Urm.... Ship it?
Biggest win to date, but do I play in the World Series or take the $12,000?:
I really want to head over to Vegas and play but given that I'm in the red so far this year I can't really justify not taking the $12,000 in cash. It looks as though I'll have to win more seats!
I'm knackered now. It was a rollercoaster of a tournament. Those Step 6 SNGs are crammed full of sharks. Despite starting with twice the usual nuber of chips, by the time we were down to 9 players from the starting 12, even the biggest of stacks had only two moves: all-in or fold. In all honesty, that was probably a good thing as it removed a lot of the edge that the better players had over me and turned everything into a preflop gamble.
It's all a bit of a blur at the moment, but I seem to remember playing pretty tight early on. I got involved in a couple of 'real hands' (i.e. it wasn't just 'push and hope' preflop): I floated one guy and took a nice medium pot off him only then a couple of hands later I decided to make a hero call with Ace high to be shown the nut straight!
From then on in it was all pre-flop poker. I doubled up with QQ against TT and then got ionvolved in numerous preflop encounters where I yo-yo'd up and down. It seemd that anyone who went in with the best hand was destined to loose. I can't rememebr the number of times I lost with the best hand only to come back from a short stack and win with the worst hand.
When we got four handed I lost a cruital pot with AQ against QQ, but when we were down to the final three (two seats awarded), I got my stack in with QT against AT and the board to ran out TxxxQ.
That cripled the third place player leaving him with only a couple of big blinds , but somehow he managed to double up twice and he and I ended up with similar stack sizes.
I just about managed to keep afloat and in the end the big stack pushed in with TT and shorty called with AT. AT was drawing dead by the turn and I was already dancing round the room!
Enough of this post. I'm going to look for flights to vegas!
I really want to head over to Vegas and play but given that I'm in the red so far this year I can't really justify not taking the $12,000 in cash. It looks as though I'll have to win more seats!
I'm knackered now. It was a rollercoaster of a tournament. Those Step 6 SNGs are crammed full of sharks. Despite starting with twice the usual nuber of chips, by the time we were down to 9 players from the starting 12, even the biggest of stacks had only two moves: all-in or fold. In all honesty, that was probably a good thing as it removed a lot of the edge that the better players had over me and turned everything into a preflop gamble.
It's all a bit of a blur at the moment, but I seem to remember playing pretty tight early on. I got involved in a couple of 'real hands' (i.e. it wasn't just 'push and hope' preflop): I floated one guy and took a nice medium pot off him only then a couple of hands later I decided to make a hero call with Ace high to be shown the nut straight!
From then on in it was all pre-flop poker. I doubled up with QQ against TT and then got ionvolved in numerous preflop encounters where I yo-yo'd up and down. It seemd that anyone who went in with the best hand was destined to loose. I can't rememebr the number of times I lost with the best hand only to come back from a short stack and win with the worst hand.
When we got four handed I lost a cruital pot with AQ against QQ, but when we were down to the final three (two seats awarded), I got my stack in with QT against AT and the board to ran out TxxxQ.
That cripled the third place player leaving him with only a couple of big blinds , but somehow he managed to double up twice and he and I ended up with similar stack sizes.
I just about managed to keep afloat and in the end the big stack pushed in with TT and shorty called with AT. AT was drawing dead by the turn and I was already dancing round the room!
Enough of this post. I'm going to look for flights to vegas!
posted by Pinky @ 3:24 AM
4 Comments:
At 6:42 PM,
Karl said…
Ha ha! Awesome buddy. Luck or no luck you deserved it. A lot of those guys are high stakes regulars! GG!
At 2:48 PM,
Anonymous said…
Good result. Is that a buy in to the main event plus $2000 for expenses? i look at these sats all the time and some of the european events are shit, truth be told. €700 expenses for the Prague open is a bit poor if you ask me. i personally think the sites should be giving out a bit more.
At 5:41 AM,
Robert "Animal" Price said…
only just realised my link wasnt working to your site so have moved it now to correct it. n1 on the package and yeh play it play it u know u want to :) can guaranteed piss easy field compared to that final qualifier by the sounds of it !!! Isnt there $1,000 of accomdation u lose if u dont take package and dont u get 100,000vps or whatever if u use the money for the main event. Surely reasons to play it !
At 12:42 PM,
Pinky said…
Animal,
You don't loose the $1000 for accomodation - you can take the cash if you want, but you're right about the 100,000 FPP. They're worth at least $1000 themselves. Added to that, I'll probably be SuperNova by the time the ME comes round which means they upgrade your accomodation to a suite.
I just need to win another one!
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