No love in the FTOPS
On a whim I decided to jump in a $26 satellite for Event #1 in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series and managed to win a seat into the $216 event.
The satellite was beautiful as people just decided to give me their chips in the beginning. I doubled up the second hand and then a few hands later took someone else's stack too. I was chip leader for a while and in the top 10 most of the way. got shortstacked with around 20 left but doubled up at key times and managed to finish in the top 8 for a seat :)
The tournament itself started out well and got my starting stack of 3000 quickly up to 3900. And then everything went to hell. Two orbits in a row I raise from the cutoff and the button calls. First time I have 88. I forget how it exactly went down but it was like a KJT63 board by the end and I folded to a river bet. Next orbit I raise with KJ and button calls again. Flop J85. Turns out button has set of 5s and my stack is now down to about 2400.
Hover around there a while as blinds go up to 50/100. I get JJ UTG+1. CO and BB call. Flop QT9. BB checks, I decide I'm making a stand bet the pot, CO raises, BB folds, I call the rest of my stack off. CO shows AQ and it holds up. I really don't know how to play that one. Ranges of the other players are large and if I play it weak I won't know where I stand or get bullied. Do I just push in and hope AQ folds? Don't think he's going to fold since he had twice my stack. Oh well I finished around 1200 out of almost 1900 players so there was a ways to go.
I'll do better next time. I haven't played the $11 rebuy in a couple nights but Wednesday night I did finish like 99th and cashed for $106.
I also finished off the Chiptalk Quarter strongly with a 5th place finish as well as our challenge team had 5 players at the final table and we won the 3 team challenge :)
Hopefully I'll play the $11 rebuy tomorrow. I probably won't try any of the other FTOPS tourneys.
The satellite was beautiful as people just decided to give me their chips in the beginning. I doubled up the second hand and then a few hands later took someone else's stack too. I was chip leader for a while and in the top 10 most of the way. got shortstacked with around 20 left but doubled up at key times and managed to finish in the top 8 for a seat :)
The tournament itself started out well and got my starting stack of 3000 quickly up to 3900. And then everything went to hell. Two orbits in a row I raise from the cutoff and the button calls. First time I have 88. I forget how it exactly went down but it was like a KJT63 board by the end and I folded to a river bet. Next orbit I raise with KJ and button calls again. Flop J85. Turns out button has set of 5s and my stack is now down to about 2400.
Hover around there a while as blinds go up to 50/100. I get JJ UTG+1. CO and BB call. Flop QT9. BB checks, I decide I'm making a stand bet the pot, CO raises, BB folds, I call the rest of my stack off. CO shows AQ and it holds up. I really don't know how to play that one. Ranges of the other players are large and if I play it weak I won't know where I stand or get bullied. Do I just push in and hope AQ folds? Don't think he's going to fold since he had twice my stack. Oh well I finished around 1200 out of almost 1900 players so there was a ways to go.
I'll do better next time. I haven't played the $11 rebuy in a couple nights but Wednesday night I did finish like 99th and cashed for $106.
I also finished off the Chiptalk Quarter strongly with a 5th place finish as well as our challenge team had 5 players at the final table and we won the 3 team challenge :)
Hopefully I'll play the $11 rebuy tomorrow. I probably won't try any of the other FTOPS tourneys.
