We also have the Ladies event returning for Day 2 with the 6-handed Limit Hold’em tournament. Two more bracelets will be awarded where Tilt has another chance to add collect it’s second win of the series.
Full Tilt pros Jon “Pearljammer” Turner and Richard Ashby will sit down for the $1,500 Seven Card Stud final table this afternoon which is led by Sorel Mizzi. Nenad Medic returns to the final day of the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha as the massive chip leader, finishing a day that remarkably saw both events hit their final table on schedule. Both final tables will be split between the two main ESPN stages and should have an active rail.
$1,500 Seven Card Stud final table:
1 – Sorel Mizzi – 435,000
2 – Darrne Shebell – 320,000
3 – Richard Ashby – 276,000
4 – Dan Heimiller – 241,000
5 – Pat Pezzin – 211,000
6 – Christine Pietsch – 193,000
7 – Jon “Pearljammer” Turner – 83,000
8 – Owais Ahmed – 78,000
$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha final table:
1 – Nenad Medic – 1,504,000
2 – Tex Barch – 546,000
3 – Trai Dang – 500,000
4 – Klinghammer Thibaut – 366,000
5 – Ashkan Razavi – 294,000
6 – Blair Rodman – 272,000
7 – Chris Chang – 195,000
8 – Denton Pfister – 167,000
9 – Tyler Patterson – 139,000
The $1,000 Ladies Championship will also play down to their final table with newest Full Tilt pro Lacey Jones in the mix as well as Full Tilt Poker Academy’s Lizzy Harrison. There was a lot of steam going around yesterday about the pros/cons/disaster that is the Ladies Tournament. Your humble reporter will stay out of the mix and pull for our friends along with various friends of the blog including Michele Lewis, Maria Ho, and Bluff Magazine’s Jess Welman.
Tags: 2010 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Jon Turner, Lacey Jones, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
After getting an expected “day off” last Sunday due to certain technical difficulties, this Sunday provided extra fun making up for my forced laziness. Yesterday brought the first of 4 events dubbed “The Big Little Tournament”. A $250,000 guarantee tournament for just a $5.50 buyin drew over 46,000 players and some of the most insane action ever. 46,000 players were whittled down to a winner in 9 hours of play which works out to over 5,000 eliminated each hour, 85 players every 60 seconds. Consider the play slowed down near the end and you get an idea of just how quickly things moved along in the early hours.
Full Tilt pro Karina Jett was the big name hanging in there near the end, coming up short in 28th but she did outlast 99.94% of the field. 7,500 players cashed in this event so you will forgive me for not going over the entire list. It was a great turnout for another promotion aimed at the lower bankrolled players and continue again next week at the same time. 13:45ET next time will make this event seem sane as that will bring us the Turbo version of “The Big Little Tournament”.
Another tournament which hit my radar yesterday was the $200,000 guarantee rebuy event. I may have to keep this one in my permanent rotation of tournament railbirding along with the Big Money Sunday events and $200k Double Deuce. With the $150 rebuy format it seems to attract a very pro-heavy field and some great action. This week we had Erica Schoenberg collect a cool $30,000 for her third place finish, Ryan “ryanghall” Hall was also at the final table and Dutch “Dutchalicious” Boyd finshed 10th as the final table bubble boy. Jon “Pearljammer” Turner was just another big name on the list out in 12th. Railbirds delight, we’ll see how it looks next week.
Mystery player “Str8Foward” continues his hot play over the last month with his 3rd place finish in the $750,000 Guarantee which is also his third 5-digit cash in less than a month. He even turned a $11 satellite into the $100,000 Guarantee into a $2,000 cash. If anyone has any information on this player, feel free to pass it along. I think I would like to have a conversation for the blog.
You can find the final table results after the jump. Don’t forget to sign up for next week’s “The Big Little Tournament” or hit up the super cheap satellites.
Tags: AlCantHang, Big Money Sunday, Bloggers on the Rail, Erica Schoenberg, Jon Turner, Karina Jett
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Perry Friedman rocks the Full Tilt Poker “grill” to go with his corn rows
I’ve generally stuck to doing a “Week in Pictures” during the preliminary events of the WSOP but I now realize that I’ll be getting more photos than I know what to do with now that we’ve come to the Main Event. So now we’re going to switch up to daily posts as long as we continue to get quality images.
Day 1a started with 1,116 and finished with 821 players. A good number of Team Full Tilt survived to see Day 2.
More photos after the jump:
Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Allen Cunningham, Beth Shak, Bloggers on the Rail, Eli Elezra, Erik Cajelais, Gavin Smith, Greg Mueller, Jerry Yang, Jon Turner, Michael Gracz, Perry Friedman, Roland de Wolfe, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
It was another great week for Team Full Tilt. Final tables were populated with players patched up in FTP gear and make a lot of noise. Three bracelets would be brought into the fold by Phil Ivey, Nick Schulman and Greg “FBT” Mueller. If the rest of the poker world wants to catch up, they better start working hard.
It’s Friday so that means it’s time for the Week in Pictures. These are just some of the collection that did not make any posts during the week but are worthy of your time
View of the final table of Event #27 Pot Limit Omaha/8. Three Full Tilt members were present but Roland De Wolfe would defeat Omaha-guru Scott Clements for the title.
![ev 34 day 1 imm3008 impdi 2009 World Series of Poker Week 3 in Pictures](/poker-from-the-rail/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ev-34-day-1_imm3008-impdi.jpg "Amanda \\"Mandy B\\" Baker at the 2009 World Series of Poker")
More pictures after the jump:
Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Allen Cunningham, Amanda Baker, Bloggers on the Rail, Cyndy Violette, Fabrice Soulier, Jon Turner, Josh Arieh, Kelly Kim, Lee Watkinson, Nick Schulman, Perry Friedman, Pictures of the Week, Richard Brodie, Roland de Wolfe, Ross Boatman, Scott Clements, Steve Zolotow, Vivek Rajkumar, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
![ev25 day1 ids 4476 impdi web 2009 World Series of Poker Day 18 Seat Open!](/poker-from-the-rail/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ev25_day1_ids_4476_impdi-web.jpg "Jon \\"Pearljammed\\" Turner at the 2009 World Series of Poker")
Jon “Pearljammed” Turner leads Event #25 at the 2009 World Series of Poker
Photo credit: IMPDI
I’m running out of terms and having trouble thinking of a new way to describe what happens during the weekend $1,500 No Limit Hold’em events. How many times over seven weeks can I use the terms donkey, lemur, pushmonkey, etc? I may have to start a contest to keep my content and vocabulary up to date. “Seat Open!” will be the call of the day.
Today’s noon event will draw near 3,000 players and I ran into every single one of them this morning. My standard procedure is to be firmly planted in my media row seat by no later the 10:30am. It’s quiet in the Amazon Room and I can get more work done before I hit the tournament floor. Today I did not get to the hallowed halls until just before noon, found myself swimming against a constant stream of weekend warriors pushing their way into their respective rooms to see how fast they can dust off 4500 in chips.
My plan is to watch the finals of the Omaha/Stud Hi-Lo tournament where Full Tilt is well represented. Phil Ivey and Steve Wong are alive and Jon “Pearljammed” Turner leads the final 14 players in the tournament. Also playing are Carlos Mortensen, Dutch Boyd and Chad Brown. They will play down to a winner later today with first place taking home over $220,000 plus the bracelet.
There are also two other non-NLHE events to keep my attention. The field for the Limit Hold’em event was smaller than your average push/pray festival and there are some sharp people at the top heading into Day 2. Richard “Quiet Lion” Brodie, Bill Chen, Justin Bonomo and Noah Boeken are just a few in the top 10.
Only 198 registered for the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha/8 tournament which usually means it’s easier to locate the bracelets in the event. 59 players return and attempt to make tomorrow’s final table. If my fuzzy memory is correct, the only events to stick to the schedule have been Pot Limit tournaments. Three of the top 10 will be sporting Full Tilt gear. Roland De Wolfe, Richard Ashby and Andy Black are just a few of the FTP pros still in contention.
Finally, the fun 5pm tournament. It will be my first time covering a live Heads Up tournament. Spread throughout the Amazon, Brasilia, and Miranda rooms will be the 256 players who drop $10,000 on the latest “World Championship”. They’ll play two heads up matches today bringing the field down to 64 at the end of the day. The field is capped at 256 and spots were nearly full at the start of the day.
I’ll need to sharpen my elbows to make it through the railbirds but I’m a veteran now.
Chip counts of the restarts after the jump.
Gavin Smith cashed in the H.O.R.S.E. event saving him from chopping off his hair
Photo credit: IMPDI
Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Gavin Smith, Jon Turner, WSOP
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Heads Up
Welcome back for another round of action in the Full Tilt Poker Heads-Up Challenge, where we take 64 of our top pros and face them off one by one to determine who’s the top dog of them all. This week’s match is our final six seed versus 13 seed showdown, with Steve “Fly like an eagle” Zolotow taking on Jon “Thank god my favorite band isn’t Limp Bizkit” Turner. Today’s match will once again be slightly abbreviated due to prior engagements (i.e. getting drunk); we’ll try our best to return to our regularly scheduled programming as soon as possible. Let’s get this party started:
Tags: Jon Turner, Steve Zolotow
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