So close...yet so far away...
I played my other $26 satellite token that I won for $4.40. NL Hold'em with 207 entered.
The prize pool consisted of places 1 and 2 win a $1500 seat to an early World Series of Poker event +$500 cash. places 3 to 7 won cash.
I started out playing like poop. On Full Tilt you start with 1500 chips and i managed to get down to 263 chips left and was 128 of 128 left. Then the poker gods looked down upon me. I doubled up about 4 times in 20 minutes and after the first hour at 9pm I was 5th in chips of 97 with 8000 chips.
And here's how it went from there (sorry if this is hard to read...these are my actual notes as I played):
9:16pm UTG raises, 4 callers i have 99 on button flop comes A95 2 diamonds, SB goes all in, UTG reraises all in i call 999 holds up
rank 1 of 88 13006 chips - 2nd has less than 10k
9:30: 4 of 67
KK loses to 22 2 hits flop - 9148 chips
K6 wins 6800 chip pot from SB
9:40 4 of 59 : 12648 chips
bought blinds with KK
9:50 7 of 42 : 12258 chips
10:00 7 of 32: 12133 chips
2nd break 10:05: 13 of 28: 11033 chips left
10:20 20 of 26: 7583 chips
10:40 17 of 18: 5983 chips 400/800 blinds 100 ante
caught 88, 55 then 66 to get up to 18632 chips: 8 of 17
10:50 9 of 13: 16057 chips 500/1000 blinds 125 ante
all in with 33 called by A4 hit my set on flop
10:55 6 of 12: 20489 chips
11:00 7 of 11: 19889 chips
all in AKo against TJo hit K on flop
11:10 8 of 10: 19736 chips
11:15 7 of 10 19136 chips - second break
11:20 7 of 9: 15386 chips
11:30 6 of 7: 18386 chips - In The Money - guaranteed $87 cash
JJ against A5 hit my set
11:35 5 of 6: 36319 chips
11:40 5 of 5: 29719 chips - 1500/3000 ante 400
5th place had 2600 chips...i had 2400 in big blind out...had to call 200 chips with 82 and i made a straight yay
11:50 4 of 4: 31000 (chip leader has 130k chips)
went all in with 22 got called by A3o he hit A on river. Nothing I could do but feel the sting.
I finished in 4th place and got paid $222.64 though :)
My best finish and biggest win so far ...sucks being so close to winning that WSOP seat though.
The prize pool consisted of places 1 and 2 win a $1500 seat to an early World Series of Poker event +$500 cash. places 3 to 7 won cash.
I started out playing like poop. On Full Tilt you start with 1500 chips and i managed to get down to 263 chips left and was 128 of 128 left. Then the poker gods looked down upon me. I doubled up about 4 times in 20 minutes and after the first hour at 9pm I was 5th in chips of 97 with 8000 chips.
And here's how it went from there (sorry if this is hard to read...these are my actual notes as I played):
9:16pm UTG raises, 4 callers i have 99 on button flop comes A95 2 diamonds, SB goes all in, UTG reraises all in i call 999 holds up
rank 1 of 88 13006 chips - 2nd has less than 10k
9:30: 4 of 67
KK loses to 22 2 hits flop - 9148 chips
K6 wins 6800 chip pot from SB
9:40 4 of 59 : 12648 chips
bought blinds with KK
9:50 7 of 42 : 12258 chips
10:00 7 of 32: 12133 chips
2nd break 10:05: 13 of 28: 11033 chips left
10:20 20 of 26: 7583 chips
10:40 17 of 18: 5983 chips 400/800 blinds 100 ante
caught 88, 55 then 66 to get up to 18632 chips: 8 of 17
10:50 9 of 13: 16057 chips 500/1000 blinds 125 ante
all in with 33 called by A4 hit my set on flop
10:55 6 of 12: 20489 chips
11:00 7 of 11: 19889 chips
all in AKo against TJo hit K on flop
11:10 8 of 10: 19736 chips
11:15 7 of 10 19136 chips - second break
11:20 7 of 9: 15386 chips
11:30 6 of 7: 18386 chips - In The Money - guaranteed $87 cash
JJ against A5 hit my set
11:35 5 of 6: 36319 chips
11:40 5 of 5: 29719 chips - 1500/3000 ante 400
5th place had 2600 chips...i had 2400 in big blind out...had to call 200 chips with 82 and i made a straight yay
11:50 4 of 4: 31000 (chip leader has 130k chips)
went all in with 22 got called by A3o he hit A on river. Nothing I could do but feel the sting.
I finished in 4th place and got paid $222.64 though :)
My best finish and biggest win so far ...sucks being so close to winning that WSOP seat though.
