| I was looking at a giant pot, a chance to flirt with the chip lead. For once, however, the great luck went someone else's way. I did, however, get a familiar face to complain to. Early in the 12-240 round, I got K-K in the big blind. jpo123 made it read more |
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| We're at the second break. I have 21,084 chips, good for 13th, though we're about 7-8 hours from that being meaningful. There are 356 players left, and the average stack 8,500. The next level is 120-240 (25 ante), so the average stack is still more th read more |
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| We are at the 80-160 level. I have been cruising on some very good cards. I was going to wait until the next break to update you, but it's hard to imagine the breaks going my way any MORE than they are now. Average chips are 7,000. There are 426 play read more |
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| There were 703 entrants initially. 527 remain. There were 811 rebuys and 366 add-ons. The average is 5,687. The prize pool is just over $375,0200. 72 will be paid. Bottom-money gets $850 or so. First place gets over $90,000. I am hanging tough. read more |
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| Tonight's event is relatively new territory for Full Tilt Poker, No-Limit Hold 'Em but with $200 rebuys. As with the PLO rebuy event, the initial entries soared over the guarantee, which will of course lead to a prize pool several times that of the guar read more |
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| This week marks the first anniversary of what I consider the greatest poker game ever played. It was a heads-up match between Andy Beal and Ted Forrest on February 14, 2006 at Wynn Las Vegas. I wrote about it in the April 2006 issue of BLUFF, as part o read more |
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| In entry #008, I described in some detail a hand that Mike Matusow played in the first FTOPS event, raising to steal with 9h-6h, then calling an all-in re-raise from one of the blinds. I haven't spoken to Mike about the hand (though I may when I see him read more |
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| I tried to do a little research on Full Tilt the other night, checking out the rebuy tournaments. I learned a lot ' including about some things having nothing to do with rebuy tournaments ' and made some new friends. I also made an enemy or two, but li read more |
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| My computer's internet connection needed a repair during the third break. I apologize for not giving you an update at that time, but the main victim was ME. I was deprived the opportunity of telling you how I went from under 800 chips to 8,000. I coul read more |
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| We are at the second break in the Omaha EOB FTOPS event. Mike Matusow, the host, has been playing conservative, always showing down quality cards. The problem is, he hasn't gotten very many of them. He's hanging in with 2,600 after 2 hours. For the f read more |
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