BBT3 - Game #48 Skillz Omaha 8

I busted in 16th out 82 last night in the skillz Omadraw 8 BBT3 tourney. My bust out hand's action occurred on the flop when my opponent felt his flopped two pair was ahead of my very obvious flopped straight, and called my allin. But who am I to talk? I suck at omadraw, and even more when it's hi/lo...and NL to boot.

I noticed that resident FTOPS winner, and part time BBT3 participant Lilkimmer took it down last night. I believe this was the same game played (minus the NL) when he won his FTOPS. Good thing TOC is Holdem! :-)

One highlight of my donkery last night, was that I was dealt the double hammer! Albeit a traditional trash hand, but hec, it is a blogger tourney at the end of the day, right?



Tonight is Mookie night! See you all there!

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BBT3 - Game #47 MATH

I finished 3rd out of 61 runners in the MATH last night, and picked up some points in the BBT3 standings. The (not sure by who) annointed 'evil wonka' took it down, for his 2nd BBT3 win, once again meaning one less person in the TOC, and an overall bump up in equity for all TOC seat holders.

After I busted, I went to bed about as tired as can be, after a full day of helping my folks move. Actyper had a pretty huge lead 3 handed, and when he busted me with TT vs 22, IIRC he had a pretty big lead on Wonka. So congrats to Wonka, that's always nice when you can come from behind for the victory.

That was pretty much it for poker me last night, so I'll see you all tonight at the Skillz game. I see it's NL Omadraw Hi/Low. I'm sure the Donkery will be alive and well, and I'm sure I'll be contributing.

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Weekend wrapup

Friday night as I already posted, I managed a victory in the Blonkament. I haven't calculated how much the victory actually netted me, since I had a ton of rebuys again, but I'm sure I squeaked out a small profit. BTW - one of the nice things about this tournament, is that after the rebuy hour, most of the players are very deep stacked. So if you want to get some play in deep stack poker play, this is a very good tournament to hone your skills.

Yesterday, my plans to move my folks ran into some hiccups, so that left me open to play in some of the Sunday tournaments. Most notably the FTOPS main event. I played a whole bunch of satty's leading up to the tournament, and was able to grab a seat in one of the $75 multi's, which paid a whole bunch of seats. I also managed to nab a couple of seats in my fav SuperTurbo's, so it was a nice little profit.

That unfortunately was the highlight for me as far as the FTOPS ME is concerned. About 15 min, I got involved in a hand, which I got stacked on. This even though I had repeatedly told myself """DON'T GET STACKED EARLY WITHOUT THE FUCKING NUTS!!!!"

I may have to write that down a million times or so, maybe it will sink in. Here's the hand in all it's glory:



I definitely think I could have played it differently. I could have just called the Turn instead of raising for one, ESPECIALLY since I remember thinking " this guy could have bullets'!!!!!

I tell you, my play in the last 3 FTOPS ME have been horrible. Last FTOPS, I also busted 15 min, after flopping top Boat, only to get rivered by a straight Flush. Of course that was just a bad beat, but nevertheless, I was out early.

I don't remember the dudes name, but there is a pro who seems to always bust out of the WSOP main event in the first hour every year. So he took to reading a book, and not playing any hands for the first hour. Of course he got AA, and played it, and lost! So I feel like the equivalent of that guy when it comes to the FTOPS ME!

Incidentally, a player by the name of HALFREK won the ME. What is truly amazing, is that this guy took down the $1k FTOPS buyin also, so this dude won over $800k in one week. Pretty damn good. As an aside, I've played this guy heads up, and my notes are that he is a moron.....I may have to revisit that! lol

George aka Loretta8's Sunday heads up tournament debut last night. I hope he keeps it going, I really like the HU shootout format. There were 40 runner's, so it led to to some of the bloggers getting a bye in the first round. The downside was that these guys had to start with 1500 chips, to their opponents 3000. I see the reasoning, but I don't think it really makes for a true test of everyone's HU skills. The guys who were short, were obv at a disadvantage. I think the problem was we went over 32, so you have to make sure you get down to a number that will divide all the way down to 2. Not sure how to resolve this, maybe you got to cap it at 32? At any rate, some guy I don't recall seeing won the event, I think his SN was WarriorsXXX, so congrats to him. I managed to make it to the round of 8, and was lucky enough to draw the only other big stack in the host himself. We had a decent a match, until I decided to semi bluff into his nut boat, and that was the end of that.

Finally, this will be the last week of the BBT3. Tonight's game is Mondays at the Hoy. Last chances to win a TOC seat, so everyone come on out!

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FTOPS Final Table recap Video's

Stumbled on to this today.

You can watch a little final table highlights for all the FTOPS final tables, the one in the link, is the one where lilkimmer77, won the Omaha 8 Event #10, with commentary no less from Ali Nejad.



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I won the Donkament!

Good thing too, since I went nuts again with the rebuys! :-0

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BBT3 - Games #45 & 46 Mookie & Riverchasers and more FTOPS

BBT3 is winding down, with only 2 weeks left and 9 more tournaments to get your TOC seat. The latest champ of last nights Riverchasers is Julkeus.

In the Mookie, JD Schellnut took down his 2nd BBT3 tourney, and thus increasing everyone's equity in the TOC. Congrats to both of them on the win.

I played another (actually the last) Super Sat Turbo to the Razz FTOPS last night, and through sheer and masterful donkey-like play, I was able to win it. I did however chicken out, and unregistered, I know my limitations in Razz, and my overall impatience with Limit games. The Super Turbo was awesome though, and if they played the entire FTOPS in a turbo format, then perhaps it would be more interesting to me. Gambler at heart as I've said before. :-)

I also played a regular satellite to the FTOPS #20 6 max tonight, and won my seat. I have unregistered, only because I may have some work related conflict, which may prevent me from playing....else I will be there.

Finally this weekend is the big $2500 2 day FTOPS event which starts tomorrow, and on Sunday the FTOPS main event with a $535 buyin. I saw where Lucky Lucko was thinking about playing in tomorrow's event, and if so, good luck to him, that would be a huge score to take that tourney down. On Sunday, assuming I am done helping my folks move, I plan to play the main event, and I hope to see some of you out there as well. Plenty of satty's running all the time, and as Hoy has mentioned many times, picking the ones where 6+ seats are offered are the better ones to go after. Personally, I've had great success with the $20 rebuys. I usually don't invest more than the initial buyin, 1 rebuy and the addon, and only if I need to. The beauty of these things is that it's a Turbo! if you are observant, you can easily pick up blinds once they start escalating to stay ahead of the crowd. Always know your position, and how many seats are being paid, and don't get involve once you've accumulated enough chips, and can coast to the seat. If they are giving for example 10 seats, and your 2nd in chips, why go up against another top 5 stack which can hurt you, when your on the bubble, or a few seats from the bubble? You have so many short stacks at that point that have to push their crap cards, that there is no reason to take a chance. So give them a shot, sometimes they even run $8 and $10 satty's which are just as good, but may not get as many seats. Usually only 1-3.

Good luck to all this weekend on the virtual felt!

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25K Fulltilt Heads Up Championship

Ok, I want to throw out a wild ass idea..... Is there enough cajones in Bloggerdome, to get one of us donkey's into this tournament???? Say 50 shares @ $500 ea?

Maybe multiple people can get in on one share for those who wish to invest less.

If we can do it, we can then all ""RAIL"" our guy to victory! Think about it!!!! :-))))

Ok, I woke up now. :-(

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