Thursday, August 6, 2009

FTOPS #1 & thoughts on new Fulltilt Client

I played and won a $8 MTT Satellite into FTOPS #1, which played last night. They got 5600+ runners, which for a midweek late night tourney is pretty good. Sadly, I busted about 40 or so short of the $, when I overshoved AK over a very active Donk, who called with 44. He hit a set on the flop, so not even a sweat for me.

I left the tourney lobby open, as I noticed that at the time I went to bed, that MuckDucks who is already an FTOPS champ, and a Cardrunners instructor, was leading the tournament, and wanted to see how he did. He has a video on Cardrunners, where he replays his FTOPS win, I think a 4 part series. Certainly worth watching.

BTW - LJ posted a while back on how you can get free membership to both Cardrunners and SoxPoker by just enrolling here:

At any rate, when I checked the lobby, I noticed that they were five handed at the final table, so I fired it up, and the guys were in the midst of using the new 'Lets Make a Deal' feature.


And here's what they finally agreed to:



I think it's a great feature, and one that I neglected (luckily) to consider when I won the 14K earlier this week.

All in all, I'm quite happy with the features in this latest realease. I was pretty pissed that I had to do my own troubleshooting, as I had huge lag and crash problems. I found that in some cases, (and I don't know why, but this didn't happen on my desktop, just my laptop), the install program puts proxy/scripts in the Internet Lan Connections. Once I unchecked all the garbage, my client was back to working as usual. I still get the graphics issues, but they seem to have diminished.

I may have to put in for a job with them, if for no other reason than to manage their development group, and teach them a thing or two about proper Quality Control!

2BA

Monday, August 3, 2009

14K Winner!!!

Always nice to take one down:



Undoubtedly, this hand was crucial as it propeled me into the lead with about 20 players or so:


I had layed down AQ the previous hand to another all-in by GOSOX20, which I debated with, but ultimately folded. He/She had been getting frisky, and so it was an easy call with the Ladies. I was certainly not happy when Harley also shoved, but thankfully, I was ahead, and most importantly...HELD!!!!!

2BA

Friday, July 31, 2009

Phil Ivey

So I was listening to the ESPN Podcast of 7/30, and Phil Gordon brought up the fact that when there was 2400 players left in the Main Event, Ivey gave Phil 100-1 odds that he would win the Main Event. So Gordon is sweating it, and his wife is not too happy with him, however he mentioned that he wasn't nearly as worried as Andy Bloch.

Today, I see this at Wicked Chops:


I'm sure Mr Ivey has even more of these bets, and probably are alot more than just these 2 who are sweating bullets right about now!

Should provide a nice backdrop to all the festivities in November.

2BA