Going to Las Vegas for MLK weekend. Can't wait... Michael Sachs is already there, and has been for like 3 hours now. Rahul and I are the next ones to arrive, and we don't get in until like 7pm tomorrow. I'm eager to see what Mike can do in the 34 hours that he is there alone.
The others coming are Wendy, Brownpa, Steve, and Jon (first Vegas endeavour with him but I'm looking forward to great things).
I've been looking up the current tournament schedules to try and figure out which ones I want to play in. I think my cap for tournament buy-ins on this trip is going to be like $100 per tournament, although I also might want to try and satellite into bigger ones if those opportunities are there.
Trip report to follow.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
FTOPS Seat
Tonight I won a seat into FTOPS Event #1, which
is a $200 buy-in tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000. 1st place prize money is currently listed at $172,960 although this could go up as more entrants register.
I had to mount a massive comeback to win this seat, because I was in a winner-take-all satellite, and when we were down to 3 players, I was out-chipped like 8-1 by the chip leader. But somehow I battled back to take it down... in one hand he made a huge overbet for all my chips and I made the call with top pair, which held against his flush draw, and in the final hand he called off all his chips on another flush draw after I check-shoved with middle pair. Fortunately for me, this one didn't hit either and I won the seat.
In another tournament tonight, I had a shot at 1st place prize money of about $1,200 but sadly, I busted in 13th.
Lish and I had a good conversation tonight about the role of poker in my life and the world. My thoughts on that are all kind of whirling around right now though so I'll save that for another post.
is a $200 buy-in tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000. 1st place prize money is currently listed at $172,960 although this could go up as more entrants register.
I had to mount a massive comeback to win this seat, because I was in a winner-take-all satellite, and when we were down to 3 players, I was out-chipped like 8-1 by the chip leader. But somehow I battled back to take it down... in one hand he made a huge overbet for all my chips and I made the call with top pair, which held against his flush draw, and in the final hand he called off all his chips on another flush draw after I check-shoved with middle pair. Fortunately for me, this one didn't hit either and I won the seat.
In another tournament tonight, I had a shot at 1st place prize money of about $1,200 but sadly, I busted in 13th.
Lish and I had a good conversation tonight about the role of poker in my life and the world. My thoughts on that are all kind of whirling around right now though so I'll save that for another post.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)