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FTOPS 2 Final Update on the HORSE

The Beauty of it all

Plus besoin de mon 13

FTOPS Main Event A

The Main Event is starting.

Full Tilt Poker hit its guarantee, over 3,000 entries.

Clonie Gowen is sitting in my office playing as I play.

(We are both also entered in the Mulligan.) We have three different internet connections between us - my home wireless, the Verizon wireless on my back-up computer, and Clonie's Sprint wireless on her computer - but she can't stay connected.

Not my fault; we don't even have a last-longer bet.

3,217 started in this tournament.

25 Full Tilt pros in the field.

459 will be paid.

Bottom dollar gets $723.82.

Final-table money starts at more than $21,000.

Top-3 dough is fantasyland stuff: $114,000, $175,000, $288,000.

People win bracelets and make less than that.

Clonie is over 6,500, fast.

She raised with K-K and got called from behind.

The flop came K-4-2.

She bet small ("I hope he comes over the top") and was called.

The turn brought another 4 for a full house.

"I'm going to check and hope he bets." He checked.

After a jack on the river, Clonie bet a little less than half the pot and got called.

The other player had 2-5s.

A few hands later:

"I have king-queen of hearts in the cut-off.

I'm going to raise it .

no, there's a limper under the gun.

I'm going to limp.

No, I'm going to pot it - no, I'll limp.

I'm always worried about that limp under the gun, and I'll still have position." She limps and the player behind her makes it 200.

"Ruh-roh."

Clonie does Scooby-Doo? "Yeah, I always do that."

She folds.

Later, I'll explain WHY Clonie Gowen is playing poker in my office, as well as my secret plan to abscond her on a multi-state poker spree that will include some combination of the Harrah's Rincon WSOP Circuit championship, The WTP Commerce Main Event, some prelim events at the Wynn Classic, and the Heads-Up Championship.

Now I just have to figure out how to get into some of those tournaments, how to afford the others, and how to get Clonie Gowen to be my accomplice.

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